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5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Doctor’s Appointment in St. Pete

Whether you’ve been seeing the same physician for years or are visiting a new one for the first time, nobody wants to leave a consultation only to realize they didn’t cover all their bases. With conventional doctor’s visits getting shorter and shorter (the current...

5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Doctor’s Appointment in St. Pete

by Dr. Stacey Robinson | Nov 27, 2020

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5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Doctor’s Appointment in St. Pete

Whether you’ve been seeing the same physician for years or are visiting a new one for the first time, nobody wants to leave a consultation only to...

5 Signs It’s Time to Get a New Doctor Who Is Better Suited to Your Lifestyle

If you’ve been seeing the same doctor for a while now, the idea of switching to a new physician can be unappealing, even if your current...

Why Choose Concierge Medicine?

Concierge medicine refers to the physician-patient relationship without third-party insurance systems in the way. With concierge medicine, you can...

The most important question a doctor should ask is “why?” not “what?”

What is the #1 priority of a physician's education? It is to become a good diagnostician. To answer the question "what is the diagnosis?" I...

Concierge/Direct-Care is a symptom of the broken health care system

I read with interest the family medicine chat a couple weeks ago about the ethics of concierge medicine. Some argue that concierge medicine is...

Why “15 Minute Prescriptions” Aren’t Cutting It and What You Can Do to Take Control of Your Care

Every patient is unique, with their own history, lifestyle, and set of circumstances that, together, cause the symptoms they’re experiencing when...

5 Ways Dr. Stacey is Unlike Any Other Functional Medicine Doctor in Tampa Bay

Cleveland Clinic put functional medicine at the forefront when, in 2014, it became the first academic medical center in the country to open a...

The Genetics of Getting Fit: How to Make Sure Your Lifestyle Choices Work with Your Genes – and Why That’s Important

For a long time, the popular discourse surrounding fitness has been pretty one-note: eating well and exercising results in getting fitter. Of...

7 Reasons Why Functional Medicine is the Key to Holistic Health Improvement

Symptoms never appear out of nowhere. More often than not, they have hidden root causes that can impact other parts of your life. From chronic...

5 Research-Based Lifestyle Changes to Help Boost Your Energy and Well-Being

Lifestyle changes don’t have to be disruptive in order to work. In fact, for a busy working professional whose daily routine is chock-full of...

5 Stress Management Tips for Your Inner Workaholic – and the Science Behind Them

1. ExerciseWe know what you’re thinking: it feels as though there are so few hours in the day already - how in the world will adding another item to...

Benefits of Functional Medicine

In our current conventional health care system, physicians usually focus on the symptoms of the disease rather than the reason or root cause behind...

How to Recognize Functional Medicine

Functional medicine is a method that seeks out root causes of symptoms rather than treating them. While this might seem intuitive, it’s not the case...

The Top Principles of Functional Medicine

Today’s medicine often consists of treating symptoms. We go to the doctor when we experience a symptom and treatment often revolves around relieving...

Benefits of Functional Medicine

When a patient is treated with conventional medicine, the symptoms of the disease are focused on, instead of the reason behind the diseases....

Which is the most important?

More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates said, “All disease begins in the gut”. Modern medicine often ignores this organ that is central to our...

How to stay well during cold and flu season

As cold and flu season approaches, many patients ask what they can do to decrease their risk of getting sick. The first and most important step is...

How to get healthy in 2013…

As the New Year is upon us, it is again time to assess our health and set goals for the coming year. Stress, lack of exercise, and poor nutrition...

A beacon of hope for physicians battling the epidemic of chronic disease…

I spent an incredible past week with over 300 physicians and health care providers who recognize that medicine today is going in the wrong...

Tired and depressed? Make sure you don’t have this often missed vitamin deficiency…

Jack is a 50 year old successful business owner who came to see me complaining of fatigue and depression that had been going on for about 3 years....

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Why You Should Consider Fasting

Fasting has been an integral part of human history from our hunter gatherer days and continues in most major religious practices. But, why is...

Keto Brain Benefits and the 3 Critical Keto Mistakes

A ketogenic diet is a one that shifts your body into using fat as the primary energy source. When you limit intake of carbohydrates as well as...

