Dr Jacqueline Chan,  Integrative Holistic Physician

Chronic illness is no longer a mysterious anomaly it is increasingly the norm. Yet mounting research shows that we may be looking in the wrong direction when seeking its root cause. Nutritional deficiencies and sedentary lifestyles have long been ...

Best Practices to Empower Your Health During COVID-19
The First of a Four Part Series

 What do the numbers show us?

When we think of COVID-19, we immediately think of tracking the numbers. My favorite place to track the numbers is here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ 

At first glanc...

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Although we associate our thanksgiving as a feast with our families, it is a good reminder of the health benefits of gratitude. Giving gratitude can actually shape our brains to bring us an experience of more joy in our lives. Shawn Achor, a Harvard graduate,...

The Big Five Toxic Heavy Metals

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry lists arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury and aluminum among the top five of the 275 most hazardous substances in the environment.

Why do you want to know and what do you want to do about it? Many people are being sil...

If you’re like me, I’ve been relieved to have longer evenings since we moved our clocks forward and joyous to see the trees blooming all over. Spring is one of my favorite times of the year and it’s also a great time to CLEANSE. As I mentioned in my last newsletter, sign up for the Spring Detox to C...

Imagine this…I’m walking into a TEDx Salon in Marin on the Future of Food this fall. At the crossroads of food culture, innovation and technology this evening was to explore how we reshape our promise with food, how our environment will force changes on our future diets, as well as vertical farming ...

It’s that time of year again when many of us have spent Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays recovering from “the cold” or “the flu”. Fortunately, I wasn’t one of them. I heeded the call of the season, didn’t travel too much, kept socializing to the minimum, and went way up on my Vit. D and felt well ...

Bio-identical hormone balancing, also referred to as Natural Hormone Balancing, goes far beyond the treatment of hot flashes. This form of therapy provides women in their 40’s and up with health support for their brain, heart and bone health. This form of therapy is also available to men for treatme...

Did you know that unrefined salt not only flavors your food, but can also help your breasts remain healthy? Optimizing our iodine levels helps our thyroid function well and assists in detoxification of chemicals and breast cancer prevention. This article discusses how getting the right amount of iod...

In my last blog I discussed the Gut/Brain Axis. Once you have healed your gut lining it is safe to assess your body for heavy metals and get them out of your system. It can be dangerous to your health to chelate out heavy metals if your gut lining is leaky, because then the heavy metals simply recir...

Do you have trouble finding your car keys? Remembering the names of new acquaintances or something you just learned? Do you have digestive difficulties? Unfortunately, Americans are as a nation getting weaker in their heads. Alzheimer’s is now the 6th leading cause of death, whereas it didn’t even m...

In January most of us are motivated to set goals that are important for the year ahead. I am happy to say there is A LOT we can do to support your health goals. If your health is compromised in any way, other facets of your life suffer: your relationships, your work, and your sense of enjoyment.

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We are on Lockdown till April 7th.

By Dr. Jacqueline S. Chan, D.O.

Formally known as SARS-COV-2 which creates the disease named COVID-19 is stopping the world. As of Monday afternoon, 03/16 the Bay Area is in complete lockdown for non-essential activities as of midnight tonight until April 7th.

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This is the first time in the history of the world that we are coming together making individual sacrifices in order to solve a collective issue. There is power in togetherness. Who knows where this is leading us? In what seems like under one week our lives have dramatically changed. For some, it’s ...

Rest and connect. Take a media break. Play music, take a bath, and sing in the tub. This is my favorite song to sing to right before bedtime: Jennifer Berizan “In These Arms, A Song for All Beings”.

Read a good novel, doodle or draw/paint, or maybe create a “crafts night” or “games night” with your...

At these unprecedented times, we are being asked to do unprecedented things. We have been hearing a lot about big decisions being made that were never made before, such as: not coding those whose hearts go silent in the hospital if they have COVID-19 because the effects are futile and it’s better to...