Wellness Resources
The Woodlands Institute publishes Health Articles specifically designed to keep you updated with relevant wellness news. In these newsletters, you’ll find valuable information regarding supplementation, fitness tips, and recipes.
TWIHW has been serving the community since 2004. Dr Mila McManus and her highly trained team at The Woodlands Institute for Health and Wellness are winners of numerous awards, including Living Magazine Best Of Readers’ Choice awards over the years: Best Functional Medicine Practice, Best Weight Loss Center, Best Bio-identical Hormone Practice.
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Poly-MVA
Poly-MVA is emerging as an important nutritional therapeutic means of supporting immune health, mitochondria, and cellular repair. It is a patented type of palladium lipoic acid complex composed of lipoic acid, the mineral palladium, and thiamin bonded in one molecule. Poly-MVA also contains other vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. There are many methods of delivery, including…
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Genova Metabolomix + (Formerly called Genova ONE)
A Non-Invasive Health Assessment Metabolomix+ is a urinary nutritional evaluation that includes key organic acids, oxalates, and amino acids toevaluate the functional need for antioxidants, B-vitamins, minerals, digestive support, and amino acids. Genova Metabolomix sample report
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What is Synbio Milk?
Everyday a new-fangled food shows up in the grocery store. Consumer BEWARE! Synbio milk is not recognized by spell check, and you might not recognize it either. Synbio milk is synthetic. The Oxford Dictionary defines “synthetic” as made by chemical synthesis, especially to imitate a natural product. This is another example coming from the food engineering world that believes we…
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Nutrigenomics Should Matter to You
Nutrigenomics is a relatively new field that is dedicated to understanding how food impacts the expression of your genetic make-up. The good news is that you don’t have to accept some predetermined fate as a result of your genetic makeup. While it is true that your genes influence your health and longevity, they don’t determine it fully. Think of…
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Medications that Increase Blood Glucose Levels
One of the more common complaints my patients present with is weight gain, and sometimes medications are the culprit. Our goal is to identify root causes for diseases of any kind, and through lifestyle choices and natural approaches, work to correct problems rather than prescribing medications, which often cause more negative side effects. There are…
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Is Your Oral Microbiome Happy?
Who doesn’t want fresh breath and white teeth? But what if your oral hygiene and lifestyle choices are messing up the second largest collection of beneficial microbes in the body? Your mouth is home to a bustling community of over 700 species of microbes that work behind the scenes to keep your teeth, gums, tongue, tonsils, throat,…
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Grains – Good or Bad?
We often get asked whether grains should be included in a healthy diet. Understandably, many foods we have grown up eating, such as cereal, bread, and pasta are made from grains and are also favorite foods. For purposes of this article, the grain family includes most commonly wheat, corn, rice, millet, barley, amaranth, sorghum, spelt, buckwheat,…
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GAPS Diet: All Diseases Begin in the Gut
My nutritionist, Nancy Mehlert, and I just returned from Chicago as certified GAPS practitioners. GAPS stands for Gut and Psychology Syndrome and is a dietary protocol to heal whatever ails you, whether you are young or old, and whether your ailment is a skin rash, autoimmune disease, mood disorder, learning disability, autism, ADD/ADHD, allergies, migraines,…
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Foods With The Most Microplastics [and what to do instead]
Plastics have transformed modern life, but their durability comes with an unintended cost: tiny fragments known as microplastics are now turning up in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Researchers are only beginning to understand their impact on human health, but evidence suggests they are both widespread and potentially harmful.…
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