Medical advice from Dr. Cynthia Li
This blog is a supplement to a 40-minute interactive lecture I gave to nearly 3,000 live participants, sponsored by Sutter Health / Institute for Health and Healing on October 6, [...]
This is the second in a series of articles: Enduring Wisdom in Times of Great Change. In the spring of 2013, during my decade+ journey with chronic fatigue and vertigo, [...]
Yesterday at my standard go-to grocery store in Berkeley, CA, the shelves that stock paper goods and bottled water were spare. The canned beans, soups, and pasta shelves: empty. I’ve [...]
Over the past several years of practicing integrative and functional medicine, I’ve observed two “ingredients” that consistently increase the likelihood of healing in my patients; in some cases, this meant [...]
I used to be a total skeptic when it came to intuition. Having grown up in Texas in an evangelical community, then going through western medicine training, I would say that my [...]
Published in the Peninsula Press, BY CHRISTINA REN AUGUST 26, 2017 Ten years ago, a young woman came to Dr. Cynthia Li, seeking treatment for fungal overgrowth causing chronic fatigue and digestive [...]
Got brain fog? Mood imbalances? Adult acne? Chronic fatigue? I did. I also had chronic dizziness, insomnia, hypersensitivity to sounds, and other symptoms often dismissed. In the eleven years since [...]
Building resilience and maintaining good health can sometimes be an uphill struggle in urban living. There are some important and simple steps that can be incorporated into daily life. Certain [...]
Paleo diets have many versions and connotations, and they can also be quite dogmatic in certain circles. A more appropriate term to describe my personal/professional approach to food is "ancestral" [...]
When we think of infections or toxins or pollutants, we typically think of protecting ourselves. A rigid shield to protect us from the outside. While there's nothing wrong with this, [...]
