Toxic Mold Illness: Is Your Home Causing Your Mysterious Symptoms?
If you are suffering from chronic symptoms and struggled to find a proper diagnosis or relief, it might be time to examine your environment more closely.
Dr Hoffman is the medical director of The Hoffman Centre for Integrative Medicine. He is a leader in the field of integrative and functional medicine, applying his 7 Stages to Health and Transformation model in his approaches to chronic disease diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Bruce Hoffman is our Newest Certified Physician! | Press Release from Surviving Mold
Press Release From Surviving Mold: Dr. Hoffman is a family physician and director of the Hoffman Centre for Integrative Medicine in Calgary, Alberta. He was born and educated in South Africa, obtaining his medical degree from the University of Cape Town.
Hoffman Centre Team
At The Hoffman Centre for Integrative Medicine, we take the time to care for every level of your health. As you enter our private clinic, you will notice a calm relaxing atmosphere, friendly staff, and a level of compassion unique to Canadian health care.
Chronic Illness Begins with Environmental Toxins
Our bodies are in a constant state of flux – always in a give-and-take relationship with the outside world. That interchange never stops. The problem is the outside world has become increasingly filled with toxins.
Limitations of Traditional Medicine – Observation Two: It distorts the doctor/patient relationship
In our last post, we discussed how most diagnoses don’t just fall innocently out the sky at some point in life’s trajectory and how easy it is, once a diagnosis has been made, for patients to objectify the diagnosis as something separate from themselves, the choices they have made and the life they have lived.
Qualities of a Successful Patient. Do you want to be a successful patient?
“One of the great challenges in a doctor-patient relationship is how best to structure their interactions so that the patients get their needs met and their symptoms and diseases diagnosed and treated in a systematic and productive way while at the same time interfacing with the healthcare provider and their staff so that logistical errors…
Evidence-Based Medicine in the World of Mold Illness
The practice of evidence- based medicine (EBM) is held out as the gold standard of practice when it comes to evaluating how best to treat certain conditions. As this article will outline, nowhere is this standard in more disrepute than in the evidence – based practices currently in use on how best to treat mold…
Stress Can Lead to Weight Gain
When we are under a lot of stress, we are not only more likely to overeat but we are also more likely to eat foods that are high in sugar and fat. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have discovered a link between chronic stress and obesity; people who have high-stress levels produce…
Male Menopause is No One-Man Band
If all the hormones in the body work together like musical instruments in an orchestra, it means that male menopause is not only about low testosterone. The other players are also out of tune. If you’ve read about “male menopause”, you probably know about testosterone. In fact, in the first edition of Health Intelligence, a…
Anti-inflammatory Food Principles
It is now well established that food is far more than just the sum total of calories, macronutrients, micronutrients and phytonutrients. Food provides the key signaling switch for our genetic code. We ignore its extreme value and significance at our peril. The food you eat and the diet you follow is the key healing factor…