Why You Should Be Eating Real Food

Nowadays, it is easier than ever to consume unhealthy and processed foods. There are fast food restaurants on almost every corner, and grocery...

Help Your Body Digest

Digestion starts in the brain and involves all our senses. It starts when you engage your brain in thinking about food, smelling it and admiring a...

Think Outside the Cereal Box – Healthy Breakfast Ideas

For decades, we have been brainwashed by the food industry to eat cereal for breakfast. It is so ingrained in our society, that it is hard to “think...

Are the Foods You are Eating Sabotaging Your Health?

Are you ready to make some positive changes? Health is likely at the top of your resolution list. Do you want to have more energy, sleep better,...

Detoxify, Energize & Strengthen – Post-Workout Foods to Support the Many Benefits of Exercise – Guest Post by Ashley Ondrick

Detoxify, Energize & Strengthen - Post-Workout Foods to Support the Many Benefits of Exercise Exercise has a laundry list of health benefits...

Brain Boosting Blueberry Walnut Overnight Oats

One of the questions at our ReBoot event was - what are healthy, convenient breakfast options other than cereals and breakfast bars, most of which...

How to Get a Better Workout in Less Time…

High Intensity Interval Training commonly referred to as the “HIIT” method can be used in almost any aerobic format such as walking, biking,...

The 411 on IV Nutrition Therapy

Perhaps you have heard about celebrities like Madonna, Simon Cowell, Cindy Crawford and Rihanna receiving IV Nutrition Therapy. This therapy has...

11 Tips to Eat Healthy at a Restaurant

Eating healthy is not always easy, especially during the summer when you often enjoy traveling for vacations. During vacation time, it it easy to...

Hydrate with Infused Water

One of the key components of health is adequate intake of water. Water is your body’s principal component and makes up about 60 percent of your body...

Are the Foods You are Eating Sabotaging Your Health?

The New Year is coming and are you ready to make some positive changes? Health is likely at the top of your resolution list. Do you want to have...

Think Outside the Cereal Box… Healthy Breakfast Ideas

For decades, we have been brainwashed by the food industry to eat cereal for breakfast. It is so ingrained in our society, that it is hard to “think...

Overnight Oats

Overnight Oats There are several advantages of having overnight oats for breakfast - there is no cooking required, they are prepared the night...

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Is BHRT An Effective Therapy?

Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, or BHRT, is known to be safe and it is effective in comparison to the conventional hormone therapy to...

Find Relief from Menopause Symptoms with BHRT

Menopause is a natural part of getting older but can result in uncomfortable side effects that affect daily life and happiness. BHRT (bioidentical...

“Low T”…Myth or Reality?

If you ever turn on your TV, no doubt you have seen the commercials for treatment of “Low T” or low testosterone in men. Is this another disease...

Bio-identical Hormone Pellets: the best delivery method to restore hormone balance

As men and women age, many suffer from symptom caused by decreasing levels of reproductive hormones. Women going through menopause often...

“Low T”… myth or reality?

If you ever turn on your TV, no doubt you have seen the commercials for treatment of "Low T" or low testosterone in men. Is this another disease...

10 Things You Need to Know about Menopause and Bio-Identical Hormones

Contrary to what the drug companies want you to believe, menopause is not a disease that needs to be treated. It is true that some women have severe...

Do you think your hormones might be out of balance?

Hormones are the body’s messengers, allowing communication to occur throughout the body. What happens when people don’t communicate with each...

10 Steps to Hormone Balance (for men and women)

Step 1 - Nutrition •Avoid non-organic meat and dairy. Meat and dairy raised with hormones and antibiotics can affect your hormone metabolism. •Eat...

6 Tests Your Doctor May Not Tell You About… #6 Saliva Testing for Hormones

Hormones are the body's messengers, allowing communication to occur throughout the body. What happens when people don't communicate with each other?...

6 Reasons Why SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) isn’t “like the flu”

As we continue to take precautions against COVID-19, it’s more important than ever to understand the medical facts about this pandemic. Debates are...

Massage Therapy for Headaches: How It Can Help

If you’re prone to frequent headaches, you’ve probably tried at least a few ways to reduce pain and tension. One tool you should know about, though,...

Should You Try IV Therapy?

