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5 ways to Improve Sleep Naturally

5 ways to Improve Sleep Naturally

Here are 5 ways to improve sleep naturally. Learn to decrease insomnia, improve energy, and feel better every day. Remember it is important to identify the cause of why you may be having interrupted or poor sleep by speaking with a physician.

Stress Management

Recognizing stress and your response to stress is an important step to improve sleep naturally. Excess stress due to work, school, financial, or even health-related stress can increase your cortisol levels. Increased cortisol levels can negatively affect the quality and consistency of sleep. Over time this can affect blood sugar elevation and weight gain. Mind body medicine techniques, acupuncture, and massage are great ways to help deal with stress.

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Lose Weight Naturally

Lose Weight Naturally with the Rebel Med NW Program

Losing weight is a side effect of feeling healthy and having increased energy.  At Rebel Med Northwest in Ballard, our physicians take a holistic medical assessment to determine where you are with your health. We then support your goals for losing weight, maximizing your body’s ability to handle stress, improving sleep, and encouraging a functional digestive system all to facilitate natural and sustained weight-loss.  We make it as easy as possible for you to keep your body moving and feeling well with a customized weight loss plan that fits your schedule and other needs.

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Natural Anxiety Treatment
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Natural Anxiety Treatment in Seattle

Natural Anxiety Treatment in Ballard, Seattle

Naturopathic Physicians are uniquely capable of supporting patients with natural anxiety treatment methods as primary care physicians. Utilizing the same methods for assessing anxiety, providing appropriate referrals to counselors, but also integrating several areas of medicine to treat a patient holistically from the beginning.

At Rebel Med Northwest, licensed Naturopathic Physicians counsel patients about understanding their anxiety triggers. We help patients re-establish the mind body connection and create an environment for a patient to recover from periods of anxiety, or acute stressors to the nervous system. This allows the person to recover from the negative consequences that chronic or traumatic stress has on the body over time including digestive deregulation, weight gain, headaches, fatigue, and much more.

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Chiropractic Alternative

Chiropractic vs Naturopathic Manipulation

Trigger Point Injection being performed as a treatment prior to a spinal manipulation treatment

Naturopathic Physicians can mobilize the spine using naturopathic manipulations similar to chiropractic techniques.  Dr. Andrew Simon, & Dr. Kathy Severson at Rebel Med NW in Ballard provide a wide range of treatment options including, manual manipulation, therapeutic stretching, activator technique, drop table techniques, pelvic blocking, active release techniques and more.  A difference in philosophy guides naturopathic physicians who aim to resolve the root cause of the structural imbalance, and to minimize the force and frequency of spinal manipulations. A Naturopathic Physician has the unique integration of care for patients because we are able to order imaging, prescribe medications, and perform manipulations on the spine.

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Natural Hypertension Treatment

Natural Hypertension Treatment

Natural Hypertension Treatment and You: Definition, Causes, and Treatment Options

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is prevalent in about 33.5% of the adult population aged 20 and over. In 2012, 34 million patients visited their doctors with hypertension as their chief complaint. (1)

What is Hypertension?

Blood pressure is determined by two things: the amount of blood your heart pumps and the amount of resistance in your arteries. The more blood your heart pumps and the narrower the arteries, the higher the blood pressure. Hypertension can be asymptomatic, but this does not mean it is not damaging. Uncontrolled hypertension can cause serious health complications, including heart attack and stroke. (2)

What Causes Hypertension?

There are two kinds of hypertension: primary (or essential) and secondary. Secondary hypertension is caused by something outside of the cardiovascular system, such as kidney or thyroid disease, sleep apnea, or chronic alcohol use. Essential hypertension is more common, and research shows that dysregulation of the nervous system is largely responsible. Specifically, the sympathetic nervous system (your “fight or flight” response) is overactive, and the parasympathetic nervous system (your “rest and digest” response) is under active. (3)(4) So what can be done?

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Seattle Seasonal Allergies

Seattle Seasonal Allergies Want help managing your Seattle seasonal allergies? Check out Dr. Andrew Simon's recent interview with Seattle Magazine titled, "Sneezin'…

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Ballard Integrative Medical Clinic

Welcome to Rebel Med NW located in Ballard, Seattle, WA

Ballard’s Functional Medicine & Integrative Medical Clinic in Seattle

Rebel Med NW Ballard Seattle Functional MedicineWelcome to Rebel Med NW, a Ballard functional medicine & integrative medical clinic providing the surrounding communities of Crown Hill, Fremont, Greenlake, Magnolia and the Greater Seattle area with services to improve health and wellness naturally through our various modalities including: Naturopathic Medicine, Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine, Physical Medicine, Biofeedback and more!

Our award winning Seattle Top Doctors provide health modalities that hit multiple areas of performance, wellness, and overall medical care including, spinal manipulation, therapeutic and postural exercise, healthy diet & nutrition, and fostering an improved awareness of what it means to be fit and well.

Make sure to follow us for latest updates, events, and offerings on our social media channels: facebook, twitter, or instagram!

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