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If you missed my initial post, I jumped on the TikTok trend a few weeks ago and made a video about the 5 things I would never do as an allergist/immunologist and then turned it into a blog that was featured on KevinMD.com and his podcast last week! If you missed it, you can check it out here. 

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In my last blog, I shared the 5 things I would never do as an immune system expert with an autoimmune disease.

If you missed it, check out this post here.

In that blog, I promised to dig into each of these topics a bit more and share some practical and science-supported strategies!

Let’s start wit...

I jumped on the TikTok trend a few weeks ago and made a video about the 5 things I would never do as an allergist/immunologist and then turned it into a blog that was featured on KevinMD.com! If you missed it, you can check it out here. 

I thought I would repeat this exercise from the role of a Sjo...

One thing I get asked about A LOT from patients and my medical trainees (med students, residents, and fellows) is about the role of testing in the role of diagnosing allergies, autoimmunity, and other invisible illnesses. 

Testing can take several different forms from blood work to imaging studies ...

Jumping on the recent TikTok trend of medical professionals sharing the things they would never do given their knowledge and expertise, I am sharing the five things I would never do as a board-certified allergist-immunologist.

1. I would never rely on a Primatene mist inhaler to treat my asthma ...

In case you missed the last blog, this is the second blog in a series digging into my take on some of the functional medicine-type approaches. Click here to read it. 

In the first blog, I laid out my biases and disclosures.

Why is this important?

Because we are all human. Humans are biased.

W...

I had someone reach out asking for my thoughts and recommendations on a proposed treatment course by their functional medicine doc.  It is not uncommon that this happens in my clinical practice too. Perhaps, it's a bit of their inner knowing, that gut feeling, telling them to get a second (or third)...

I am happy to announce that I recently started my own YouTube Channel.

Why?

I want to be able to share my views, insights, and knowledge not only on the blog and podcast but also in video format!

The reality is that some topics are more suitable to video and I also needed to post a few videos to ...