Mold exposure can cause sleep problems, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, and confusion. Do you suspect mold in your home or office? Having mold in your home and mold exposure won’t necessarily make you sick, but it does have the potential to cause specific health issues. Is it time to have a mold exposure treatment? If you follow our blog, you may recognize a familiar theme in the title of this post. In 2019, we wrote about mold outbreaks at the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa and at the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center in St. Petersburg. We wrote that these were “chronic, recurring mold outbreaks that are literally making military personnel and their family members, patients, and treatment providers sick.” Then just last year, we posted an update about five military families that filed a class-action lawsuit against owners and managers of private housing at MacDill. Like mold […]
Women’s Health
While few people would consider burnout to be a medical condition, we at BioDesign Wellness Center know it to be a root cause of far too many doctor visits. Unfortunately, when visiting a traditional medical practice and general practitioner (GP), these visits rarely provide patients with the relief they seek. According to the American Psychological Association, burnout is “physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion accompanied by decreased motivation, lower performance, and negative attitudes towards oneself and others.” If these symptoms describe how you’re feeling, you’re not alone. More and more people are suffering from burnout than ever before, and it is no surprise. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing political and social unrest, intensifying international conflicts, concerns over climate change, and rising inflation, along with personal and work-related challenges, people have far more stress to deal with than in even the recent past. Unfortunately, conventional medicine does not consider burnout to
Understanding Your Treatment Options for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) If you or a loved one are experiencing insomnia, anxiety, and/or severe fatigue before your period starts, and those symptoms come with vomiting, acne, or heart palpitations, among other things, you may be suffering from premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and considering to try functional medicine approach in Tampa, FL. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a health condition similar to, but more serious than, premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Symptoms of PMDD — which tend to occur one to two weeks before a period starts and end two to three days after a period starts — fall into broad categories, including psychological, gastrointestinal, respiratory, dermatological, vascular, and neurologic. Conventional medical treatments for PMDD include antidepressants, birth control pills, pain relievers, and, believe it or not, hysterectomies. However, these typically provide only partial or temporary relief at best and often cause other health issues, including sexual
Breast augmentation is a big business. Each year, hundreds of thousands of women undergo breast implant surgery at an average cost between $5,000 and $10,000. But that’s just the start-up fee. Add to that the potential cost of having to remove them, replace them, and treat the many illnesses the surgery may cause. Looking for a breast implant illness doctor in Tampa, FL? That’s when the financial cost can soar to the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient. Not to mention the pain and suffering of those who have negative experiences. For many years, plastic surgeons have justified their support for breast implants based on the dubious claim that there was insufficient evidence linking implants to any serious health conditions. But the basis for their argument is starting to erode as more and more studies reveal the truth — that breast implants are not only big
Are you one of the women that has sleep apnea & looking for hormone therapy in Tampa, FL? It’s bad enough that you just binge-watched the first seven episodes of the fourth season of “Ozark,” and you’re suffering serious sleep deprivation issues because of it. Now you find out the second — and final — seven episodes are scheduled for release ahead of time. At the end of April! That’s hardly enough time to catch up on your sleep. Exacerbating that situation is the fact that you already suffer disruptions in your sleep due to breathing issues on a regular basis shortly after your head hits the pillow. Maybe you shouldn’t blame all those sleepless nights on Netflix’s hit crime thriller. Perhaps it’s time to look at physical issues rather than the TV remote. Sleep apnea is a chronic and potentially serious health condition characterized by abnormal periods of breathing
In some cities and towns in New York and California, walking into a restaurant without a COVID-19 vaccination card might get you booted out. No vaccine in some establishments means no soup for you! This is sad but certainly not surprising. Why? Because the natural immunity conferred upon a person infected with a new virus was pretty much ignored or even denied for the last two years. Ignored by policymakers. Ignored by many media outlets. Ignored by big pharma. Even ignored by many physicians. As a result, if you contracted the virus named “SARS-CoV-2” and the disease it causes, named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and your immune system produced antibodies to fight it, that wasn’t considered sufficient protection to get you a pass into your favorite restaurant. By local mandate in some jurisdictions, you were still required to get vaccinated. Fortunately, a growing body of evidence is turning the tide,