Our wellness center medical director, Dr. Michael Sharp, is a Harvard trained physician who served on the faculty of the UNC School of Medicine for 20 years before a growing dissatisfaction with the practice of mainstream medicine and his brush with serious illness led him to look outside the box. Over the last 20 years, he has steadily acquired a better understanding and approach to chronic illnesses of all types.
Effective approaches to healing must be broad, holistic, and based upon the knowledge that mind and body are one. Understanding and treating chronic illness requires uncovering and addressing roots of illness unique to each patient. A respectful, compassionate relationship with each client is of crucial importance to their healing process.
Effective approaches to healing must be broad, holistic, and based upon the knowledge that mind and body are one. Understanding and treating chronic illness requires uncovering and addressing roots of illness unique to each patient. A respectful, compassionate relationship with each client is of crucial importance to their healing process.
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The current Plum Spring Clinic is the result of a long metamorphosis of intertwined professional and personal development. In 1998, our Medical Director, Dr. Michael Sharp, was a faculty member of the UNC School of Medicine beginning to question the efficacy of the medicine he was trained in, and with a personal diagnosis of cancer.
Stress and Mood Disorders
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Feel like stress is killing you? Well if it's your chronic state, it is no doubt contributing to the breakdown of healthy physiological processes, with harsh unwanted consequences. We experience stress as mental or emotional strain resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. It's true that for the majority of us, modern life is full of adverse or very demanding circumstances.
Autoimmune Illness
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One of the most baffling categories of all disease is caused by the body's own immune defense systems acting against itself. There are hundreds of illnesses that we now know are caused by the body's own immune system attempting to fight the body's own tissues. Approximately 50 million Americans, 20 percent of the population or one in five people, suffer from autoimmune diseases, with women being disproportionately affected.
Autoimmune Illness Overview
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To understand an autoimmune illness, one must understand the function and processes of the immune system itself. Innate Immune System: You are born with this immune system and its main form of defense is the utilization of phagocytes. When something the system identifies as a threat is detected, these phagocytes are immediately deployed.
Joint Pain Recovery
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Painful joints can be extremely destructive to our overall health. The pain can come in many different forms. Some individuals may experience intense sharp pain from a particular joint while others experience dull aches in many or all their joints at once.
Whether experienced as dull aches with stiffness, burning, or even shards of glass in a joint, any type of chronic pain places us under a high level of stress and causes a significant decrease in our quality of life.When our joints hurt, a vicious cycle can emerge where the pain causes decreased activity which then causes more joint pain and stiffness.
Whether experienced as dull aches with stiffness, burning, or even shards of glass in a joint, any type of chronic pain places us under a high level of stress and causes a significant decrease in our quality of life.When our joints hurt, a vicious cycle can emerge where the pain causes decreased activity which then causes more joint pain and stiffness.
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