PrivaMD | Blog
Information to help you succeed on your health and wellness journey.
The PrivaMD blog is dedicated to providing our patients and our community with helpful information and tips to help guide you on your journey to complete health and wellness. Whether you have a question about a particular service, like acupuncture or IV nutrition therapy, or you’re looking for tips to promote better sleep or healthy eating, check out the posts below for answers to all of your wellness questions.
Why Is It Always About You?
COVID-19 has impacted all our lives, emotionally, politically, financially, medically, spiritually, and socially. Directly or indirectly, we or someone we know is self-isolating at home to flatten the curve or is quarantined in a room because someone is sick or has...
What Are the Best Treatments for Sunspots on My Face?
Sunspots are a common concern for many. These dark spots can vary in shape and size, and appear on the skin as a result of sun exposure. For that reason, most of us tend to see sunspots on skin that sees the most sun, like the backs of your hands, shoulders, arms, and...
See Me, Hear Me | Practicing Mindfulness with PrivaMD
To be seen and heard in the world means that we can really step into who we truly are and therefore be able to give back to the world our gifts and talents. It is sweet and touching to feel fully understood by another human being. While some people wear their hearts...
Family Medicine vs. Internal Medicine: What’s the Difference, and What is Right For Me?
Choosing a quality primary care physician who you like, and who can provide the very best care for you is important to your long-term health. Even if you’re a very healthy person, having a primary care physician means you always have someone to call with any...
Holding Space While Observing Your Worldview
Holding space is the process of witnessing and validating someone else’s emotional state while simultaneously being present to your own. A person’s worldview is inherited characteristics, background experiences, life situations, values, attitudes, and habits...
Bringing Balance to Ourselves
Perhaps you have noticed that over the past few months, we collectively are not being allowed to suppress our feelings and emotions any longer. What is coming up in you, moment-to-moment, day-to-day? What emotions are coming to the surface? Even the...
PrivaMD | Physicians is proud to partner with Advanced Thermal Imaging!
PrivaMD | Physicians is proud to partner with Advanced Thermal Imaging, the only thermal imaging office in Western Michigan, to offer a full spectrum of body thermal assessments. Infrared imaging, known as thermography, is specific evaluation of skin temperature...
Effectively Managing Stress
Your mind and body are powerful allies. Have you ever stated, this stress is “killing me”? Have you ever felt that “pit” in your stomach before a big event? Or maybe butterflies when meeting someone for the first time? How about the racing of your heart when...
What is a BBL Laser and What Do BBL Treatments Do?
Our skin is an amazing organ — and the most visible. It protects us from environmental harm, is wonderfully sensitive and beautiful, and it’s a living document of our history and experience. Skin also has another important function: it often flags internal...
What is Functional Nutrition?
Functional nutrition goes beyond the conventional way of calorie counting, macronutrient tracking, portion restriction, or My Plate standards. There is no one-size-fits-all approach because everyone is unique! Functional nutrition is patient-centered, meaning it is a...
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