Comprehensive Integrative Healthcare, 521 N. Virginia Avenue, Eureka, MO (2025)

12/10/2025

🎉 NEW 5-STAR REVIEW ALERT~NEUROPATHY!!🎉
Nothing lights up our day like hearing how our care is making a difference. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

To everyone who takes a moment to share their experience with us—THANK YOU. 💙
Your reviews help others find relief, answers, and a path forward. We’re grateful for you!

12/08/2025

Gratitude is one of the most powerful tools we have for supporting health and healing. When we pause long enough to notice what’s going right, the brain shifts out of stress mode and the body follows. 💛✨

Here’s a simple real-world practice we often recommend:
Start your morning by naming three things you’re grateful for.
They can be small and ordinary — a quiet moment, a warm drink, or the people who support you. ☕️🌿

This 10-second practice can calm the nervous system, elevate mood, and set a positive tone for the entire day. 🙌

At our clinic, we focus on whole-person healing — and emotional habits like gratitude are just as important as the physical ones.
Try it tomorrow morning… your brain will thank you. 🙏💫

12/05/2025

🎥 Behind the Scenes at Studio STL!
Yesterday Kayla and Dr. Patton had the chance to do a little show & tell on insidestudiostl on the segment and we featured some of the tools we use every day to help our patients heal — and it was such a fun morning! 💙

✨ Low-Level Light Therapy (LLLT)
This therapy is built around infrared light and is actually one of the first infrared light therapy devices cleared by the FDA back in 1994. It now has 25+ peer-reviewed studies supporting its ability to increase circulation, stimulate angiogenesis (new blood vessel creation), decrease pain, and support tissue repair. 🌟

✨ Nerve Re-Education Stimulation
This device uses 7.83 Hz, which mimics the Earth’s natural resonance — often referred to as the language of the nerves. It is used by over 55,000 doctors and 300 hospitals. This frequency helps retrain the nerves to communicate more gracefully again. It’s like bringing a symphony back into tune — restoring proper signaling, improving function, and reducing pain. 🎶⚡️

One of the things we’re most excited about is that these tools can be part of our home-care programs, allowing patients to take back control of their health without needing to come into the office multiple days a week. This is truly doctor-inspired DIY healthcare — and it’s a big reason we see such incredible results with neuropathy and all of the associated symptoms like numbness, tingling, burning, cramping, electrical light pain, balance problems and falls, nerve damage after surgery, back pain, knee pain, hand pain, and shoulder pain🙌

If you’re curious about what we shared or want to learn more about these technologies, send us a message!

12/04/2025

✨ Huge Congratulations to Melissa! ✨

We are so proud to celebrate Melissa Portwood on completing her Blueprint Nutrition Certification! She put in the work, asked all the right questions, and kept us laughing through every step of the journey.

This certification will only elevate the incredible care she already provides—helping our patients reduce inflammation, lose weight, heal more deeply, and feel better from the inside out. She’s officially becoming our go-to for nutrition support, and we couldn’t be more excited for her.

Join us in congratulating Melissa on this amazing accomplishment! 💙

12/03/2025

✨ Happy Birthday to our Neuro Rehab Lead, Moira. ✨

Your compassion and dedication elevate our clinic every single day. Thank you for the care you bring to our patients and the grace you bring to our team.

Wishing you a beautiful year ahead — we are truly grateful for you. 💙

11/18/2025

Neuropathy is everywhere… and most people don’t even realize that the symptoms they’re experiencing are actually neuropathy.

That’s why our dinner seminar tonight is completely full — because this condition is affecting our community at staggering rates, and most patients are told there’s “nothing to do” except medications that don’t fix the root cause.

But that’s not the full story.
There are answers.
And we’re grateful to be one of the clinics in the country helping patients regain their life, hope, and function.

Here are some of the most common neuropathy symptoms we see every single day:

🔹 Numbness or tingling in the feet or hands
🔹 Burning, stabbing, or “electric” pain
🔹 Pins and needles sensations
🔹 Cramping or shooting pains
🔹 Restless legs or inability to get comfortable at night
🔹 Balance problems or feeling unsteady
🔹 Cold feet or hands, even in warm rooms
🔹 Feeling like you’re walking on socks, pebbles, or “bunched up” fabric
🔹 Loss of coordination
🔹 Weakness in the legs
🔹 Swelling, redness, or changes in skin or nail quality
🔹 Difficulty sleeping due to nerve discomfort
🔹 Increased sensitivity to touch or temperature

Neuropathy is common — but living with it doesn’t have to be your new normal.

