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Ram Gupta joins VHI providing hypnotherapy services to our patients

Ram Gupta is a certified Hypnotherapist and EFT professional from Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy and has trained with Dorothy Tyo, the founder of the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy and probably the best Hypnotherapist in the Silicon Valley. Hypnotherapy is a very misunderstood term with many misconceptions.  This is really referring to a deep [...]

Dr. Nancy Lowe joins VHI providing Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and acupuncture

Dr. Nancy Lowe began her career in holistic health over 30 years ago with an interest in natural foods and nutrition. She became a certified massage therapist, and soon afterward was enrolled at Five Branches University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She received her acupuncture license in 1987 and is now is a professor at Five [...]

Is my pelvic pain due to endometriosis?

While endometriosis is a leading cause of pelvic pain, pelvic pain is often multifactorial in origin – it can stem from multiple causes.
Many women with endometriosis who suffer from pelvic pain will also have co-existing urogynecological disorders that contribute to their symptoms. Sometimes one disorder may mask other co-occurring disorders and it takes a skilled [...]

Avoiding the Cold and Flu

Avoiding the Cold and Flu
Cold and flu season is upon us.  In addition to being inside more, we also tend to be under more stress with the New Year upon us.  This is the perfect recipe for catching a cold or flu!  A mounting amount of evidence has shown that stress lowers our immune system.  [...]

The Importance of Lightening Your “Toxic Load” for Endometriosis

By Danielle Cook
Functional Medicine Practitioner at Vital Health Institute
Studies have linked endometriosis to poor detoxification.  This may be partly due to genetic defects in detoxification pathways such as MTHFR, COMT, SOD1, SOD2, GSTM1, and various CVT genes.  If there is a mutation in any of these genes, detoxification suffers, toxins build up in the system, [...]

What does aromatase have to do with my endometriosis?

Aromatase is an enzyme that is responsible the production of estrogen. Although estrogen is important for our health, too much estrogen, and poor elimination of old estrogen, can lead to high levels of estrogen. There is strong evidence that estrogen stimulates the growth of endo, and studies have shown that aromatase inhibitors can
help to reduce [...]

Unhealthy Gut, Unhealthy Body

Hello! I am so happy to be joining the VHI family. What a wonderful place to be. I am excited about sharing my passion for health and wellness. To begin, I have written a brief description of the importance of a healthy gut and how it’s connected to your overall health. Read on below if [...]

What the Statistics are Revealing about Dr. Cook’s Endometriosis Surgery (The EVE Procedure)

We have had so many exciting things happening at Vital Health Institute over the last year. One huge project has been the entering in all of the post-operative outcome data we have been collecting over the last 10 years.

The Endometriosis – Ovarian Cancer Connection (Part 5)

As you can see below there are many different types of ovarian tumors and cancers. We will use this offical classification system to show which of these are associated with endometriosis.
World Health Organization Histological Classification of Ovarian Tumors1,2 (1999):

I. Surface epithelial-stromal tumors
1. Serous tumors
(1) Benign
1. Cystadenoma and papillary cystadenoma
2. Surface papilloma
3. Adenofibroma and cystadenofibroma
(2) Of [...]

The Endometriosis – Ovarian Cancer Connection (Part 4)

Below I will summarize and list the basic type of benign and malignant ovarian tumors in this blog. Tumors can be solid or cystic and they are also classified as benign (not cancer) and malignant (cancer)