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To say that we all have some significant concerns right now is an understatement. We’re worried about how long this dystopian period in all of our lives is going to last, how we’re going to pay our bills, and what life post-COVID-19 is going to look like. And of course, we all worry if we or a loved one is…

Updated 3.21.20 Please note that this information is not a substitute for the continually updated official information from appropriate health authorities including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, nor for your primary care provider. I know you’ve been waiting to hear from me on how to prevent and treat COVID-19 naturally, particularly the herbs…

Updated January 18, 2020 Let me start by telling you a typical story in which a hypothyroid patient would have benefitted from the right testing. A patient came into my practice feeling fatigued, moody, was having heavy periods, no libido, and was bothered by constipation. She also wasn’t sleeping well – waking up too early in the morning and unable…

“Dr. Aviva, I’ve been given a Hashimoto’s diagnosis – what should I do?” is a question I hear often because it’s one that brings a lot of women to my website, social media pages, and to my medical practice, or it’s a diagnosis I sometimes give after a woman has struggled with symptoms and no answers often for months or…

Originally published 2014, Updated December 11, 2019 Acetaminophen (Tylenol). Most people reach for it for everyday headaches like it’s no big deal, and 2/3 of women have used it in pregnancy. Yet acetaminophen is not benign. For example, it is one of the major contributors to liver disease in the US each year. Acetaminophen has also long been considered generally…

First Published December 11, 2018 – Updated August 20, 2019 How we feel shapes a tremendous amount of our life experience, what we believe is possible in terms of our happiness, success, and even health, and even what people and experiences we attract to ourselves. It took me a long time to discover that I have a lot of control…

If you’ve been given an HPV diagnosis or have been told that you have ‘precancerous’ cervical changes or cervical dysplasia, there’s a good chance you’re freaking out. It’s a scary thing to hear, and often, the information isn’t delivered with the whole picture: namely that most HPV infections clear up on their own and most pre-cancerous lesions resolve spontaneously, with…

I devote some time each day to keeping up with the latest on conventional diagnostic and treatment methods, along with the most recent research on botanicals, supplements, and other natural approaches to healing. It’s what I do to be the best integrative physician I can be. This is no small feat, because as an MD trained in internal and family…

Thyroid disease affects an estimated 30 million Americans, mostly women. Women are five to eight times more likely than men to be affected by hypothyroidism; recent statistics say that as many as one in eight women is likely to develop hypothyroidism in her lifetime. Hashimoto’s, an autoimmune condition is by far the most prevalent form. Having hypothyroidism can cause troublesome, and…

    A lot of us in the functional medicine world talk about ‘eating a rainbow.’ This refers to getting a daily dose of as many  bright colored veggies and fruits as possible to get all those healthy polyphenols and other plant constituents that create those colors into our body on a regular basis. Why? Because they heal, nourish, and…