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Addressing Women's Health Issues with Alternative Medicine
Root Cause specializes in the natural treatment of a wide array of women’s health conditions, WITHOUT the use of drugs, surgery or synthetic hormones.
Our Approach To Treatment
As a woman, your health needs change throughout your life in important ways. The team of gynecologists, medical doctors, nurse practitioners, functional medicine experts, dietitians, dulas, physical therapists, and doctors of chiropractic, together make up the Root Cause Team. The clinicians understand your changing needs as a woman, and partner with you to become the healthiest, happiest, and most vital version of yourself.
Root Cause Medicine places an emphasis on a functional medicine, integrative approach to your health which entails looking at your body as a whole rather than masking symptoms with drugs.
You will receive a comprehensive examination that embraces your entire health history, followed by a personalized treatment program designed to address your exact needs. Cutting edge lab tests will assist your team of doctors in designing your treatment program.
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Success Rate7 Reasons Our Treatment Program Differs From Conventional Medicine
Comprehensive Medical Exam
Your condition is analyzed through a comprehensive exam that looks at your entire body and takes into consideration your personal health history.
Identify the Root Cause
The exact root cause of your condition is identified, and a personalized program is developed to reverse the causes found. Root Cause Medicine is a natural program; we do not follow the conventional medical model of masking your symptoms with drugs that act only temporarily and have dangerous side effects.
Team Effort
Your condition is treated through collaboration with a variety of practitioners spanning internal medicine, functional medicine, nurse practitioner, registered dietitian, chiropractic and physical therapy. Each clinician has extensive experience in women’s health and are experts in their field.
Dedicated to Your Health
Your team of dedicated and experienced doctors work with you directly in person or via zoom visits, and additionally spend hours behind the scenes collaborating with the Root Cause team and developing the exact right program for your condition.
Strong Track Record of Success
The doctors and nurse practitioners have excellent success safely weaning you off medications with dangerous side effects as your health status improves and your need for the drug(s) diminishes.
Strengthen Your Body
If needed, Root Cause Medical provides you with physical help designed to balance the weakened muscles and irritated nerves that can be contributing to your condition.
Address Your Stress and Anxiety
Your team successfully addresses the stress, anxiety, mood swings, brain fog and depression that so often accompanies many women’s health conditions, all without dangerous drugs.
What is Hormonal Imbalance?
There are many, many conditions associated with hormonal imbalance. Traditionally, conventional medicine tends to first rule out disease and then treat hormonal imbalances with synthetic hormones.
Root Cause Medicine has a very different approach. The Root Cause approach looks at your body as a whole and appreciates how the various parts, systems, and organs work together to all influence one another. It also appreciates the hierarchy of organs that exists within your body.
We all understand that the brain and nervous system, “run the show”, if you will, when it comes to bodily function, but the digestive tract is often called “the second brain” because of its ability to influence the brain. The digestive tract is responsible for fueling all the 10 trillion cells of your body while “housing” 30 trillion health bacteria that influence your hormonal balance.
Birth Control To Mask Hormonal Imbalance
The birth control pill (BCP) – are often used for reasons other than contraception, all of which are associated with hormonal imbalance: 14% of pill users take them for non-contraceptive purposes. Fifty-eight percent of users take them for reasons in addition to pregnancy prevention, leaving only 42% of pill users taking the pill exclusively to prevent pregnancy.
Reasons women take the pill include menstrual cramps or pain, migraines associated with the period, to control irregular periods, heavy bleeding, acne, and endometriosis.
Many adolescent girls, 82% according to a study, are put on the pill for non-contraceptive purposes.
There are options for contraception other than synthetic hormones and the other symptoms for which the BCP is used are treated very successfully with the Root Cause approach.
Conditions we treat include, but are not limited to:
- Thyroid Disorders
- Infertility or Miscarriage
- Amenorrhea
- Insomnia / Sleep Issues
- Chronic Fatigue
- PMS
- PCOS
- Migraine associated with the menstrual cycle
- Acne
- Heavy Periods
- Cramping
- Fibroids
- Endometriosis
- Perimenopause
- Menopause
- Brain Fog or Loss of Concentration
- Irritability and Mood Swings
- Precocious Puberty
- Postpartum Depression
- Gestational Diabetes
- Low Libido
- Thyroid Imbalance
- HPV Infection
Causes of Hormonal Imbalance
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Causes of Hormonal Imbalance
- Food sensitivities.Sensitivities are very common. No part of your body can be expected to function normally if it’s poorly nourished. This is especially true of the organs affecting hormonal balance. It is not difficult to accurately identify food sensitivities.
- Poor diet. The Standard American Diet (SAD) is laden with non-food, chemicals, and preservatives called endocrine disruptors. These disruptors lead to infertility, hormonal imbalance, and early puberty.
- Adrenal gland exhaustion. Adrenal malfunction is common yet ignored because it is not a disease. This is unfortunate because it is often a root cause of hormonal imbalance. Your adrenal glands make the precursor hormones that in turn make your sex hormones. If they are not functioning normally, hormonal production is majorly affected.
