Medicine for people seeking holistic alternatives

What conditions do you treat?

Dr. Sharp specializes in treating adults and children with chronic conditions that don't respond well to conventional drug-based therapies.   Examples include:

• Chronic pain conditions such as arthritis, headaches, migraines, muscle, joint and abdominal pains

• Hormonal imbalances (using techniques that include bioidentical hormone replacement therapies)

• Mood, attention, sleep, and autonomic nervous system regulation issues

• Digestive conditions such as chronic diarrhea, constipation, IBS, IBD, GERD

• Chronic mood or cognition problems such as sadness, insomnia, difficulty concentrating, obsessive thinking

• Fibromyalgia and Chronic fatigue syndromes

• Other conditions where the patient is not able or willing to tolerate medication

What kind of medicine do you practice?

I see the body as an ecosystem influenced especially by nutrition, behaviors, stress, and environmental factors.  When the system - your body - is in balance with good nutrition, healthy behaviors, and coping mechanisms for stress and toxins, you stay healthy. Disturbances in this ecology can interact with your genetic makeup in ways that produce illness.

I work with patients to identify and correct the specific factors in each individual that lead to complex illness.  In my experience most people can have a marked improvement in their health, not just treatment of their symptoms, by understanding the complexity of their illness and correcting the core imbalances.

Is there a name for this approach?

The Institute of Functional Medicine is the premier professional association researching and teaching this approach to human illness.  There are other scientists and clinicians working under the sciences of Nutrigenomics or Metabolomics.  Holistic medicine uses the same basic overarching concepts and understandings.

Call to make an appointment

To make an appointment with Dr. Sharp, please call (919) 945-0300.

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