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The Domino Effect of an Imbalanced Thyroid - Your Answer to Many Health Questions
Thyroid conditions Jim Chialtas, DACM Thyroid conditions Jim Chialtas, DACM

The Domino Effect of an Imbalanced Thyroid - Your Answer to Many Health Questions

The Thyroid System is complex and significant.  It promotes cellular activity, helps us to be happy, healthy, and energetic.  It allows our immune system and brain to operate well.  It influences how our sex hormones operate and how much weight we carry.  The trouble is understanding it.  In this article I describe the Thyroid system and its subtle factors that, when missed, may just be the difference between success and failure to pull a person back into balance.

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Fitbit Captures Patient Recovery
Autoimmunity Jim Chialtas, DACM Autoimmunity Jim Chialtas, DACM

Fitbit Captures Patient Recovery

I wanted to take a moment and share a recent case study that I find to be particularly interesting.  Most of the time when I work with a patient we start with a set of symptoms or even a known medical condition.  Some tests are ordered, results observed and a plan of action is set in motion.  An improvement in symptoms, and/or a follow up test weeks or months later tells us if our efforts were effective.  But an interesting thing is starting to happen.  My patients are coming in wearing a Fitbit or some other handy device that measures all sorts of things about their daily physiology.  This provides for both of us some powerful feedback in real time as to how the strategies we are employing are actually working.  The basis of this piece is in regards to just such a patient experience. 

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A Body Fighting Against Itself
Autoimmunity Jim Chialtas, DACM Autoimmunity Jim Chialtas, DACM

A Body Fighting Against Itself

Probably one of the most up and coming of serious medical problems facing Americans today is auto-immunity. An auto-immune condition is one in which the immune system works to attack a particular tissue in the body. This problem can lead to a huge variety of disorders including Type I Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hashimoto’s (auto-immune thyroid), and many many more. The title of this article is actually two fold. It points out that not only are our bodies fighting against themselves, but the medical establishment, and the population as a whole is also caught up in a system that is working towards self destruction.

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