Integrative Medicine

Monday, October 10th is World Mental Health Day. However, as an integrative and functional medical practice, we are keenly aware of the importance of mental health year-round. Here are some of our team members' best tips to manage your mental health this October and every other month as well. Dr. Casey Kelley, Founder and Medical Director Mental health is systemic health. Period. Mental health challenges are most often symptoms of underlying systemic inflammation, infections

If you're suffering from persistent pain- you're not alone. An estimated 20.4% of adults in the United States suffer from chronic pain. That's roughly 50 million people! Even more significantly, about a third of adults suffer from high-impact chronic pain, meaning that the pain is so severe and persistent that it substantially restricts day-to-day activities. Chronic pain can be due to various conditions and appear anywhere throughout the body; however, one of the more common

After referring patients to Case Integrative Health for many years, I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the team on August...

As a health coach, I have the honor of supporting clients in lifestyle change. Some changes are big and some are small but almost all require some degree of habit formation. Whether it is breaking a habit that is no longer serving or creating a new healthy habit, there are certain steps to take to help set yourself up for success. Establish your why. Before investing in new shoes, organizational tools, or gear, spend some time thinking about why you want to make a change. Wha

Tired of being tired? Sleep is an often underrated lever when it comes to health. Research shows that people whose sleep duration is inadequate, or repeatedly disrupted (e.g., by shiftwork, sleep apnea, pain, or stress) suffer serious tolls on their waking cognitive functions, including performance, working memory, cognitive speed, and accuracy. It is known that proper rest is absolutely critical to healing from any acute or chronic health issue. Furthermore, insufficient qua

My name is Magdalena, and I have recently joined the wonderful team at Case Integrative Health as a Physician Assistant. I’m looking forward to meeting all of you one on one, and helping you along on your healthcare journeys - but first, here’s a little about myself. My journey into the world of medicine hasn’t been as straightforward as many others in the profession, but I feel that sets me apart to be of better service to my patients. For starters, I was born and raised in

New Year, New You- at least, that’s what we tell ourselves. Unfortunately, the reality of sticking to and achieving our hard-set health...

The holidays can be a stressful time for anyone- but add a chronic condition to the mix, and things multiply tenfold. We know you want it...

In today’s diet culture, a “healthy metabolism” is often synonymous with a healthy weight. While optimizing metabolism can help support a...

Being a safe and calm voice during tumultuous times has always been my greatest gift to others. I was drawn to medicine because at a very...

If you’ve been part of the Case Integrative Health family for a while, you’ve probably crossed paths with one of our health coaches. But...

The Games show us metabolisms functioning at their peak. The rest of us may need a little help getting our metabolism back on track.

What’s going on in that head of yours? A lot is happening in your brain. 500 trillion neurons connect to form 125 trillion synapses in the brain (that's the same number of stars in 1,500 galaxies like the Milky Way). Electrical pulses travel out from your brain along your Central Nervous System and govern everything you do. Broadly speaking, there are three parts to this system: the sympathetic, parasympathetic and enteric systems. Enteric is a system devoted to digestio

Chronic illness is on the rise: diabetes, autoimmune diseases, allergies, autism and developmental disorders to name a few.  Arguably the most devastating and burdensome on patients and families are cognitive decline and dementia.   Currently, Alzheimer’s Disease affects 33 million people worldwide. Some forecasts estimate 45 million Americans alive right now will develop Alzheimer’s Disease during their lifetime. Disregarding the extreme emotional cost dementia extracts

If you’re an individual with chronic illness (like many of our patients at Case Integrative Health), the world can feel overwhelming at...

While the holidays are supposedly the most wonderful time of the year, for many (even in the best of times), it can feel like anything but..

December 8th-10th, you can join Case Integrative Health's Dr. Rana Mafee, MD, ABoIM for the Essential Tremor Speaker Series. Dr. Mafee will be speaking alongside world-renowned doctors, scientists and researchers on Essential Tremor- a nervous system disorder that causes consistent shaking. To find out more about this disorder that impacts more than 200,000 people in the U.S. alone, the Case Integrative Health communications team sat down with Dr. Mafee to learn the basics: Q

As many of you know, treating complex, chronic disease is a constant priority at Case Integrative Health. Our passion is blending functional and integrative medicine with factual, science backed research to treat the root causes of our patients ailments. Conventional medical care focuses on treating symptoms. This works amazingly well for acute issues.​ However, 6 in 10 Americans are fighting chronic conditions- including Lyme disease. In those cases masking issues with pill

While there are many amazing things about the Lyme disease community, one of my favorites is the number of amazing human-beings in it. Ashley Iovinelli is one of those people- a Lyme warrior and Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Ashley lights up any room she enters. Ashley is the creative brain behind @WheatGrassWarrior. Ashley's passion for nutrition and a holistic lifestyle stems back to her own personal struggle with chronic health issues. Over the years, she has battled

Seemingly, every news organization is devoting essentially all of their attention to a certain virus that is running free, while we stay locked up. The better news is that the global medical community is also devoting much of their attention to figuring out how and why SARS-CoV-2 does what it does. The hope is that by unlocking the chain of symptoms and reactions, we can create treatments and ultimately, vaccines. New information is coming out, basically every day, but one