Dr. Krause’s Blog

How you walk determines where your head sits on your body. I know that sounds like a stretch but neck pain can actually start in your feet. In Chinese Medicine, the urinary bladder channel…

Fatigue, brain fog, body aches, hair loss, dry skin, and weight gain… sounds like menopause or hypothyroidism and depending on who you follow, parasites and gut microbiome issues get thrown into the mix too.…

I just watched a funny Swedish tourism video that made me smile… They say, “Sweden is the first country in the world prescribed by doctors.” Research has shown that cold plunging, saunas, time in nature,…

When you think about your health issues or chronic symptoms, do you ever consider them in a positive light? Have you ever associated fatigue, aches, pains, brain fog, weight gain, gas, bloating, hormone imbalances,…

“It’s a time when your body won’t let you lie to it anymore” — Dr. Kristy Kiel, ND said last Friday when asked about midlife. Ugh, cringe. She has no idea how much I…

My aunt, who recently passed, used to tell me:“When you turn 80, you can say whatever you want and people will just laugh because you’re old.” At almost 90, my dad has proven this…

My husband and I have a joke: “There are no signed footballs.”It’s our way of calling each other out when one of us clearly wasn’t listening. A few years ago, my dad, who is pretty…

The first class I took in naturopathic medical school was called “Doctor, Heal Thyself.”  Through the lens of a 21-year-old Midwest gal who wasn’t all-in on the woo-woo, this class seemed… goofy. The first…

Twenty years ago I missed a stair, caught my heel on my pants, and flew down an entire flight of steps blueberry smoothie and all, straight into the wall. With a tweaked left knee…

When I was 11, I fell hard on my right hip doing an axel on the ice. I got my period not long after and the pain it caused was impossible to separate. My mom…

At 15, I sliced my leg open on a BMX pedal and ended up with 36 stitches. A month later I did it again and tried to hide it from my mom with a…

What if your low back and knee pain weren’t just structural but emotional? In Chinese Medicine, fear is the emotion of the kidneys. And kidney energy governs the lower back, knees, and lower limbs. …