Blog of Dr. Brent Caplan & Dr. Tiffany Caplan
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Frequently Asked Questions About Functional Medicine
What Is Functional Medicine? Part 2 Are you struggling with an autoimmune disease and want better treatment options and better results? A lot of people have heard about functional medicine but don’t know how it is different from the care they get at their conventional...
What Is a Functional Medicine Doctor?
What Is Functional Medicine? Part 1 So, you have an autoimmune disease or some other health condition and you’ve heard that functional medicine can help. But what is functional medicine and what is a functional medicine doctor? How does it differ from conventional...
A Functional Medicine Approach to Winter Dehydration and Indoor Allergies
We often don’t think about becoming dehydrated in the winter. It’s cold outside, we don’t get as thirsty, and we don’t sweat as much. Hot summer days are when we expect to become dehydrated. Dehydration in winter might take you by surprise, and low fluid intake at...
How To Eat Healthy While on Vacation
How to Eat Healthy While Traveling — Tips and Tricks for People on the Go With summer here, a lot of my patients are asking how to eat healthy on vacation. Let’s face it, avoiding unhealthy foods while on a trip isn’t always easy. While walking past a bakery, you...
Do Hormones Affect Weight Loss?
Can Hormone Imbalance Cause Weight Gain? So you need to lose weight. You start dieting and exercising, but nothing happens. The weight doesn’t budge. You’re thinking “I can’t lose weight no matter what I do.” It’s frustrating, I know. Here’s the problem. Your...
How to Get Rid of Seasonal Allergies
How to Get Rid of Hay Fever for Good As we approach spring, many of my patients suffer from the frustrating red itchy eyes, runny nose, coughing and sneezing that signal the arrival of seasonal allergies, or hay fever as they’re also called. It’s especially common...