Blog of Dr. Brent Caplan & Dr. Tiffany Caplan
Taking charge of your health begins with understanding. Check out the inspiring content from our doctors at Central Coast Center for Integrative Health on how you can restore your health for a better future…
Continuous Glucose Monitor: More Than Just a Blood Sugar Device
Surprising New Uses for a Continuous Glucose Monitor—Whether You’re Diabetic or Not You might have heard of continuous glucose monitors. As the name implies, they track blood sugar throughout the day and night. They’re more convenient than a finger-stick blood glucose...
Natural Solutions for Psoriatic Arthritis that Really Work
Natural Psoriatic Arthritis Treatments from a Functional Medicine Provider Psoriatic arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes not only the red, scaly patches of skin typical of psoriasis, but also inflammatory joint pain. While conventional treatments such as...
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...
Estrogen Dominance – How Much is Too Much Estrogen?
What is Estrogen? Estrogen is one of the sex hormones important in reproductive and sexual health in women and men. Estrogen, along with progesterone, regularly change over the course of a woman’s life during menstruation and menopause. When estrogen is produced in...