Yes, most appointments can be done virtually, but I would like to see you at least once in person in my office, if possible. goes here

I do not take insurance for visits. Some labs are covered under insurance and the other labs are priced at a reduced rate. Though I can provide the paperwork with ICD-10 codes upon request that you can file with your insurance company, there is no guarantee on my part that insurance will cover treatment. Medicare does not allow you to file for the visits since my visits are cash pay.

Yes, weight is a symptom that the body is not functioning in a balanced manner. My approach is to determine any underlying causes as chronic overweight is typically not just overeating.

Your metabolism, the way your body processes energy from food, has several contributing factors.  Exercise is stressful to the body, and if there are physiological stressors in your environment, then some exercise could be working against you..

How can I stabilize my weight? If you restricted your calories too much, then your body may have held onto fat mass and used muscle mass for energy. Losing muscle mass reduces how many calories you burn per day and this results in weight regain. I may recommend a weight training regimen to help build muscles.

Pre-diabetes means you are in a stage where your pancreas is struggling to process glucose. Excess body fat causes all hormones to down-regulate and as a result, your pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to process glucose. People can be pre-diabetic for 5-10 years before an official diagnosis of diabetes.

Biotoxin illness or mold illness, is the same as chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS).  CIRS can be triggered by mold, bacteria, fungi, and toxins from bugs and spiders. CIRS causes an overactive immune response to toxins and ultimately affects the central nervous system.

You can go to survivingmold.com and take the Visual Contrast Sensitivity Test (VCS). It is under “resources for patients”.  Failures in column C and D of the test indicate that biotoxins are affecting your system. This screening test along with lab testing and your medical history will determine diagnosis.  If you do not pass the VCS and you have mold exposure, then this warrants a medical work up. The cost for the VCS test is $15.00.

I often use a test called a neuroquant, or NQ, an FDA-approved  brain imaging metric to assess areas of inflammation or atrophy using MRI testing. Most CIRS symptoms are neurological and the NQ is the best objective measure of central nervous system injury from CIRS. 

No, urine tests only show exposure and do not detect an inflammatory response.  Two key aspects of CIRS are: an inability to clear toxins from the body naturally and an inflammatory response to biotoxins.  The systemic inflammatory response leads to a multi-system set of symptoms, most of which are neurological ie: memory, focus, concentration, word recall, headaches, fatigue, and insomnia.

There is information on survivingmold.com and cirsx.com