AHP Integrative Health

AHP Integrative Health AHP Integrative Health is an integrative medicine practice in Wooster, OH.

08/30/2026

Needles can feel scary and even be a barrier to getting helpful information. There are alternatives for good tests. Some of the alternatives are even better than what you can get with a needle.

08/27/2026

I use what I call the expanded Isabel Analysis for dealing with anxiety provoking situations.

Give it a try and let me know how it goes. Or tell me what you do to work with your anxiety when it flares up.

Ever had a procedure go sideways for no reason you could explain? That's what our family has been navigating with vascul...
08/25/2026

Ever had a procedure go sideways for no reason you could explain? That's what our family has been navigating with vascular access for plasmapheresis these last few months.

My own experience was smooth. My son Gideon's and my husband Eric's? Not so much. Veins that looked perfect but wouldn't cooperate, lines that stopped holding mid-procedure, more than one appointment we had to pause and rework.

This week's carousel walks through what we've learned: what a midline catheter actually is, why the width of the tube matters more than you'd think, and how to support someone you love when they're anxious and can't problem-solve in the moment. (Hint: they don't need more options. They need calm and a clear plan.)

We also get into something a lot of people don't realize: autoimmune encephalitis isn't just a kids' diagnosis. Eric was 53 when his symptoms started.

Swipe through for the highlights, then go listen to the full episode of Made to Be Whole. And if you're ready to stop guessing and get real answers for your own body, Foundations of Health at AHP Integrative Health is a great place to start.

One of the challenges we all face (be certain, I am right there with you on this one) is learning to understand cost bey...
08/21/2026

One of the challenges we all face (be certain, I am right there with you on this one) is learning to understand cost beyond a price tag. The cost of being sick for another year is hard to put a financial number to. And yet, it has one for sure.

I am such a champion of the tests we do because they help guide us to the best ways to channel our time and our money to best effect. They are THE answer. They will help find better solutions.

For my over 40s (and 50s) folks, do you ever wonder why so many more people seem to be sick than when we were kids?I hea...
08/19/2026

For my over 40s (and 50s) folks, do you ever wonder why so many more people seem to be sick than when we were kids?

I hear a version of this all the time: we're not really seeing more chronic disease, we're just better at diagnosing it. And there is certainly some truth to that, as well as it being an appealing answer. But it doesn't feel like the whole story. I still remember the name of the girl in my elementary school who had an inhaler- they were so rare. Childhood allergies, thyroid disease, diabetes; these were genuinely rare, not hidden away somewhere. Something has shifted, and better paperwork doesn't explain all of it..

Ep 99 of Made to Be Whole, I get into where epigenetics might fit into that story. Your genes are fixed. You're born with them, and they don't change. But whether a gene ever expresses itself, whether it becomes a real problem, depends on a lot of other things, and so much of that is your environment. A gene that cost your great-grandparents nothing can be a problem now. There's a gene that makes some people far more sensitive to EMFs, the everyday hum of Wi-Fi, phones, and cell towers, that simply wasn't an issue a century ago, because none of that existed. There's a common variant that can cut a person's ability to clear benzene by more than 90%, at a time when our tight, well-insulated homes are full of it.

While this can feel overwhelming or even scary, I'll tell you why I find all of this hopeful rather than frightening. If your environment is part of the story, then you have some say in the story. When there's a scary illness in your family, you don't have to just hope and pray you dodge it. You can ask what made them vulnerable, and what you might do differently. Good genomic testing won't hand you certainty, but it will show you where to start: which pathways run weak for you, which exposures are worth taking seriously, where to put limited time and money.

My own thinking on this has changed over the years. I used to see this kind of testing as an important luxury. Now I see it as one of the most practical, cost-saving things a person can do for their health, and their family's. We tell new parents all the time that children don't come with a manual. This is about as close to one as we've got.

If any of this resonates, the new episode is a good place to start — and so is Foundations of Health at AHP Integrative Health. Your health is worth investing in. I believe that more every year.

08/18/2026

Have you ever tried to reason someone out of a feeling and watched it do absolutely nothing?

In this clip I asked my husband Eric something I've wanted to understand for a long time. When he's in the middle of a flare, when the anxiety and dread have nothing to do with whatever is actually happening around him, what actually helps?

