Dr. Mark Stengler selected as Top Doctor of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP)
Press Release – Encinitas, CA – 09/09/2019
Dr. Mark Stengler recognized Amongst Top 50 functional and integrative Medical Doctors!
Dr. Axe recognizes top 50 functional and integrative medicine physicians!
Raise your hand if you’ve ever gone to the doctor, weren’t seen on time and then spent just a few minutes with your doctor before being ushered out? Or perhaps your health care provider sent you home with a few new prescriptions and no real explanation as to why your health was suffering?
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Ozone Therapy & Viral Treatments: Flu, Hepatitis
We’ve spent a lot of time talking about oxidization and oxygen efficiency because it’s a topic that we consider to be very important!
Ozone Therapy: What It Is And Why It Works
Testing the amount of oxygen you take in and the carbon dioxide you breathe out can tell us how efficiently you use oxygen. When you use oxygen really efficiently, you breathe out less CO2.
Oxidation and Energy: What Do They Have In Common?
Watch Dr. Mark Stengler interview natural health expert, Dr. Frank Shallenberger, about oxidation and energy production.
Sarcopenia, the Muscle Wasting Disease
The loss of muscle mass as one ages is a major risk to one’s health.
One Minute With Dr. Stengler: What Is Inflammation?
We’ve all heard of Inflammation, but what is it really?
New Book: Prescription for Natural Cures, Third Edition
The team that created the highly popular Prescription for Natural Cures now brings us a revised and refined third edition.
VIDEO: Weight Gain, Poor Memory, and Fatigue
In this video, Dr. Stengler discusses causes and limiting factors that cause weight gain, poor memory, and fatigue, and lists out some natural appetite suppressants and natural remedies for these symptoms.
VIDEO: Natural Treatments for Sinusitis
Do people who have chronic sinusitis typically get flare-ups?
Fish Oil Memory Study Was a Scam
A recent study headlined in our medically-illiterate media proclaimed that fish oil was ineffective for improving memory.
Alternatives For Acid Reflux
One in 14 persons in the United States are taking Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) medications for acid reflux, also known as Gastroesophageal Reflux (GERD).
Interesting Holistic Treatment for Crohn’s Disease
Crohn’s Disease is an inflammatory bowel disease characterized by abdominal pain, diarrhea, blood in the stool, and weight loss. Over the years I have found that nutritional and holistic methods can help people with this disease quite effectively. However, there are always those who require additional treatment.
Oxidized LDL Cholesterol: The Better Heart Risk Indicator
What is LDL Cholesterol?
LDL (Low-Density Lipoprotein) Cholesterol plays many important functions in our body: transporting antioxidants, building muscles, and fighting infection.
Be Wary of New Frankenstein Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
Be wary of a new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as PCSK9 inhibitors. They will certainly be promoted as the new wonder drugs for cardiovascular disease and prevention.
What is a Carb? The Skinny on Carbohydrates
Patients often ask me to better identify how to consume healthy carbs and the right amounts in their diet. Americans have caught on that refined carbohydrates are a big factor for the weight and diabetes problem in America.
Chinese Ginseng: A Super Natural Health Herb
Ginseng has always been one of the top selling herbs. This makes sense as fatigue and “stress” are universal health problems that people use ginseng for. The ginsengs are great examples of what we call “adpatogens.”
When To Worry About Your Blood Pressure
Healthy blood pressure is about more than just hitting a certain target. It’s about consistency.
Is Low Blood Sugar Affecting Your Relationship?
A recent study at Ohio State University, investigated the relationship between anger and blood sugar in 107 couples. The researchers found that people were angrier at their spouse when their blood sugar levels were lower.
Vitamin D: The Sun’s Supervitamin
Vitamin D has many benefits, including supporting a healthy immune system, controlling inflammation of the body, and even weight loss. Most chronic diseases, if not all of them, are related to chronic inflammation.
The Connection Between Poor Sleep and Weight Gain
If you find the biggest roadblock to your diet is willpower, welcome to the club.
Pumpkin Seed Oil For Urinary Incontinence
Urinary incontinence, or the inability to control urination, is a troublesome condition for 60 percent of women and 15 percent of males over the age of 65.
Glucosamine For Joints
Glucosamine is a common supplement used for treating osteoarthritis of the joints. Two significant studies were conducted at the University of Liege, Belgium, where researchers used digitial x-rays to precisely measure knee cartilage in patients with osteoarthritis. After taking 1,500 mg of glucosamine daily for...
Statins and Diabetes: A Deadly Connection
There’s no doubt about it: Statin drugs can cause diabetes, and the risk is so strong that even the FDA has issued a warning over it.
