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Fibromyalgia affects about 6 million Americans, causing chronic pain, fatigue, sleep issues, brain fog, depression and painful tender points throughout the body. Unfortunately, conventional medicine tends to focus only on managing your symptoms through pain medications and antidepressants. Integrative medicine, however, seeks to determine the root cause of fibromyalgia and other chronic diseases, by treating…

Omega-3s exist within the larger umbrella of dietary fats. A lot of people tend to think of ‘fat’ in a negative context, but these types of fats are necessary and very healthy. We all need them in our diets, yet they tend to be lacking in most people’s diets.  There are three omega-3 fatty acids…

We want to wish everyone a safe and fun holiday week.  As the year ends I’ve put together some of the most common health topics my patients bring up.  This time of year we usually start to think about how to be healthier.  We start making our resolutions, and exercise often tops the list of…

About two years ago we began to implement a comprehensive diagnostic health panel from Boston Heart Diagnostics.  What started as a test I ordered for patients with high cholesterol or at high risk for cardiovascular disease, has now become a test I want every patient to experience.   It starts with a basic lipid panel but…

Read what Dr. Dwight Lundell has to say about the real causes of heart disease below:   We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a…

With summer just around the corner, you may be thinking it’s time to start losing weight. You’re not alone! Many people come to us this time of the year for help managing their weight. Losing weight is going to help you look and feel better, but that’s not the only reason to do it. Unfortunately…

At Carolina Integrative Medicine it is our mission and philosophy to treat each individual as whole person and provide a means to bring a healthy balance to all of the systems that provide human vitality. We often hear symptoms from our patients that simply have not been alleviated in a medical facility which deals with…

With the holidays well behind us now, many of our patients are coming in trying to make good on New Year’s resolutions. At the top of the resolution list is weight loss; an important goal to work towards not just because of the health risks associated with excess weight, but also the more obvious feelings…