His answer was refreshingly honest. When I ask what I can do, he'll tell me straight that if he knew, he'd have said so already. But over time he's figured out that most of what you'd instinctively reach for is the wrong tool. Not "come on, you don't really mean that." Not explaining his worries away, because they aren't coming from reason in the first place, so reason has nothing to grab onto. What helps, he said, is space. Don't react or take it personally. Just listen.

And for himself, it's often something small and unglamorous. A little escapism, maybe a show, a podcast, anything that takes his mind off the pain while the treatment he's taking has time to work. Sometimes it's simply stepping into another room so a hard moment doesn't spill onto the people he loves.

I wanted to share this because so many of us are loving someone through something we can't fix, and we keep handing them logic when what they actually need is our presence. If that's you right now, I hope this gives you a little permission to stop fixing and start listening.

This one is from our 100th episode of Made to Be Whole. Tune in for the whole episode wherever you pod.

08/13/2026

Has anyone ever told you that you were the problem, when you were just trying to get answers for your child?

This clip from Episode 91 of Made to Be Whole hits close to home for a lot of parents in this community. Krista talks about a mother whose child was showing serious psychiatric symptoms: OCD, anxiety, self-harm. She kept pushing for answers. The response from the medical system? A suggestion that she might be causing the illness herself. Munchausen by proxy.

It turned out the child had a genetic variant affecting blood flow to the brain. That's a physical finding and a root cause. Something that could actually be addressed, once someone finally looked for it.

If you've been dismissed, doubted, or made to feel like your advocacy was the issue, please know you are not alone and you are not wrong for pushing. This episode is a reminder of why whole-person, root-cause medicine matters. And why the divide between mental and physical health is costing real families real answers.

Episode link in bio, and if you want support from a practice that starts with the full picture, visit ahpintegrativehealth.com.

It's been 100 episodes, and I wanted to do something a little different, so I asked Eric, my husband and one of my favor...
08/12/2026

It's been 100 episodes, and I wanted to do something a little different, so I asked Eric, my husband and one of my favorite people in the world, to join me.

We talked about all the things he's heard me say a hundred times over the years. That the body works as a whole, not as a set of parts to be divided up between specialists. That what looks like weakness is so often just chemistry. That most of this comes down to staying flexible, with your health, your family, your marriage. He has lived every bit of it right alongside me, through his own autoimmune condition and everything it has asked of us.

And near the end he told me the one thing he's 100% sure of, and it turned out to be the same thing I've come to believe too. I think you'll know exactly what he means.

Episode 100 is up now. Thank you for being here for all hundred of them. It means more than you know.

And remember, you were made to be whole. (He's heard that WAY more than one hundred times.)

Have you ever wished you had a friend group that just made healthy choices easier? Good instincts. It turns out it matt...
08/07/2026

Have you ever wished you had a friend group that just made healthy choices easier? Good instincts. It turns out it matters more than we tend to give it credit for.

Who you spend your time with shapes what feels normal, what feels doable, what you reach for without even thinking about it. So instead of just hoping for better relationships or better support, it can help to ask yourself who you're actually spending time around and whether those relationships are pulling you toward the habits you want or away from them.

You don't need a whole new circle overnight. Just start noticing, and start leaning toward the people and routines that support the direction you're trying to go.

We talk about this kind of thing a lot on the Made to Be Whole podcast, connection, community, and how they tie into real healing.

And if you're looking for your own grounded starting point for better health, Foundations of Health at ahpintegrativehealth.com is a great place to look.

Ever wonder why brain fog, anxiety, or neurological symptoms feel so much harder to treat than other health issues? Ther...
08/05/2026

Ever wonder why brain fog, anxiety, or neurological symptoms feel so much harder to treat than other health issues? There's a real, physical reason for that.

The blood vessels in your brain are built differently than the ones everywhere else in your body: tighter, more selective, designed to keep the bad stuff out. That protection is a good thing, until you need to get treatment in. This episode of Made to Be Whole, we're talking about the blood-brain barrier: what it is, why some medications and supplements cross it and others don't, and what you can start doing now to protect it, whether or not you're dealing with symptoms yet.

We cover intranasal delivery, liposomal formulations, which antibiotics actually reach the central nervous system, and the everyday nutrients, vitamin D, omegas, a good B-complex, that support this organ long before anything goes wrong.

Sometimes we can regain function. It's so much easier to prevent needing to.

Listen to the full episode and let us know what surprised you most. Remember, you were made to be whole.

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