Dr.Gabriela Pichardo

04/07/2023

Me! Lol

Yep!

02/22/2023

Inflammation is part of the body’s natural defense system and can be a good thing in balance.

However, when your immune system shifts out of balance, inflammation can run rampant—causing a chronic, smoldering fire inside your body that contributes to disease, weight gain, and more.

In additon to taking these supplements to help reduce inflammation, what we eat is one of the biggest levers we have when it comes to driving or reducing inflammation.

Industrial food drives inflammation, oxidative stress, hormone and neurotransmitter imbalances, overloads your detoxification system, depletes your energy, damages your microbiome, and changes your gene expression to turn on disease-causing genes.

Real, whole, nutrient and phytonutrient-rich food does the opposite. It turns off inflammation, increases antioxidant systems, balances hormones and brain chemistry, boosts detoxification, increases energy, optimizes your microbiome, and turns on disease-preventing, health-promoting genes.

11/27/2022

People who eat or drink more foods with antioxidant flavonols, which are found in several fruits and vegetables as well as tea and wine, may have a slower rate of memory decline, according to a study published in the November 22, 2022, online issue of Neurology.

Something as simple as eating more fruits and vegetables and drinking more tea is an easy way for people to take an active role in maintaining their brain health.💪😉

What are flavonols?

Flavonols are a major class of the family of flavonoids, molecules that have interesting biological activity such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory, and vasodilatation effects, and they have been considered as potential anticancer agents.

Tea and wine are the primary dietary sources of flavonoids in eastern and western societies, respectively. Besides, leafy vegetables, onions, apples, berries, cherries, soybeans, and citrus fruits are considered an important source of dietary flavonoids.

🗯To read more about this👇👇👇

https://neurosciencenews.com/flavonols-memory-decline-21922

08/20/2022

Sharing a great and fantastic webinar coming up soon!

This webinar will address the recent articles on the serotonin hypothesis as well as other genomic components that contribute to depression and how to use genomics to develop a precision approach for treatment. It will touch on genomic root causes of depression including genes that contribute to cortisol, adrenaline, nutrient carriers, and methylation as well as how they can be addressed to improve outcomes.

The registration link is here:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/547053639171759630?source=GP

08/06/2022

This is truly amazing🙌 and we have seen great results with our own patients at Resilient Health. Dr Hausman-Cohen, our medical director contributed to this paper also and teaching other physician about the use of medical genomics for optimizing brain health.👩🏻‍⚕️💜

Background: Effective therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease are needed. However, previous clinical trials have pre-determined a single treatment modality, such as a drug candidate or therapeutic procedure, which may be unrelated to the primary drivers

04/13/2022

Recent interview I did for Voyage Austin. Sharing a little about me and my story😊💜.

Today we’d like to introduce you to Gabriela Pichardo. Gabriela, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin? I had a passion for medicine instilled in me at a very young age, with both my parents been doctors and seeing how successful they were...

01/08/2022

For the past 8 months (or so!) I have been practicing at Resilient Health, here in Austin. Can't believe this much time already has passed! 😁

Resilient Health, is a type of practice. I enjoy combining primary care with integrative and functional medicine. One of the things we offer is the use of medical genomics to offer a more personalized approach to your health either been a patient of ours or just doing it as a because you want to take charge of your health and getting to the of something that may have been afflicting you for many years.

✔So what is personalized genomic medicine?

Is a way to improve your health using your family history, medical history, genetic information and lifestyle.

The four P’s of personalized genomic medicine are:

🩺Personalized: risks are uniquely yours

🩺Predictive: predicts the chances of developing certain disorders

🩺Preventive: based on your results, changing specific lifestyle behaviors, offering healthy solutions to decrease disease risk.

🩺Participatory: requires your involvement.

And remember: "Your genetics load the gun but your lifestyle pulls the trigger."
Durante los últimos 8 meses (¡más o menos!) He estado practicando en Resilient Health, aquí en Austin. ¡No puedo creer que haya pasado tanto tiempo! 😁 Resilient Health, es un tipo de práctica de . Disfruto compaginando la atención primaria con la medicina integrativa y funcional.
Una de las cosas que ofrecemos es el uso de la genómica médica para ofrecer un enfoque más personalizado a tu salud ya sea siendo paciente nuestro o simplemente haciéndolo como un porque quieres hacerte cargo de tu salud y llegar a la de algo que puede haber estado afligiéndote durante muchos años.