At Comprehensive Integrative Healthcare, we specialize in helping patients understand the why behind their nerve damage and what can be done to actually improve nerve function — not just mask symptoms.

If you or someone you love is struggling with these symptoms, reach out. You deserve answers, real solutions, and a team who actually knows what to do with this condition.

📞 636-495-1930
🌐 www.cih.health

11/18/2025

Our Story & Why We Practice the Way We Do📖

When we first started practicing, patients looked very different than they do today. Over the years, we’ve watched our nation become sicker—people are now walking through our doors with more diagnoses, on more medications, and further from the life and health they want and deserve.

In the mid-2000s, we made a decision that changed everything.

We chose to stop managing sickness and start restoring health.

We went back to the drawing board—committed to learning new techniques, studying root-cause medicine, and building a practice designed for patients who had been ignored, dismissed, or left hopeless by a system that only manages symptoms with more and more prescriptions.

We began focusing on the patients who:
• Had “tried everything”…
• Were frustrated, confused, and still suffering…
• Wanted someone to walk beside them—not just write a prescription and send them out the door.

So we created a place where we could lock arms with our patients—guide them through real healing—and help them make the lifestyle changes that true transformation requires.

What We’ve Witnessed Since Then…

We’ve had the privilege of watching:
✅ Patients lose weight sustainably
✅ Blood pressure and blood sugars normalize
✅ Neuropathy symptoms disappear
✅ Autoimmune diseases go into remission
✅ Chronic pain decrease—or even vanish completely
✅ Canes and walkers get left behind
✅ People restart exercise, hobbies, and life again
✅ And over and over, we hear: “I haven’t felt this good in years.”

It has been the most rewarding—and the hardest—work of our lives. And we absolutely love it.

Our Mission Today

This is no longer just a practice—it’s a mission.
A mission to rescue people from a broken healthcare system.
To restore hope where it’s been lost.
To see conditions improve and symptoms go away—not just be managed for the rest of someone’s life.

Recently, we were honored to be recognized as one of the top practices in the country doing this kind of work. We are humbled, grateful, and more motivated than ever to keep learning, growing, and helping more people.

We always joke that if we won the lottery, we’d still show up to work. Because this our purpose.

And we’re just getting started. ✨✨

11/17/2025

✨ Imagine walking into the New Year already feeling lighter, stronger, and more confident… because you’ve already hit your weight-loss resolution. ✨

Yes—this is absolutely possible, and our patients do it every single year.
Start the day after Thanksgiving… and by January 8th, you could be celebrating 20–35 pounds gone in just six weeks.

No waiting.
No “starting Monday.”
No New Year’s guilt.
Just real results, real momentum, and a totally new you stepping into 2026.

Our program is designed for busy, overwhelmed people who want a simple, structured, science-based plan that gets results quickly—without crazy workouts, expensive meal plans, or guesswork.

If you’re ready to:
💙 Feel in control again
💙 Reduce inflammation
💙 Boost metabolic health
💙 See the scale finally move
💙 Walk into January already winning…

We would love to guide you every step of the way.

📞 Call our office at 636-495-1930
📩 Or send us a message for details and next steps

Your transformation can start today—let’s make your New Year’s resolution something you reach, not something you chase. 💫

11/17/2025

🌱 Our Food Has Changed — And So Have Our Diseases

It’s wild to think about, but most of what fills modern grocery stores simply didn’t exist 100 years ago. Ultra-processed foods, seed oils, refined sugars, artificial additives, dyes, shelf-stable snacks, fast foods, and chemical preservatives were barely part of the human diet prior to the 20th century.

