Dr. Deborah Wood-Schade, D.C, C.C.S.P.

04/12/2025

04/03/2025

02/19/2025

That face!

02/19/2025

Lol

03/28/2023

Amazing

"Waiting hours under tropical rain, I got this Golden-tailed Sapphire singing on a perch!" 🌈
Location: Wildsumaco, Ecuador

Credit: Emin Yogurtcuoglu (https://www.instagram.com/birddetective/)

03/28/2023

Hmmm its got
Me thinking!

🤧

03/28/2023

Too pretty to eat!

Very nice Focaccia bread art 🙂 See the recipe & more: http://creativedesignjoy.com/yummy-focaccia-bread-recipe/ 🙂

08/12/2020

The awareness of the importance of the gut to overall health has skyrocketed in the past decade. One recent example of the surge in knowledge about the connection between gut health and systemic health is rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Inflammatory biomarkers are known to emerge years before a definitive diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis is possible. One theory dating back to the beginning of the 20th century suggested that RA emerges from mucosal tissues and dysbiosis, and only later do problems occur in the synovial fluid and joints. More recent research supports this chain of events!

07/09/2020

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06/25/2020

Self-care isn’t selfish, it is necessary to stay strong, healthy, and grounded. Having a healthy relationship with yourself can improve your confidence, mental state, productivity, sleeping habits; and overall health. Some ways to put this into practice are journaling, alone time, personal days, eating healthy, and treating yourself to something that you enjoy once in a while!

06/25/2020

If you have the wrong bacteria in your gut, this may be the reason that you are struggling to lose weight. Restoring gut microbial balance can reset the body’s metabolism. If you’re struggling to lose weight, consider visiting your Functional Medicine doctor to have your gut bacteria checked out.

06/19/2020

Anxiety is a symptom—a symptom that has a root cause.
In functional medicine we seek to unearth the root cause and address the system at that level. It’s like having a splinter in your foot…do you remove the splinter or just take the painkillers to shut the body up?
Now if you are living with anxiety then you might be thinking you’d take a thousand splinters in the foot than one more debilitating episode. We understand that.
But supporting the root cause doesn’t mean ignoring symptoms or leaving you to deal with them.
Supporting anxiety with functional medicine means figuring out why you have the symptoms in the first place, while also offering you some relief and tools to manage the anxiety in the day to day. Please reach out and ask us how we can support you.