Welcome to the FIRST Newsletter for Healing Neurology
We love seeing you as patients in clinic and know that even more healing can happen within the context of our community. We are thrilled to be starting this newsletter for that purpose: how can we make our whole world into medicine together? Monthly, we'll be sharing insights, recipes, services updates and invitations to classes and events both online & in person. Please share the word with friends and family. We rise together and we are committed to be in service to better health for all of us.
In this issue:
- Dr Ruhoy's morning juice recipe
- Class: The Magic of Mitochondria on 11/4 from 6-8pm PST
- Meet Dr Squires, ND & Dr Ehrlich, ARNP
- New at CHN! Check your head! Self-ordered cognitive testing; online & in clinic options.
- New at CHN! Growth & recovery with Vasper to boost vascular perfusion.
- Get reaaadyy... our Podcast for Healing Neurology is coming soon!
- Research bite: Psychobiotics! The role of probiotics/microbiome on the brain & mind.
In health solidarity,
Dr Ilene Ruhoy & your team at CHN
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Dr Ruhoy's Morning Juice
Enjoy as a way to wake up your gut, which can wake up your brain. Start your day with some nourishing golden green liquid love. Click here for video instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctXWwm1ps-U
- One lemon for its anti-bacterial & digestive qualities.
- One medium cucumber for minerals, vitamins and electrolytes to help maintain water balance. Cucumbers contain pepsin which is a digestive enzyme.
- 3 inches of turmeric root to relieve arthritic pain, prevent heart disease like atherosclerosis, fight free-radical damage to the brain. Tumeric also has powerful anti-inflammatory properties.
- 1 inch of ginger root to fight inflammation, ease nausea, and heal and protect the gut.
- One medium beet for the phytochemicals which stimulate production of glutathione that aid & protect the liver and as a powerful antioxidant to improve nerve function. Beets also contain choline, a B vitamin that supports heart health and is anti-diabetic. Red beets have betacyanins which are good for liver & brain health. Gold beets have vulgaxanthin which boosts the immune system.
- One pear which is a low allergy and low sugar fruit. Pears soothe the nervous system with Vitamin C that triggers the production of norepinepinephrine & serotonin.
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Upcoming Calendar Events
 
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Dr Carly Squires, ND, LAc
Dr Squires received her Naturopathic Doctorate and Masters of Science in Acupuncture from Bastyr University. She has additional certifications in Chinese herbal medicine, homeopathy, advanced physical medicine, PRP, prolotherapy, and perineural injection therapy. Her approach encourages the body's innate healing abilities for preventative, diet and lifestyle counseling with a special focus on embodying physical health and addressing pain relief. She is skilled in both joint and neural injections as well as addressing systemic inflammation to get you back into the life you should be living.
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Gillian Ehrlich, ARNP, DNP
Family Nurse Practitioner
Dr Ehrlich is certified in Functional Medicine (www.ifm.org) and Ayurveda (the traditional medical system of India). Her specialties are gut health, autoimmune, diet and lifestyle questions and cognitive conditions like anxiety, depression and seeing the totality of the person with dementia and autism. She listens to your whole life story, starting with being born vaginally or C-section, to recite back to you an Ayurvedic Functional Medicine interpretation and approach to treatment prioritizing natural remedies with pharmaceuticals as needed. She teaches our gut and breath work classes as well as the monthly special topic CHN living room sessions (on Eventbrite!).
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Services Highlight
The Center for Healing Neurology has invested in some very unique services that you can access to expedite your healing and optimize your health. These are therapies vetted by our neurologist for their capacity to effectively improve outcomes. Ask us if they are safe & right for you.
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CNS Vital Signs is neurocognitive testing you can use to get an objective measurement of how well (or not) different domains of your brain are working. This computer test can be completed in our office or be sent as a remote link you can access from the comfort of your familiar home environment and gives a total Neurocognitive Index that we can track over time to evaluate our interventions as well target therapies to the weakest 'muscles' within your cognitive function. Cost is for the test itself + 30 minute visit with one of our practitioners to review results. You don't have to be an established patient to access this service. You don't have to live locally- both the test and the follow up can be done online through our secure portals. Click here for more info: https://www.centerforhealingneurology.com/product/cognitive-testing/
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The Vasper System combines compression, liquid cooling, and interval training to drive your body’s production of growth and recovery hormones, delivering the most significant benefits of high-intensity exercise in an efficient and low-impact 21-minute workout. Best results come with 10 sessions within 3 weeks, but this program can be modified for your needs and abilities. You don't need to be 'an exerciser' and you don't have to be an established patient to use the Vasper. Sessions are available throughout the work week for your convenience. Click here for more info: https://www.centerforhealingneurology.com/product/vasper-sessions/
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COMING SOON: The Podcast for Healing Neurology. Be sure you are on the newsletter list so you can get notified when sessions are released & hear it first! Let your friends and family know so you can discuss topics together. We'll talk about all things health, medicine and life. No topic too big or too small and, yes, we are taking requests- what do you want to know more about? Email us at podcast@centerforhealingneurology.com. Let's get curious (and probably a little messy) in exploring our world. It's what we're here to do and we're excited to do this with you.
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Psychobiotics! The role of 'microbial neurochemicals. We think of ourselves as one 'person' but we are a teeming hive of microorganisms. In fact, there are more of the 'them' then there are of 'us' as microorganisms out-number the cells in our body 10:1. Turns out, research is showing that they can impact our thinking, feeling, perceptions and desires too! We've known this for a long time with infections like rabies that make a person go 'mad' while the virus migrates to the saliva and waits hopefully for the next host to be bit and with toxoplasma, which also has some very interesting research showing impact on the amygdala (our emotional center) and centers for attraction that trigger toxo-infected rats to seek out cats against their very own will to live! What organisms are in your gut and what are they telling you to eat, do, feel or be? We can do a variety of stool testing at our neurology clinic for this very reason (https://www.gdx.net/product/gi-effects-comprehensive-stool-test), but if you just would like some mental food for now, check out these fun articles for more details:
For learning more about the fascinating toxoplasma story: story: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/
For seeing a list of research linking probiotic supplements to brain conditions from Alzheimer's & autism to depression, anxiety and mania: https://fullscript.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Probiotics-in-Neurological-Conditions-.pdf
For SUPER NERDS (oh so close to our hearts), the techie paper about this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521058/pdf/nutrients-11-00890.pdf
Enjoy!
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