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Ways Functional Medicine Gets to the Root Cause of Your Medical Symptoms
The main goal of functional medicine is to help patients find and treat the root cause of their symptoms. This is achieved through a variety of approaches that differ from conventional healthcare treatment. Let’s discuss what that might mean for you and your...
Ways Functional Medicine Gets to the Root Cause of Your Medical Symptoms
The main goal of functional medicine is to help patients find and treat the root cause of their symptoms. This is achieved through a variety of approaches that differ from conventional healthcare treatment. Let’s discuss what that might mean for you and your...
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5 Steps to Getting the Best Sleep
Are you one of the many millions of Americans who sleep less than 7 hours per night? Sleep is one of the essential biological needs of the human body. Many of us notice that even one night of poor sleep has a strong and almost immediate impact on our memory, judgment,...
Four Key Practices to Improve Your Cholesterol
Cholesterol is essential to your health. It is used to make hormones and is a structural component of every cell in your body. We need cholesterol but imbalance of cholesterol can put us at risk for cardiovascular disease. Balancing cholesterol is not a simple task....
Specialized Lab Testing Can Improve Your Day-to-Day Life
Achieving holistic wellness means understanding your unique health needs. That starts with specialized lab testing. You Are Not Your SymptomsFinding relief from symptoms is hardly ever about treating those symptoms at face value. That's where specialized lab testing...
Robinson MD’s Specialized Testing Options Brings Functional Medicine to the Tampa Bay Area
At Robinson MD, we want our patients to be the healthiest they can be, which is why we practice functional medicine. Traditional healthcare often takes a symptoms-first approach when treating patients, but we look beyond symptoms to examine your lifestyle, diet,...
Preventing Age-Related Muscle Loss is the Key to Health!
Strength is one of the most important determinants of your health span, the duration of life that you will enjoy good health. If you don’t make efforts to preserve muscle, you will lose about 5% of your strength each decade after age 30. Cognitive decline is also...
Why Annual Checkups Aren’t Enough
In American healthcare, annual checkups have become standard practice as benchmarks for doctors to check in on their patients’ preventative care efforts. However, annual checkups in traditional healthcare take only 15 minutes to focus on the bare minimum. We want you...
Affordable Concierge Medicine is More Attainable Than you Think
Insurance-based healthcare might be the standard for healthcare in the United States, but it doesn’t work for everyone. It’s not uncommon to struggle with appointment times or to have your health issues dismissed. However, concierge medicine allows you to have access...
Are You Getting Enough of this “Good Carbohydrate” that is Essential to Your Health and Longevity?
Dietary fiber is a type of carbohydrate found in plant foods (in grains, beans, nuts fruit and vegetables). Although you can’t digest it, fiber performs many critical functions in the body and is protective against many diseases including Type 2 diabetes, colorectal...
Supplements 101… Assessing Supplement Quality, Top 5 Supplements, and How to Avoid the Fish Oil Scam!
2 Steps to Assess Supplement Quality:I often hear from people how they got a great BOGO deal on multivitamins at a big-box pharmacy or wholesale store. Inexpensive vitamins contain the cheapest forms of each vitamin and a plethora of additives, preservatives, and...
How Chronic Pain and Fatigue Affect Your Day-to-Day (And How To Help it)
Experiencing any amount of chronic pain or fatigue can be extremely difficult. Because these conditions’ manifestations and causes are so varied, physicians and patients alike can be frustrated by the difficulties that arise when attempting to find long-term relief....
Early Cancer Detection is the Key to Successful Treatment
An early diagnosis is one of the most useful tools a person and their medical team can have in the fight against cancer. The sooner cancer is detected, the more options are available to mitigate its harm, reduce its spread, and successfully achieve remission. Today,...
Concierge Medicine Explained: Why this Approach is a (Literal) Lifesaver if You Never Have Time for the Doctor.
Not having time for the doctor isn’t the same as not needing the doctor. With the many inefficiencies that come with traditional patient care (long wait times, minimum physician facetime, and time-consuming administrative work), it’s not difficult to discern why...
At Robinson MD, our concierge medicine plan is designed to get to the root cause of illness and promote long-term health. Here’s how.
Is a concierge medicine plan really worth it, and will it make a significant impact on your health? In order to answer that question, it’s necessary to first examine the alternative. More and more patients are growing dissatisfied with the traditional approach to...
Robinson M.D. offers individualized concierge medicine services. Here’s what that means for your schedule and your health.
Robinson MD offers concierge care in order to help patients address the root causes of their illnesses and achieve their best health. Concierge medicine is an increasingly popular approach, as it addresses and subverts many of the pain points that patients experience...
Need to Call Your Doctor in the Middle of the Night? Here’s How Robinson MD’s Concierge Plan Makes that Possible.
The ability to call their doctor in the middle of the night isn’t something that most people get for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that too many people are unaware that this is a possibility. For most people, late-night contact with a physician only...
Every Cancer Patient Needs To Know About The Signatera Test
In an earlier blog, we introduced you to the Grail Galleri test, a “liquid biopsy” for screening of over 50 cancers. Now we want to tell you about an even more personalized cancer test, the Signatera™ blood test that detects cancer recurrence in those who have already...
5 Ways a Concierge Medicine Plan can Help you get the Best Healthcare You Can on Any Schedule.
We understand that no schedule is static. Something can always come up that will change your availability. Whether you’re a shift worker who switches from days to nights or works a few days before having time off, having access to someone whose schedule is as flexible...
It’s Possible to Find a Doctor with Flexible Scheduling. Here’s How To Do It
Seeing a doctor regularly is essential for prevention, managing illnesses, and enjoying your life. But finding a doctor can be a nightmare. Either their schedules are booked for the next six months, the only open doctor is across town, or they're open two days a week...
