Natural Rhythms Functional Cardiology | Colorado Center for Functional Medicine

Why are we urged to hold our horses on wide spread use of hydroxychloroquine?

It’s out there and used for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. We are in April 2020 , the pandemic is in force, and some people are getting it for Covid-19 infection. It’s not just that it is hard to be sure how well hydroxychloroquine works against the virus. The...

Covid-19 and Blood Pressure Medications.

The ACE2 enzyme has a relationship to corona virus infections including Covid-19. There has been a suggestion on the internet that ACE inhibitor and ARB medications for hypertension can increase ACE2 and increase the risk of Covid-19 infection. Now people are asking...

What the relationship of Covid 19 and heart disease teaches us.

There are 2 aspects of Covid 19 infection that have important interactions with heart disease. These interactions have unexpected implication for the treatment of people with infection and provide clues for developing therapies. The first discussion relates to the...

There is more that you can do to protect against corona virus, balance your immune system.

Corona virus is now in Colorado and increasingly in other communities in the United States. At this point it's obvious that we need to be mindful and prepare for the likelihood that this infection may impact your life or the life of those you care about. Efforts to...

The Zantac recall and why it doesn’t make sense to rely on prescription medication to treat chronic disease.

According to a study at the Mayo Clinic 70% of Americans take prescription medications. According to the CDC in 2017 91% of people over age 65 took prescription medication, 67% took more than three medications, and 41% took more than five. For those over 45 years old...