IV therapy delivers the hydration and nutrients your body needs directly into the bloodstream. The IV works quickly and effectively when...

Which organ of the body is the most important for your health? The answer may surprise you…

More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates said, “All disease begins in the gut”. Modern medicine often ignores this organ that is central to our...

Which is the most important?

More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates said, “All disease begins in the gut”. Modern medicine often ignores this organ that is central to our...

Ten Reasons to Consider Breast Thermography

There is no exposure to ionizing radiation. Thermography is a type of medical imaging that looks at heat patterns on the skin that may be indicative...

Hydrate with Infused Water

One of the key components of health is adequate intake of water. Water is your body’s principal component and makes up about 60 percent of your body...

Stop Cold & Flu in Its Tracks!

It is that time of year when you may be exposed to viruses that can cause you to feel tired, run down, and achy. With normal stresses compounded by...

The natural way to build strong bones…

Patients often come to my practice for help with natural treatment of osteoporosis and osteopenia, usually after their physician has recommended...

Which organ is the most important for your health? The answer may surprise you…

More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates said, “All disease begins in the gut”. Modern medicine often ignores this organ that is central to our...

What can you do when you get a cold or flu…

One of the most common questions that I get this time of year is, "How do I get better faster if I get a cold or flu?" Start the following as soon...

How to stay well during cold and flu season

As cold and flu season approaches, many patients ask what they can do to decrease their risk of getting sick. The first and most important step is...

Are you getting enough Vitamin D?

What is Vitamin D? • Although called a “vitamin”, this important element of health is actually a potent hormone that affects over 2,000 genes and at...

Liquid poison – Are the beverages you are drinking slowly killing you?

One of the key components of health is adequate intake of water, especially during the summer months. Yet, many people fill themselves with anything...

Does fish oil cause prostate cancer?

News of a newly-published study titled “Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk in the SELECT Trial” has been covered in the...

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How the Bredesen Protocol™ Can Help You

For many patients, Alzheimer’s disease is a very real risk that can begin to take hold far before they notice any signs. That’s why you should know...

Why You Should Meditate

Why You Should Meditate With all the proven reasons to meditate, it might be easier to talk about reasons you shouldn’t meditate— except that there...

A simple program to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease…

Alzheimer's disease is one of the most devastating, feared diseases because it robs your mind and your memory and turns your family into caregivers...

Is your brain foggy? Here are 8 things that can fix it fast.

One of the most common symptoms that I hear in my clinic is the complaint that "my brain doesn't work like it used to", such as mild memory loss...

Tired and depressed? Make sure you don’t have this often missed vitamin deficiency…

Jack is a 50 year old successful business owner who came to see me complaining of fatigue and depression that had been going on for about 3 years....

7 Steps to fighting insomnia

Sixty percent of adults get inadequate sleep and 10-30% of adults suffer from chronic insomnia. Inadequate sleep causes irritability, decrease in...

What prevents cancer, helps us lose weight, makes us look younger, and doesn’t cost a dime?

Sleep has a powerful impact on how fast we age. Sleep literally makes our bodies new. During sleep, those wonderful hormones that build and renew...

The first step in controlling stress is understanding it

Last post we defined stress and described the fight-flight response and how it leads to disease. Now that we know how stress affects the body, what...

How stress is killing us

"It is not the stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it." -Hans Selye There has long been an unspoken misconception that when a doctor tells a...

Controlled Breathing

Doing this exercise regularly can reduce the physiologic effects of stress. The 4-7-8 (or Relaxing Breath) Exercise This exercise is simple, takes...

I want to be a coffee bean…

Somebody sent this to me years ago and I think it is a great analogy of the importance of attitude. Attitude can be defined as our readiness to act...

What you will not hear during the presidential debates: 3 inevitable consequences of Obamacare…

With the election coming up a a few weeks, I think this subject is worth another re-visit. Let me just preface this blog by saying that I am not...

One physician’s opinion on health reform…

After much deliberation, I have decided to blog in response to the timely topic of health reform. I hesitated to blog about this topic because of...

11 Things that medicine has taught me about health insurance…

1. The reason health insurance is so costly is that we don’t use it like insurance which is to protect against uncertain losses. We expect insurance...