Healing from Within Houston

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How Healing From Within was established

Have you recently been diagnosed with an “autoimmune” condition? Have you spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars going from doctor to doctor, and there seems to be no solution except taking a pill that will mask your symptoms? The trouble with this, is one pill will lead to another, and then another and then another. Before long, you could even be taking medicine for side effects that are caused from the first medications and still be no better. In fact, you could be worse!

My name is Melody McClain, and I am Family Nurse Practitioner. I became a NP because I wanted to help people. However, I noticed while in my clinical rotations, that the doctors were not successfully able to help the difficult patients. They didn’t know what to do with them, except prescribe a pill to mask their symptoms and then refer them to another specialist. I actually had one doctor tell me I was taking too much time with his patients, that I needed to copy and paste in the patient’s electronic record and move on to the next. I was appalled. THIS was not why I went into medicine! I decided then and there that I would not work in conventional medicine, but open my own functional medicine practice. Thus, Healing From Within was established in 2016.

I also had a husband who was getting no better with conventional medicine. In fact, he was getting worse. He had a rheumatologist for his arthritis symptoms. He had a neurologist for his seizures. I kept asking…for 20 years…are these two not related? Surely they are! The doctors had no answers. Come to find out, I discovered he had underlying Lyme Disease. THIS was the cause for the autoimmune gouty arthritis and the unexplained seizures.

I had a daughter who, by the age of 10, had broken several bones in her body. The orthopedist we saw teased me that I was trying to get my own wing in his clinic. I would ask her pediatrician, “Why are her bones breaking so easily? Is there something wrong?” For years he would blow it off and tell me not to worry, that some kids are just clumsy. It took that daughter developing vitiligo at the age of 18 before I realized that her gut was not absorbing, her vitamin D levels were chronically low, and she had hypothyroid. The underlying cause of the autoimmune vitiligo and hypothyroid? Imbalanced gut flora. This could have been prevented if we would have known about functional medicine back then.

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