Ava has always been a seeker, someone keen to carve out her own path and experience life in all its fullness. Today, you might find her spending time with her sons, practicing yoga or dancing to Pink Martini, her favorite music Latin station. But 15 years ago, you would have found her in a very…
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There she is: the supermom on Instagram. Impeccably coiffed and styled. Smiling serenely in her spotless house. Displaying the crafts she makes with her children or the healthy homemade meals she whips up nightly for her family. You don’t have to scroll further to know what comes next. Cloth diapers, Scandi wooden toys, holiday photoshoots…
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As someone wise once said, “knowledge is power.” And really, your health is no exception to that rule. So when it comes to figuring out why you haven’t been feeling as well as you used to, why would you settle for anything less than the most thorough diagnostics and most talented diagnosticians possible? Without having…
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Mary left her consultation with Dr. Young feeling invigorated. She was ready to make changes — big changes, if necessary — to reduce her risk of heart disease and get her health back on track. She wasted no time setting her new lifestyle in motion. “I made one really big change the second I walked…
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“My weight has been an issue my whole life,” says Mary, a 54-year-old Central California resident who became a patient of Young Naturopathic Center for Wellness earlier this year. “It goes back as far as I can remember.” She calls herself a “chunky monkey” of a child, born to Italian immigrants whose rich culinary culture…
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A year and a half ago, when a pandemic abruptly changed the world’s trajectory, Rae had no idea her life was about to take an even more unexpected turn. She’d set a goal for herself: use this time to recommit to fitness and transform her health for the better. A tick bite and subsequent Lyme…
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Rae considers herself one of the lucky ones. Despite her delayed Lyme diagnosis and the symptoms that had made her a shadow of her vibrant former self, she finally saw a path forward. A personal connection who also battled Lyme encouraged her to visit Dr. Young at Young Naturopathic Center for Wellness. “She said Dr.…
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In mid-March 2020, the San Francisco Bay Area became the first region in the nation to issue a ‘shelter in place’ order to curb the spread of COVID-19. It was six weeks after the area’s first known case of the novel coronavirus, and though officials insisted there was no reason for alarm, a frenzy began.…
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It’s a big question, and we don’t want to cause you any panic or additional stress, but it is important to take a rational look at your health, especially when we are in the middle of another COVID-19 wave. Even if COVID-19 were not an issue, pandemics are random by nature, and there is no…
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Life is full of stresses and strains and the truth is that stress can impact so many different health issues. It’s a factor in so many things that we see in our patient’s day today. Nothing’s really immune from the effects of stress…even sex! You’d think, sex would be a solution, but if your sex…
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