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By Jennifer Engels, MD
What is Sleep Hygiene and How Can You Achieve It?
Before talking about sleep hygiene and how to achieve it, perhaps we first need to emphasize the importance of getting an adequate amount of sleep. Stated simply, getting adequate sleep is crucial to maintaining both your men...
By Jennifer Engels, MD
You perhaps have heard there’s a connection between sugar consumption and the risk of cancer, and you should avoid all foods that are high in sugar. But is that true? The answer is complicated, and without getting too far into the scientific technicalities, we’ll try expl...
By Jennifer Engels, MD
When people ask me, what is Functional Medicine? I say it is the science of creating health.
Instead, what most of us experience today is conventional medicine, which focuses on diagnosis and treatment. It is what I, and all other doctors in practice today, learned in medica...
By Jennifer Engels, MD
Have you seen this month’s Living Magazine’s Annual Special Addition of Leading Women in Frisco & Plano?
Be sure to check out page 40…
By Jennifer Engels, MD
During the course of their lives, women must navigate varying hormonal imbalances and changes. Hormones are used throughout the body to control various functions, and from puberty to pregnancy and through perimenopause and menopause, these fluctuations never stop. In this...
By Jennifer Engels, MD
For a host of reasons – spiritual, emotional and physical – humans have engaged in fasting for thousands of years, and in recent years the practice has been given new life through what is called intermittent fasting (IF). People are using IF to lose weight, improve their heal...
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“I was absolutely fascinated,” Engels says, “by this new style of medicine that saw the patient as a whole biological system rather focusing on only one organ system at a time, such as Cardiology. This was a complete paradigm shift from conventional medicine and how I was trained.”