And here’s what’s even more interesting…

📊 Research Shows a Clear Link Between Ultra-Processed Foods & Modern Disease

While the exact “90%” statistic is more of a commentary than a literal number, the trend is absolutely backed by research:

1️⃣ Ultra-Processed Food Intake Is Directly Linked to Chronic Disease

• A 2023 study in The BMJ found that higher consumption of ultra-processed foods is strongly associated with cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and early mortality (based on data from over 200,000 people).
• A 2019 study in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that every 10% increase in ultra-processed food intake increased risk of overall mortality by 14%.
• A 2022 study in Frontiers in Nutrition linked ultra-processed foods to increased systemic inflammation — the foundation of most modern chronic conditions.

2️⃣ These Foods Barely Existed a Century Ago

• Industrial seed oils (canola, soybean, corn) were introduced between 1911–1950.
• Packaged snack foods exploded between 1950–1970.
• The average American now eats 50–60% of daily calories from ultra-processed foods (NIH data).

Meanwhile, rates of…
✔ autoimmune disease
✔ obesity
✔ metabolic syndrome
✔ heart disease
✔ cancer
✔ neurodegenerative conditions

…have risen dramatically during the same timeframe.

While correlation isn’t causation, the overlap is hard to ignore.

3️⃣ Our Bodies Haven’t Evolved to Handle This Type of Diet

Human genetics have barely changed in 100 years — but our food system has transformed completely.
We now consume foods:
• with no nutritional density
• loaded with synthetic ingredients
• packed with inflammatory seed oils
• high in sugar and chemicals our grandparents’ bodies never encountered

It’s no surprise inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, and chronic illness have skyrocketed.

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✨ The Good News? We Can Reclaim Our Health With Real Food.

At Comprehensive Integrative Healthcare, we see this daily:

When people shift toward whole, nutrient-dense, unprocessed foods, inflammation drops, energy rises, pain decreases, gut function improves, and chronic symptoms begin to reverse.

Simple principles that still work

• Eat foods your great-grandparents would recognize
• Prioritize protein + vegetables + fruit + healthy fats
• Avoid ultra-processed ingredients
• Reduce sugar and refined carbs
• Support your mitochondria and immune system
• Use targeted supplements to fill the gaps modern soil depletion has created

Modern diseases rise when modern foods dominate.
And health returns when real food returns.

11/16/2025

Let’s Talk Flu Vaccines~Cleveland Clinic Study + CIH Approach to Immune Strength

There’s a new Cleveland Clinic study on the 2024–25 flu shot that has been circulating widely, so let’s break it down simply — and then talk about what we can control this flu season. 💭

📊 Cleveland Clinic Study (53,000+ employees)

Researchers followed 53,402 healthcare employees at Cleveland Clinic from Oct 2024–Mar 2025. Here’s what they observed:
• About 82% received the seasonal flu vaccine.
• Roughly 2% of the entire employee group had a confirmed flu infection.
• The vaccinated group had more positive tests than the unvaccinated group.
• This resulted in a negative effectiveness estimate for infection prevention in this specific group. (vaccine effectiveness of –26.9%)

🔍 Important context:
• This is a preprint (not peer-reviewed).
• It doesn’t measure severity, hospitalization, or outcomes beyond basic infection.
• It cannot prove cause and effect.
• Experts note potential testing bias (vaccinated workers being more likely to test).
• Even the authors state it shouldn’t guide clinical decisions on its own.

So — interesting early data, but not the full story, and not a reason to panic or jump to conclusions.

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🍂 How We Support Immune Strength at CIH

Regardless of vaccine decisions (which are personal and should be discussed with your doctor), flu season is always the perfect time to rebuild the terrain: your immune resilience, metabolic health, gut balance, and stress load.

Here’s what we prioritize in our clinic:

1️⃣ Blood Sugar Control

Big sugar spikes can temporarily suppress immune function.
We focus on:
• Protein-rich meals
• Lots of veggies
• Limiting liquid sugars
• Treats in true moderation

2️⃣ Anti-Inflammatory, Nutrient-Dense Food

Your immune system is built from the nutrients you consume.
We emphasize:
• Clean proteins
• Leafy greens and colorful produce
• Healthy fats
• Reducing processed foods & seed oils

3️⃣ Stress + Nervous System Regulation

Chronic stress is one of the biggest drains on immunity.
Tools we teach:
• Breathwork
• Walking
• Morning light exposure
• Micro-breaks throughout the day
• Better boundaries with screens

4️⃣ Sleep Optimization

Immune cells reset, divide, and repair during deep sleep.
We teach patients to:
• Keep consistent sleep/wake times
• Darken the bedroom
• Reduce night-time blue light
• Prioritize morning outdoor light

5️⃣ Red Light Therapy for Recovery

We incorporate red & near-infrared light therapy to support:
• Cellular energy
• Tissue repair
• Inflammatory balance

It’s not a vaccine, but it’s a powerful supportive tool for resilience.

