We aren’t your ordinary office.  We know that health is more than the absence of symptoms and disease; it is a lifestyle.  A lifestyle that you consciously create step-by-step in order to experience a lifetime of health and wellness.  That is our job, to help you create a plan and achieve your health goals.

We know you were born to be healthy, and we will help you and your family express that health naturally.  In fact, that is our mission – a healthier community one family at a time

We promise that as a member of our practice you will always be treated as a person created for health, and never as a diagnosis.  We believe that healthcare should be about an individual and not a label.  Come see what that is like.

Welcome from Dr. Cole

We are excited at the prospect of partnering with your family for a healthier tomorrow.  Please look over our site, check out our articles (feel free to share them), and learn more about Dr. Cole.  If there is anything we can do to help you, email us here.  We would love to hear about it.

Did you know that each moment you are either moving towards health & wellness and away from sickness and disease, or you are moving towards sickness & disease and away from health and wellness?  If your determination is that you are moving the wrong way, then let this be a turning point for you.

The things that are killing most Americans are preventable lifestyle diseases!  Heart disease, Cancer, Diabetes.  The fourth largest killer is the solution for those problems: drugs and surgery (see Death by Medicine, originally published in the Journal of the American Medical Association).   We are doing something wrong and we need to refresh our thinking.

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Moms and Dads, this ones for you.  Ear infections are the number one reason for antibiotic prescription in infants and young children, so what do you need to be aware of?  First, the average child under 2 years of age will have 2 ear infections per year.  Risk factors that increase the likelihood of ear infection include: daycare attendance, exposure to cigarette smoke, pacifier use beyond 10 months, and formula feeding.

Since it is likely that you and your child will experience this at some point, here is the best current information to keep in mind:

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Has it ever occurred to you that everything you do in your life is done through your nervous system?  Watching a sunset, tasting a great wine, feeling the ocean breeze on your skin — you experience your life through your senses which communicate to your brain via nerves.  That is why we call the nervous system the master system of the body, because it controls everything from your heartbeat to perception of pain.

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Being a healthcare practitioner, I often have people asking for my opinion or advice on a wide variety of topics ranging from “what should I eat” to “what do you think of vaccination.”  It comes with the territory, and I truly enjoy sharing my knowledge with people.

Then we decided to go through our pregnancy with a midwife and use a birthing center for delivery.

Open the floodgates.  I was now treading water in a sea of questions.

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There is a lot of misleading information out there on what vitamins are best for you.  If you take vitamins or supplements I’d even bet if you’ve been subjected to other’s opinions on what is best for you, or why what they take is superior.  Today I’m going to strip away the hype and start from the foundational paradigms on which vitamins are made.  We’ll begin by looking at the two different philosophies – synthetic and whole food.

[Click here for last weeks post on why you should be taking supplements.]

Synthetic Vitamins vs. Whole Food Supplements

When you break it down to the basics, there are really two types of encapsulated nutrients you can buy; whole food supplements or synthetic vitamins (aka pharmaceutical-grade vitamins).  The most common is synthetic vitamins, of which there are hundreds of brands (such as centrum).  Interestingly, only a few companies like Merck and Kodak make almost ALL the brands of synthetic vitamins you see in places like Wal-Mart, Walgreens, and GNC.   Even worse, only 3% of nutrition companies make their own product!

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