Robin Berzin, MD, is the American founding CEO of Parsley Health, a medical practice specializing in functional medicine. According to Berzin, functional medicine integrates holistic and medical treatments for a patient’s whole health.
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Parsley founder Robin Berzin MD describes the unique approach of Functional Medicine - using the best practices from western and eastern medicines to find the root cause of illness and disease.
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So often stress is considered an amorphous gray area—something we can’t put our finger on or measure that gets dismissed as not being “real.” But I believe that what we think and feel, and how long we think it or feel it, determines our health.
When it comes to sex drive, specifically, hormonal changes are not the only factor. Many things affect libido—from energy and inflammation to mood, body perception, and relationship status.
Parsley Health Founder Dr. Robin Berzin speaks about the Health Coach role in Functional Medicine.
The word “biohacking” may conjure images of Silicon Valley coders in a computer lab and mad-scientist–esque experiment scenes, but in reality, it’s about the tiny ways you can improve your body inside and out.
At Parsley Health, meditation is prescribed by your doctor the same way an antibiotic or an order for a blood draw would be. This makes us unique in the world of Western medicine-even radical.
"Adrenal fatigue" describes a disruption of the adrenal glands' ability to make cortisol (a stress hormone) in the right amounts at the right times. Chronic stress, an unhealthy diet, and general inflammation are all thought to contribute to it. Here are the signs you might be dealing with this too.
The effects of stress remain on the fringes of medicine today, despite reams of research as to the toxic effects of chronic stress on the body.
Instead of creating medication dependency, Robin finds that healthcare is most effective in nutrition, wellness and prevention. Further, she helps patients develop the most optimal health regimen through holistic analysis and research.
In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Robin Berzin dive deep into the topic of acne. They talk about the gut-skin connection and what role our gut health plays when it comes to acne.
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