Are You Getting Enough of this “Good Carbohydrate” that is Essential to Your Health and Longevity?
Dietary fiber is a type of carbohydrate found in plant foods (in grains, beans, nuts fruit and vegetables). Although you can’t digest it, fiber performs many critical functions in the body and is protective against many diseases including Type 2 diabetes, colorectal...
Supplements 101… Assessing Supplement Quality, Top 5 Supplements, and How to Avoid the Fish Oil Scam!
2 Steps to Assess Supplement Quality:I often hear from people how they got a great BOGO deal on multivitamins at a big-box pharmacy or wholesale store. Inexpensive vitamins contain the cheapest forms of each vitamin and a plethora of additives, preservatives, and...
Your Metabolism Changes as You Get Older. Functional Nutritional Testing Can Show You What You Need to Be Your Healthiest.
“My metabolism isn’t what it used to be” is a tried-and-true saying among adults of virtually every age, and its implications abound. Does everybody’s metabolism move at a similar rate–or, at least, do we all experience a slowing down of our metabolisms at roughly the...
How State of the Art Medical Testing Can Improve Your Health Beyond a Normal Checkup
Preventive care is the best way to ensure you’re not just healthy now, but also healthy in the future. Put your future first with state of the art medical testing to improve your health beyond a normal checkup. Put Your Health First More than ever, patients are aware...
Your Nutrition is Different from Everyone Else’s. How to Know Your Ideal Nutrition Plan.
Nutrition is so often described in blanket terms–and, worse, it’s often advised about without much regard for scientific explanations, peer-reviewed study, or individual needs. The truth about nutrition is that it can’t be optimized for any one person by Instagram...
Early Cancer Detection is the Key to Successful Treatment
An early diagnosis is one of the most useful tools a person and their medical team can have in the fight against cancer. The sooner cancer is detected, the more options are available to mitigate its harm, reduce its spread, and successfully achieve remission. Today,...
5 Steps to “Immune Resiliency” To Help Avoid COVID-19 Infection and Complications
Preventive strategies such as vaccines, hand washing and masking can help you to avoid COVID-19 infection. However, there are many other factors that help to strengthen your immune system. This “immune resilience” is also important to prevent other infections and can...
The Only Way To Make Sure You’re Taking The Right Supplements Is To See A Doctor. Here’s Why.
“Am I taking the right supplements?” With more information out there about gut health, nutrition, and supplements than ever, it’s just as easy for each nutrition-related Google search to hit a gold mine as it is to yield misinformation. Ultimately, the only person who...
What is the Gut Microbiome, and Why is it So Important?
What is the gut microbiome? The short answer is that it’s the collection of billions of “good” bacteria that live in your gut. The longer answer is that these bacteria play an instrumental role in not just effective digestion, but in whole-body health. As science...
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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 protein, your body will instead use fat for energy, breaking them down into ketones that can be used for energy. The...
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 stores are stocked with high-sugar and high-fat snacks. Not only can eating these processed, high-fat foods lead to weight...
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 meal. In response, your brain prepares your body for digestion, releasing hormones and digestive enzymes that break down...
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 outside the cereal box”. But the fact is that the majority of cereal is full of sugar and processed carbohydrates and...
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, think more clearly and look better? The food that you choose to eat is the most important component to achieve these goals....
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 including detoxifying the body, strengthening muscles, bones and joints, increasing cardiovascular health, boosting energy,...
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 are filled with unhealthy processed carbs, sugar, additives and preservatives. Here's a great option that has healthy,...
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, treadmill, swimming, rowing, etc… and can be done indoors or outdoors. HOW DOES IT WORK? This method combines the aerobic...
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 become popular among celebs and patients alike to help receive the vitamins and nutrients your body needs. Read on to learn...
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? There can be a total breakdown of a process where things do not happen the way they are supposed to happen and errors...
5 Steps to “Immune Resiliency” To Help Avoid COVID-19 Infection and Complications
Preventive strategies such as vaccines, hand washing and masking can help you to avoid COVID-19 infection. However, there are many other factors that help to strengthen your immune system. This “immune resilience” is also important to prevent other infections and can...
How to Troubleshoot Your Lack of Restful Sleep
At Robinson MD, our priority is to help you create a strong foundation of health and wellness. Inadequate sleep has been associated with chronic pain, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), thyroid disorders, and Alzheimer's...
High Blood Pressure – Looking Beyond Medications
High blood pressure can be a difficult diagnosis to process. Overwhelmingly, it causes no symptoms and its causes can be elusive. Patients can be left feeling “why me?”. Americans have a 90% lifetime risk of developing hypertension. Further, age and genetics can...
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 widespread about the nature of the novel coronavirus: is it really that dangerous? Are the “stay at home” orders an...
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, is massage therapy. If you’ve noticed that rubbing the headache area or putting pressure on specific points can help...
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 administered by your physician. You might have thought IVs were only for those who are very sick, but they can actually be used to...
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 health. Conditions associated with poor gut health include not only common gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel...
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 health. Conditions associated with poor gut health include not only common gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel...
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 of underlying dysfunction. Because there is no radiation exposure, thermography is safe for women of all ages....
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 can we do about it? Let's talk more about the initiation of the stress response and how we can prevent it or and stop it...
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 patient that their symptoms are "probably just caused by stress" that this implies their symptoms are imagined. This...
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 very little time, requires no equipment and can be done anywhere. Exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh...
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 or react in a specific way. Although we can't control other people and we can't always control our circumstances, we do...
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