Natural Therapies For Cancer-Related Fatigue
The stress of dealing with cancer and the conventional therapies associated with it such as chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery can be overwhelming.
Why Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) Is Important In Heart Surgery
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is an important supplement for people scheduled for some type of heart surgery. One of the major causes of death after a heart operation is low cardiac output.
How Diabetes Damages Your Brain
Diabetes and dementia are so closely linked that Alzheimer’s disease is sometimes referred to as “type 3 diabetes.” But while the risk is real, having diabetes doesn’t mean you’re doomed to dementia.
One Minute With Dr. Stengler | Are You Getting Enough Out Of Your Cholesterol Testing?
Most likely, you have had cholesterol testing at a physical, but are you getting enough information to truly give you insight into your cardiovascular health?
Testosterone Replacement
Testosterone replacement therapy was found once again to be safe for men and their prostate health. This newer study is one of several in recent years demonstrating no link between prostate cancer and testosterone replacement.
2 Nutrients That Can Cut Your Diabetes Risk
If most folks know anything about beta-carotene, it’s that this nutrient found in carrots can protect the eyes and help save your vision.
But it could save something even more precious: Your life.
Chamomile Tea: The Secret Brew That Could Add Years To Your Life
There’s no better way to end the day than with a piping hot cup of chamomile tea, and not just because it can help you unwind.
New research shows it could save your life.
One Minute with Dr. Stengler | How Long Should Bioidentical Hormones Be Taken?
How long should you take bioidentical hormones?
The Paleo Diet: Is It For You?
There is a lot of information about the best diets out there today. Depending on which expert you’re talking to, the “ideal plan” ranges from low carb to vegetarian to one of today’s most popular plans, The Paleo Diet.
Vitamin E Can Protect Your Lungs
You don’t have to be a smoker to get a lungful of toxins with every breath – all you have to do is live in a city, by a factory, or even near a highway. All are major sources of lung-damaging pollution, and that means nearly all of us are exposed every single day.
Hypothyroidism | One Minute With Dr. Stengler
Your thyroid produces thyroid hormones, which control all of the metabolic activity in all of your cells.
Vitamin D May Speed Up Weight Loss
When you’re trying to lose weight, you hear plenty about eating right and getting exercise. Those are both important, of course, but there’s more to it than that. Hormones and nutrition can play a major role in how much weight you lose or even whether you...
Pollution Linked to Dementia
Living near a major road or highway might be great for a quicker commute, but it can also speed the aging process in your brain and put you in the express lane for dementia.
Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy: What & Why
You may have heard a lot about hormone replacement therapy, or bioidentical hormone therapy, but what are natural hormones and why do people need hormone replacement therapy?
5 Natural Allergy Remedies
In this time of year, many people suffer from seasonal allergies. One of the questions we often get at The Stengler Center for Integrative Medicine is “what is your approach to natural allergy relief?”
Green Tea Benefits: Protecting The Brain
Sip for sip, you won’t find a drink with bigger benefits than green tea.
Protect Your Right To Take Supplements
Your right to take safe and natural supplements is coming under attack – and it’s time to fight back.
How Your iPad Is Ruining Your Sleep
Getting to sleep isn’t always as simple as turning off the lights and going to bed.
How Fish Oil Fights Prostate Cancer
A couple of years back, a shoddy study made big headlines by claiming fish oil can increase the risk of prostate cancer.
Protect Your Joints & Heart At The Same Time
Arthritis damage isn’t limited to your joints. The same inflammation that leads to pain in your knees can cause damage throughout your body, which is why any plan to beat arthritis has to go beyond fighting pain.
Glutathione Continued: One Minute With Dr. Stengler
In a previous video, Dr. Stengler talked about the super antioxidant glutathione and all the great benefits it has on the human body.
Are you aspirin resistant?
50 million people in the United States are on chronic aspirin therapy.
Glutathione: One Minute with Dr. Mark Stengler
Glutathione is a very important nutrient that’s found naturally in the human body. There have been over 80,000 studies done on this important nutrient, and it has many important functions in the human body.
Dementia Linked To Diabetes, Depression & Low Folate
We all suffer from the occasional “brain fart” as we get older, but mild cognitive impairment is another story altogether. In some cases, it could be the first and only warning sign that you’re at risk for dementia.
One Minute with Dr. Stengler on Hashimoto’s Disease
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis or Hashimoto’s Disease is an autoimmune condition where your immune system attacks your own thyroid gland.
Chronic Fatigue is Officially Recognized!
For years, patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome have gotten the runaround from mainstream doctors, many of whom won’t even acknowledge that this debilitating condition is real.