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At Mountain View Vital Medicine, patients often arrive puzzled by fatigue, skin flare-ups, or mood dips that seem unrelated to anything in their lives. More often than not, the trail leads straight to the gut. The digestive tract acts as mission control for the rest...

Setting Health Goals for the New Year With Mountain View Vital Medicine   For some reason, a new calendar year always brings a certain spark of possibility. Fresh goals, new beginnings, and maybe even a fancy new planner that still smells like paper and hope....

Menopause may be a natural stage of life, but as anyone who has been there can attest, it doesn’t always feel very natural.

According to the CDC, being awake for 17 hours can lead to cognitive and motor impairments equivalent to a blood alcohol content of 0.05%

“Drink eight glasses of water a day.” Sounds simple enough, right? But there’s a catch: water is only one part of the hydration equation.

Your brain called. It wants balance. Let’s get this out of the way first: anxiety and depression are not just “in your head.”

There’s a smarter, more holistic path forward, one that blends science and nature to help your body do what it was built to do: heal.

Despite everything our liver does for us, we tend to forget all about it until something goes terribly wrong.

Sound familiar? A common thread among these sorts of issues is something deceptively simple: chronic inflammation.

Do you find yourself longing for a nap before you’ve even made it to lunchtime? Are you constantly running on caffeine and wishful thinking?