Welcome to Your Healing Journey
Welcome to Healing the Brain and Body! Whether you are just starting your healing journey or have been walking it for years, we hope this space offers reassurance, encouragement, and the reminder that you are not alone—and that healing and progress are possible!
Welcome, we’re glad you’re here! A great way to get started at Healing the Brain and Body is to check out this resource that I created to share my personal story and just how far I’ve come in my own healing journey, as well as the people and treatments that were integral to my recovery.
We strive to provide life-changing information to those suffering with TBI and other related issues by making it easier to find crucial resources and information that can help you in your healing journey.
Check below for helpful resources and topics to help guide you on your personal path. You can also visit our Blog page to find additional information.
Stroke and Functional Medicine
Functional medicine doctors and practitioners, such as Dr. Darrell Kilcup, Dr. Ken Sharlin, and Dhruvil J Pandya, MD, focus on a root-cause approach to stroke, addressing underlying factors like chronic inflammation, gut health, metabolic dysfunction, and nutrient deficiencies to enhance recovery and prevent future events.
This approach emphasizes personalized nutrition, targeted supplementation (e.g., Omega-3s, magnesium, CoQ10), lifestyle interventions, and therapies like Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) or red light therapy to support neuroplasticity and brain healing.
Autoimmune Encephalitis
Autoimmunity is when the immune system goes haywire and begins detecting its own cells as harmful, thus prompting the body to attack itself. This can manifest in many forms, often leading to chronic inflammation and other pain.
Autoimmune encephalitis is a serious autoimmune condition that attacks the central nervous system and neural areas.
While people with autoimmune conditions can help limit their flare-ups through diet changes and other lifestyle changes, autoimmune encephalitis often requires more significant first-line treatments. In many cases, people see major improvements in this disease.
Learn More about causes, symptoms, and treatments here.
Ischemic Stroke Information
According to the Mayo Clinic, an ischemic stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is blocked or reduced. This prevents brain tissue from getting oxygen and nutrients. Brain cells begin to die in minutes. Another type of stroke is a hemorrhagic stroke. It occurs when a blood vessel in the brain leaks or bursts and causes bleeding in the brain. The blood increases pressure on brain cells and damages them.
A stroke is a medical emergency. It's crucial to get medical treatment right away. Getting emergency medical help quickly can reduce brain damage and other stroke complications.
The good news is that fewer Americans die of stroke now than in the past. Effective treatments also can help prevent disability from stroke.
Learn More about Ischemic strokes and their symptoms, causes, and treatments here.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Functional Medicine
Functional medicine for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) uses a holistic, root-cause approach, focusing on nutrition (like anti-inflammatory diets, omega-3s), targeted supplements (antioxidants, vitamins), lifestyle changes (sleep, stress management, specific exercise), and complementary therapies (neurofeedback, acupuncture, chiropractic, mindfulness) to support the brain's healing, reduce inflammation, and address persistent symptoms like headaches, dizziness, and cognitive issues, often complementing conventional care by optimizing the body's systems.
Read more about the core principals and interventions here.
Integrative Medicine vs. Functional Medicine
Integrative medicine blends conventional care with holistic, complementary therapies (like acupuncture, yoga, nutrition) for whole-person wellness, while functional medicine is a specific type of integrative approach focusing intensely on identifying and treating the root causes of chronic disease by analyzing genetics, environment, and lifestyle, often using advanced testing. Both emphasize patient partnership, but functional medicine drills deeper into system imbalances (gut, hormones, etc.) to restore function, whereas integrative medicine broadly combines various modalities for overall balance.
Read more about the two and how to choose which is right for you here.
Functional Medicine Doctors
Functional medicine doctors use specialized training and techniques to find the root causes of chronic illnesses. They work holistically, considering the full picture of your physical, mental, emotional, and sometimes even your spiritual health. They provide "patient-centered" care, which means they spend time learning about you, your lifestyle, your medical history, family history, and your needs in order to find a solution to your heath problems that's personalized to you.
Learn more about functional medicine doctors here.
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Medical Questions for doctors to give to the people would love to hear the answers. Starting with the questions from My Journey book
1) What are cells, and how do they function? What can we do to maintain healthy cells? What are the factors of possible change?
2) What is a neurotransmitter? And how does it connect?
3) If you have trouble with something as a child, will a brain injury make it worse? Or will we digress?
4) What are hormones? And how do we balance them and keep them balanced?
5) When aging, how do we tell the difference between unnecessary health issues verses natural issues with aging?
6) Where does disease start? Many functional medicine doctors are saying that around 70% of health issues start in the gut, and 30% start in the brain.
7) How do people find doctors who can help patients turn their lives/health around, leading to healing?
8) Can some addictions be cured by balancing your hormones? Or is it more complicated?
9) Freedom with food. How does America get back its freedom to eat real, natural foods again that are not covered or sprayed with poison, and it is causing other issues like leaky gut, which can wreak havoc on the body?
10) What are ADD/ADHD, autism and dyslexia and how do we reverse or stabilize them, versus struggling an living on medications?
11) Allergies. Is there a difference between food sensitivity and allergies to foods? And how do we find out our sensitivity?
12) Emotions. How do we balance our emotions? Does a balance in hormones help?
13) Inflammation. How do we find and treat and balance inflammation?
14) What should we do to reverse or stabilize type 1 or type 2 diabetes? And what are the connections between “type 3” diabetes: Alzheimer's?
15) Vision. Can we improve it?
16) Neurological health issues. Are they just treating the symptoms?
More Questions to follow
17) How is herpes 1 complex an instigator to Alzheimer's? It is said that most people have herpes 1, why do some people suffer from it, and most people don’t? Where does the virus live and what do people need to do to fight it?
18) Cancer. Is cancer a tumor? What is the difference in the tumors staging benign and malignant? Where does cancer first develop? How do you create a healthy immune system and a soil so that cancer doesn’t grow?
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