Welcome to the month of May. A mother’s month, in more ways than one! In May, so many events get plugged into the end of the school year: athletic finals, concerts, dance recitals, awards ceremonies and graduations, to name a few. And then planning for the summer and the future…
Depending on your personal triggers, you can experience seasonal allergies all year round, especially in Florida. Allergy symptoms are simply immune system reactions. For example, a fever is your immune system’s response to the flu when your body is fighting a virus. You get seasonal allergy symptoms and the inflammation…
Early breastfeeding is like learning to dance with a new partner. It’s intimate, there’s a bit (or a lot) of “stepping” on each other and you tend to get sore if you’re not doing it quite right. There’s still a learning curve for even second-, third- or fourth-time moms because…
Growing bodies have immature immune systems; therefore, kids get sick more often than adults do. The regular exposure to “germs” when we’re little helps build immune systems that recognize and defeat illnesses later in life. Most childhood illnesses are common, natural and necessary for correct immune system development. Described below…
When we started CIPC’s monthly newsletter back in February of 2016, we asked Dr. C to write down all the nutrition tips he could think up. That list subsequently got turned into 6 articles when we were stumped for topics! Dr. C was known for educating parents; it was one…
If you missed any of our most popular articles, get yourself a nice mug of tea or hot cocoa and enjoy catching up. We hope the information we provide empowers you to help your family facilitate and celebrate the blessing of good health. 1. ADD/ADHD: A Chinese Medicine Perspective 2….
Juice Plus+ helps you bridge the gap between what you should eat and what you do eat, every day, with added nutrition from a wide variety of plant-based ingredients. It is the most thoroughly studied supplement on the planet, with over 40 peer-reviewed scientific studies published in prestigious journals. Twenty-one…
Not that we don’t enjoy seeing our patients, but our first responsibility is to prevent ill health to begin with! Here are some simple habits that can help keep you and your family out of the doctor’s office. Get 8 hours of sleep every night. Exercise at least 3 times…
We should be concerned with brain health at all ages, not just when we begin to experience cognitive decline! Your brain serves you in so many ways (many of them unconscious)—by keeping your heart beating and lungs breathing, storing your memories, coordinating all body movements by the millisecond, enabling speech,…
Children experience a lot of change during the pre-teen middle school years. Their workload becomes heavier and so do their social activities. They become more aware of their own autonomy and their self-esteem evolves. And let’s not forget the onset and effects of burgeoning hormones! The same parenting styles that…
There are many reasons for your child’s annual physical exam to be ranked as priority #1 each year. Taking a medical history in person at least once per year is an important part of the prevention and/or early detection and intervention for myriad health conditions. It doesn’t matter if your…
Outstanding readers, it’s time for another edition of Dr. C’s food rules for eating healthfully! We asked Dr. Cannizzaro to compile a list of his top tips. Occasionally, we bring out the list of tips and prepare a handful of them for you with a short explanation. We hope you…
Looking after a child’s mental health has become a recurring topic of concern for our patients and their families for the past fifteen months. During this time, we’ve all had to adjust, readjust and be resilient to retain some sense of normality (and some sense of humor as well). Now…
It seems too simple to be true. Halotherapy (salt therapy) can be used for myriad conditions such as asthma, allergies, colds, eczema, flu and stress. Yet salt has been used therapeutically for thousands of years and appears in ancient texts including the Bible. Even Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine,…
Before COVID, we had a pre-existing health crisis in the U.S.—a chronic complex disease epidemic. Years ago, it was infectious disease and before—way back in the 1800s—it was vitamin deficiency. Now it’s cancer, heart disease and diabetes—all preventable because the number-one cause of these conditions is diet. According to the…
Cold and flu season generally occurs from October through May in the US, with a peak between December and February. There are many things that you can do to support your body and maintain your health throughout cold and flu season. What’s the difference between a cold and the flu?…
If you’re alive, you have stress. Isn’t that an understatement lately?! As the world continues to be a bit topsy-turvy, it’s worth taking a few minutes each day to mitigate the effects of stress on your mind, body and soul. Toward that effort, we’ve compiled a large list of stress…
If you missed any of our most popular articles, get yourself a nice mug of tea or hot cocoa and enjoy catching up. We hope the information we provide empowers you to help your family facilitate and celebrate the blessing of good health. 1. Psychoeducational Evaluation: 3 Tips for Parents…
A unique source of parenting tips can be found from an ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) system called “The Five Elements.” Recognizing the personality types derived from this ancient system can help parents create a smoother, more fun family dynamic. Chinese Medicine practitioners refer to five primal forces or archetypes…
Who would have thought on New Year’s Eve 2019 that we were ushering in the most harrowing and bizarre year that most of us have ever lived through? The year 2020 has had us guessing from almost the very start. Though each of us has been affected in some way,…
Since COVID appeared, there have been no easy answers—especially those of the health variety. Now that the school year has begun, we pray you and your family can settle in and feel confident about the decision you have made about fall school attendance. We have been encouraging our families to…
You may have heard about CBD whether for oral or topical use. It’s one of Mother Nature’s medicines and may help alleviate symptoms of certain conditions. So, we thought we’d give you a brief overview of what it is, how it works and what it’s typically used for. What is…
Our salt room has been open and helping patients since January of 2018. We thought we’d take the time to answer a few of the most common questions about it. What does a salt room do? A salt room is a special spa-like room with salt-coated walls and floor. It…
In this interview, popular holistic physician Dr. Christiane Northrup shares her top 10 tips for women’s health: Get enough sleep: Proper sleep is essential for optimal health, and it helps metabolize stress hormones better than any other known entity. Meditate for at least 3-12 minutes each day, to calm and…
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