✔ Entonces, ¿qué es la medicina genómica personalizada? Es una forma de mejorar su salud utilizando su historial familiar, historial médico, información genética y estilo de vida.

Las cuatro P de la medicina genómica personalizada son:
-Personalizado: los riesgos son exclusivamente suyos
-Predictivo: predice las posibilidades de desarrollar ciertos trastornos
-Preventivo: basado en sus resultados, cambiando comportamientos de estilo de vida específicos, ofreciendo soluciones saludables para disminuir el riesgo de enfermedades. -Participativo: requiere tu participación.

Y recuerde: "Tu genética carga el arma pero tu estilo de vida aprieta el gatillo".😉👩🏻‍⚕️👍

11/29/2021

When you are down or depressed,😕😭 exercise  may seem like the last thing you want to do but physical activity can have a profound effect on mental health.

✔Studies show that regular moderate Aerobic exercise alleviates depression as effectively as medication and may boost mood in healthy people.

✔It may work by triggering release of feel good chemicals call 𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕣phins; it also appears to mitigate inflammation.

✔In addition clinical trials show a link between regular physical activity and healthy cognitive function as well as lower risk for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

So go ahead, find a form of exercise either 🚶‍♀️, 🏃‍♂️, 🏊‍♀️ or 🚴‍♀️ that you enjoy and do it at least 30 minutes a day, as many days of the week you can. Healthy mind, healthy body👩🏻‍⚕️😉👍.

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Cuando estás deprimid@ o triste, 😭😔el ejercicio puede parecer lo último que desea hacer, pero la actividad física puede tener un efecto profundo en la salud mental.

✔ Los estudios muestran que el ejercicio aeróbico moderado regular alivia la depresión con la misma eficacia que los medicamentos y puede mejorar el estado de ánimo en personas sanas.

✔Puede funcionar desencadenando la liberación de sustancias químicas para sentirse bien llamadas 𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕣𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕤; también parece mitigar la inflamación.

✔ Además, los ensayos clínicos muestran un vínculo entre la actividad física regular y la función cognitiva saludable, así como un menor riesgo de enfermedad de Alzheimer y otras formas de demencia. Así que adelante, busque una forma de ejercicio, ya sea🚶‍♀️, 🏃‍♂️, 🏊‍♀️ o 🚴‍♀️ que disfrute hacer y hágalo al menos 30 minutos al día, todos los días de la semana que pueda. Mente Sana, cuerpo sano👩🏻‍⚕️😉👍.

11/29/2021

...Just stick to the basics 😉👍💛

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07/29/2021

06/19/2021

I haven't been as much on social media. Or at least posting and responding to messages and my emails on time. Focusing on my work, family and taking care of my own health. Guess I needed some time to recharge and to practice some and .

♡As like Deepak Chopra says: "𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓭 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓸𝓭𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓵 𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓼. 𝓐𝓷𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓮 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓴𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵 𝓸𝓷𝓮". This is what mind-body connection is all about.

So what exactly does it mean 🤔 "the mind-body connection"? This means that our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and attitudes can positively or negatively affect our bodies. There is plenty of research out there related to this.

Research has documented the mechanisms through which stressful emotions alter white blood cell function. Stress diminishes white blood cell response to viral infected cells and to cancer cells. Moreover, vaccination is less effective in those who are stressed and wounds heal less readily in those who are stressed. In my current practice I don't just want to.know how well a patient is eating, sleeping or exercising. I do want to dig a little deeper and know what kind of stressors they may face each day (if they have any) or if there is any past ones, such as past trauma. Anything that may drive up that cortisol which is our stress hormone. Which by the way is a common marker I check on many of my patients.

Saying all this, please don't forget to stop and listen to your mind and body and find some guidance if needed.
Yes there is medications, supplements that can help with this but I am a big fan of therapy and addressing the root cause and finding out what is actually driving that cortisol high or any of your flight and fight hormones. It took me some time to discover this for my own and starting to practice what I preach as they say😉. 💜

05/31/2021

La importancia de consumir prebioticos y probioticos 👩🏻‍⚕️

Cada vez más oímos hablar de Probióticos y Prebióticos a la hora de hablar de alimentación saludable. ¿Pero que son? ¿Cómo funcionan? Y lo más importante ¿Cómo lo incorporamos a nuestra dieta?

05/30/2021

I am a big fan of NAD 😁👍

Learn how to restore your NAD+ levels and improve how your cells function, produce energy and maintain and repair themselves.