6️⃣ Targeted Supplement Support

We use nutraceuticals that have strong research, clinical consistency, and clean formulation standards — especially during viral season.

⭐ Orthomolecular OrthoMune

A clinically formulated blend we use frequently to support immune readiness.
It includes:
• Vitamin D
• Zinc
• Quercetin
• NAC
• Elderberry

This combination helps support immune modulation, antioxidant capacity, and a balanced inflammatory response — all crucial during high viral circulation.

⭐ Orthomolecular Viracid

This is our rapid-response supplement for the first 24–48 hours of feeling rundown.
It contains:
• High-potency vitamin A & C
• L-lysine
• Echinacea
• Astragalus
• And targeted botanicals

We use Viracid when someone feels like they’re “coming down with something,” to support mucosal immunity, lymphatic activity, and early immune signaling.

Both products come from Orthomolecular — a brand we trust because of their purity, potency, and clinical track record.

(Not medical advice. Always talk with your provider before starting supplements.)

💬 Bottom Line

Flu season isn’t just about a shot or no shot.
It’s about the health of the terrain — your metabolic health, your gut, your stress response, your sleep, and your daily habits.

Your immune system is living tissue… and it gets stronger with the right support.

If you want help building a personalized nutrient, lifestyle, and supplement plan that supports immune health all season long, our team is here for you. 💛

11/15/2025

☀️ Sunlight: Nature’s Original Medicine

Most people think sunlight’s only job is to give us Vitamin D… but the truth is, its impact goes far beyond that.

Getting natural sunlight (especially early in the day) helps:
✨ Relieve pain
✨ Regulate hormones
✨ Strengthen bones
✨ Boost the immune system
✨ Enhance nutrient absorption
✨ Improve sleep
✨ Balance your circadian rhythm
✨ Support wound healing
✨ Reduce symptoms of depression

Our bodies were designed to thrive in sync with light. So instead of fearing the sun, learn to use it wisely—just a few minutes of natural light daily can be one of the simplest and most powerful wellness tools available.

🌞 Pro tip: Step outside in the morning for 5–10 minutes of sunlight before reaching for your phone or coffee—it can reset your hormones, energy, and mood for the entire day.

11/15/2025

✨ Lose Weight Without Exercise? YES — And Here’s How! ✨
Most people think weight loss has to start with the gym… but the truth is, your daily habits move the needle more than you think.

If you’re focusing on healing your metabolism, balancing hormones, reducing inflammation, or jump-starting fat loss, these foundations matter big time:

🥩 Eat more protein
Keeps you full longer, stabilizes blood sugar, and supports lean muscle.

🍽️ Control portion sizes
Small adjustments add up. Balanced meals = balanced metabolism.

💧 Stay hydrated
Sometimes you’re not hungry… you’re dehydrated. Water boosts energy and digestion.

🍩 Cut out processed foods
Less inflammation. More energy. Better weight loss.

🍵 Eat more fiber
Helps detox, improves gut health, and keeps cravings in check.

😴 Get enough sleep
Sleep is when the hormones that burn fat actually reset! Don’t skip this one.

🍬 Reduce sugar intake
Sugar spikes insulin (your fat-storage hormone). Lower sugar = lower cravings + better results.

🍽️ Eat slowly and mindfully
Your brain needs time to catch up with your stomach. This one change alone can reduce overeating.

🌙 Avoid late-night snacking
Late eating disrupts sleep + metabolism. Your body needs that overnight “repair window.”

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If you’re ready for a simple, realistic, sustainable approach to weight loss that fits your lifestyle (and doesn’t require living in the gym), our team at Comprehensive Integrative Healthcare specializes in exactly this.

💛 Personalized plans
💛 Hormone-supportive strategies
💛 Gut-focused, anti-inflammatory nutrition
💛 Science-backed, real-life results

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