- Thyroid function. The thyroid works closely with the adrenal glands. Thyroid malfunction is typically treated with synthetic thyroid hormones rather than trying to understand why the malfunction has developed. Untreated adrenal fatigue can secondarily affect thyroid function.
- Digestive health. The key to good health and hormonal balance requires fuel for the cells of your body. If nutrients are coming in but you cannot properly break them down and turn them into fuel for your cells, it’s considered maldigestion, which must get handled to enjoy hormonal balance.
- Microbiome health.Your microbiome is composed of 30 trillion organisms in your gut that provide functions that support your immune system, keep bad genes that program you for disease turned off, diminish inflammation, and create hormonal balance.
- Toxicity. We live in a toxic world that sadly only becomes more toxic with each passing year. Hormone disruptors found in plastics, pollutants, preservatives, GMO foods, and drugs, literally “bathe” Americans from in utero and throughout life. Identifying avoidable hormone disruptors while restoring the function of any organs that have become negatively affected, is a key part of your successful treatment plan.
- Infections we identify that tax your immune system and offset hormonal balance, are often “hidden”. The infectious agent, be it bacterial, parasitic, fungal, or viral, has been present for a long time. It won’t cause you a fever but its chronic presence weakens your immune system and digestive tract, both of which affect your hormonal balance.
- Nervous system. Your brain “controls” parts of your body via your nerves. It is quite common, for a woman who is chiropractic care to experience resolution of menstrual cramps because of lower back treatment. Why? The nerves that travel to the uterus originate from your lower back.
- Insufficient hormones –There is times when hormone augmentation is needed. It is not the sole treatment, but in tandem with addressing the root causes, women in menopause, and younger women as well, find that treatment with bio-identical hormones is very beneficial. In younger women the hormones help “reset” the system naturally and are not required long term. Older women can utilize hormones longer term safely, gaining great physical and mental benefits.
Patient Success Story of Shannon
I was getting migraines once a month, if not more, for 3 to 4 days at a time.
Since starting I haven't had a migraine in a year.
I've lost about 50 lbs, my neck no longer hurts and I don't have migraines.
My primary physician, I had gone to many times over 20 years. Most of the time they just wanted to give me medical to alleviate my migraines. She wasn't interested in finding out the reason for my migraines.
Patient Success Story of an Elite Dancer
I would get sick all the time and was like, "I just get sick all the time" and that's that.
I discovered that a lot of my physical ailments and actual immune system was being affected by my birth control. Never in a million years did I even know that was a thing.
Was anxious and very irregular with my periods.
For me, that was removing my IED.
I have been able to naturally get my hormones balanced and off of my birth control.
I have never felt this good, truly.
Patient Success Story of Jessica
I had a lot of health issues, ITP (a bleeding disorder). I started developing a lot of other symptoms including: IBS, Colitis and food allergies. My doctors didn't know what to do with me.I was losing all my hair.
I was horrible, I could barely get out of bed. I hadn't had my menstrual cycles for several years.
Doctors told me I may never be able to have a baby due to my health issues.
A lot of my immune issues started to subside with the inflammation, the GI issues and all of a sudden, I started getting my periods back. Two months later, I had a little miracle and found out I was pregnant.
5 Steps to Better Health
Phone Consultation
We begin with a phone consultation that assesses the extent of your symptoms, your health history, and the goal is to ensure we are a good fit for one another. We want to be successful as much as you do.
Examination
A comprehensive examination will then occur if you are seeing us in person or via a zoom telemedicine visit one of our doctors if you live remotely from our clinic locations.
State of the Art Lab Tests
Specialized lab testing is performed to assist your doctor in finding the true root cause of your symptoms.
Diagnosis
A diagnosis from your Root Cause team of doctors will reveal the exact reason your symptoms are being created.
The in-depth personalized Root Cause diagnosis opens the door to your successful treatment program.
Treat Your Root Cause Issues
Root Cause treatment programs include a variety of components depending on the exact cause of your hormonal symptoms.
Potential Program Treatments
- Dietary change
- Nutritional supplementation to balance digestive, detoxification, and hormonal systems.
- Bio-identical hormones
- Nutritional IVs
- Natural treatment of infections or toxins in the gut
- Muscle and nervous systems treatments to restore balance in the diaphragm, ribs, neck and low back as needed.
- Lifestyle change
- Personalized exercises
Your Root Cause Team Addresses Your Women’s Health Concerns
At Root Cause, we believe that no two patients are the same. From prevention to root-cause diagnosis to lifestyle-centric treatment, our care is tailored and personalized to you. With a collaborative team that fuses medical doctors, nurse practitioners, functional medicine doctors, dietitians, physical therapists and chiropractors, you have the comprehensive guidance and support you need to regain your health.
At Root Cause Medical, no detail is too small. From our detailed medical exam to comprehensive lab testing to online education and community events, the Root Cause experience is designed to enhance your health and those of your loved ones. We offer a complimentary consultation so you can meet our team of practitioners and decide if our personalized women’s health programs are the right fit for you.
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