Integrative Psychiatry & Longevity Blog in St. Louis, MO & Washington DC 

Lately, more and more people are turning to melatonin to help them fall asleep. You can find it on every pharmacy shelf, marketed as the natural solution for restless nights. And while melatonin does have a role to play in regulating sleep, the idea that it’s a shortcut or substitute for good sleep habits is where many people go wrong. As an integrative psychiatric nurse practitioner , I work with patients every day who struggle with sleep. And the truth is, good sleep doesn

In the world of psychiatry today, we hear a lot about starting medications. Less often do we hear about stopping them. We live in a...

One of the things I see nearly daily now, whether I’m working with patients or families in St. Louis, D.C., Colorado, or beyond, is that...

Let’s get something straight: if your body is a dumpster fire, your brain isn’t miraculously thriving in the middle of it. That’s not how...

Most primary care doctors don’t actually optimize your health—they just check for disease. If you’re not actively dying, they’ll call...

Most people think of mental health as a brain issue. You feel anxious? It must be your GABA, and we reach for Xanax. You’re struggling...

Metabolic psychiatry is changing the way we think about mental health. For too long, psychiatry has been stuck in a chemical imbalance...