Wellness

Influencing Wellness: What Impacts Your Goals And Determines Your Success

by Samoon Ahmad • September 8, 2016

At the Integrative Center for Wellness, we offer holistic, tailored treatment plans that address multiple aspects of our patients’ health needs. Why? Because optimizing a plan of action requires more than a list of steps to reach that goal. It also requires careful analysis of the health factors likely to influence a patient’s ability to […]


Weight, Resolutions, And Stress: Why New Year Weight Loss Goals Often Fail

by Samoon Ahmad • December 31, 2015

 “I want to lose weight.” Every December, this single sentence becomes a goal for an upcoming New Year. Polls confirm that weight loss is the most common New Year’s resolution. Yet, every year, the majority of hopeful people who pledge to drop a few pounds don’t succeed in doing so. Why does this happen? There […]


Gut microbiota, inflammation and immunity

by Samoon Ahmad • May 31, 2015

Scientific research continues to emphasize the importance intestinal microbiome plays in the health and immunity of the host organism. The food we consume is metabolized by the gut microbiota into small molecules that we absorb. Over the past decade, a dysbiosis in the composition of gut microbiota has been found in patients suffering from inflammatory […]