By Sarah A LoBisco, ND Due to the aging baby boom population, “sandwich” generation members, who are taking care of their parents while tending to their own children, are on the rise. These middle-agers are not only witnessing their parent’s distress from their illness, but are personally impacted emotionally and physically by it. “Double caregivers” [...]
A New Hormone Study Hits Headlines and Backlash Begins Again By Sarah A LoBisco, ND The past few weeks, I’ve been filling my brain with reading research studies on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HT) and re-listening to my trainings from the Institute of Functional Medicine. It’s definitely a very broad topic and functional medicine is not [...]
By Sarah LoBisco, ND Back in the spring, I discussed the confusion among experts and the public alike regarding the link between the use of hormones and cancer risk. At that time, new data was released from an analysis of an additional subset of 90,000 women from the original population of the Women’s Health Imitative [...]
By Sarah A LoBisco, ND I had the distinct privilege of interviewing actress Megan Cavanagh regarding her role as Earth Mother in GFour Productions’ Menopause the Musical. I wanted to get Megan’s perspective on the musical, her character, and her thoughts on “the change” that might have influenced her portrayal. I was specifically interested in [...]
By Sarah A LoBisco, ND Last week, I made reference to the fact that I got side-tracked from my monthly task of “Top Reads”. Now, it’s time to share why! My brain lapse was due to an email containing four videos on the science of BodyTalk received from a fantastic and gifted BodyTalk Practitioner. In [...]
By Sarah A LoBisco, ND The Science of Belief and the Placebo Effect My recent blog on the science of belief discussed the role of belief and expectations on healing. This means that what we think or expect from a medical intervention will have physiological effects on our body. The role of thought processes in [...]
By Sarah A LoBisco, ND I’ve had the pleasure of tuning into The HayHouse World Summit, an online event that featured 110 inspirational authors within a 10 day span. The speakers included Dr. Bruce Lipton, PhD, Marcelle Pick, M.S.N., OB/GYN NP, Mark Hyman, MD, Lissa Rankin, MD, Dr. Northrup, MD, Deepak Chopra, Dr. Joe Dispenza, [...]
Compiled by Sarah A LoBisco, ND I’m back from Texas. What a trip into the energy spectrum I had. Now, after the extraordinary opportunity of spending time with some of the most prestigious and respected integrative doctors in my field, I am filled with even more conviction that our genes are not our destiny. We [...]
By Sarah A LoBisco, ND Before I head off to Dallas for the Institute for Functional Medicine’s 2013 Annual Symposium, Illuminating the Energy Spectrum, I couldn’t help but leave you with the top story headliner for next week’s May 2013 Holistic Health Top Reads! That’s right. Next week, while flying back from my training, I’ll [...]
