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Karen Asbury MD – Internal Medicine and Alternative Care

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The Practice of Karen Asbury, MD specializes in Integrative Medicine. This is a combination of Internal Medicine and Alternative Care, using the best of both. Our belief is to use the appropriate treatments fromboth alternative and traditional medicine to help our patients achieve their health goals and maintain optimum health.

Karen Asbury, MD will be closed Thursday November 26. Normal office hours will resume on December 1, 2015

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Karen Asbury, MD

Karen Asbury, MD

375 Municipal Drive Suite 120

Richardson, TX 75080

972 479-9139

All new patients will be emailed forms to be filled out and brought to the initial visit. Please bring old records, labs and tests with you if you can.

Initial appointments are usually 1 to 1.5 hours. Follow-up appointments may be up to 1 hour. Please call the office for scheduling.

Office Hours

Tuesday - Thursday: 11:00 - 6:00 pm.

Dr. Asbury has excellent experience and training in Integrative Medicine. She has taken extensive advanced training in functional, holistic, and conventional medicine and regularly attends conferences that are on the cutting edge of medicine.

Without the constraints of insurance, Dr. Asbury is able to spend more time with each patient individualizing their therapy program with the goal of restoring optimum health.

Everything regarding my health has improved. My energy level is where it was in my 20's. I feel like a new person... my skin is clear, I'm losing weight, I sleep well and can't wait to wake up and get moving. I'm back to being "me" and it feels fabulous. After countless doctors, tests, medications (compounding problems) I decided it was time for a change. Dr. Asbury found problems and solutions in 3 months that conventional doctors could not find in 3 years! Dr. Asbury listens to me. After all, it's my body! And I'm a person, not a number. T.O. Dallas

We are excited to now be part of an FDA study about the benefits of UV light therapy. To see if you qualify for this study, please call our office.

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Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions For Heart Health – Heart Health Information & Education – Video

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Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions For Heart Health - Heart Health Information Education
Learn about common heart conditions in this educational heart health information video. Dr. Brent Bauer, Mayo Clinic Director of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, introduces you to an...

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Hortensia Nunez – Quantum University Graduate – Doctorate and PhD in Integrative Medicine – Video

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Hortensia Nunez - Quantum University Graduate - Doctorate and PhD in Integrative Medicine
Learn more about Quantum University at http://www.iquim.org ""I #39;m going to be brief, because I know everybody wants to leave. I just want to say I #39;m here because of...

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Gail Ravello – Quantum University Graduate – Doctorate and PhD in Integrative Medicine – Video

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Gail Ravello - Quantum University Graduate - Doctorate and PhD in Integrative Medicine
Learn more about Quantum University at http://www.iquim.org ""Good afternoon, everyone. When I first started this journey, my first thought was what am I going to d...

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Lynn Ellen Lind – Quantum University Graduate – PhD in Integrative Medicine – Video

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Lynn Ellen Lind - Quantum University Graduate - PhD in Integrative Medicine
Learn more about Quantum University at http://www.iquim.org ""[xx] lot cause everybody said everything that needs to be said. Number one, thank you so much Dr. Paul...

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Regenerative Medicine with PRP and Stem Cells at San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine – Video

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Regenerative Medicine with PRP and Stem Cells at San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine
http://SDIntegrativeMedicine.com Regenerative medicine via platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and stem cells is more effective when used prior to surgery.

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What do Glycemic Index (GI) and Glycemic Load (GL) mean?

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Opposite to good carbohydrate (= "Slow Carbs”), bad carbohydrates – in neo-German also known as “Fast Carbs“ – cause the blood sugar level to rise quickly.
The faster – and thus the higher concentrated – carbohydrates are, the more insulin our body will produce in order to lower the blood sugar level.

As a consequence thereof, the blood sugar level will drop below normal, the appetite – in particular for sweets – will increase, and fat burning will be restricted during this «insulin fattening».

Therefore, GI and GL were invented, to facilitate distinction between «bad» and «good» carbohydrates.

Glycemic Index (GI)
The glycemic index – in short GI – is exclusively applied to foods containing carbohydrates. The GI does not rate foodstuffs with respect to their carbohydrate content but provides figures on their respective blood sugar level increasing effects. Read more...

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Vinpocetine shows promise for chronic inflammation

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Findings reported in article published online on May 6, 2010 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.pnas.org/) suggest that vinpocetine, a derivative of vincamine (from the periwinkle plant), could be useful for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases such as atherosclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), arthritis, infectious diseases and cancer. Vinpocetine is a dietary supplement that has been used for many years to help prevent cerebrovascular disorders and memory loss, however, the compound's potential benefit in other disorders has not been explored.Read more...

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Do Bacteria in the Brain Impact Sleep? Researchers Get a Keck Grant to Find Out – Sleep Review

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With a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation, neuroscience researchers at Washington State University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst will explore whether variations in brain levels of bacterial fragments can account for lifes circadian rhythms.

The bacteria residing inside of you outnumber your own cells 10 to one and affect sleep, cognition, mood, brain temperature, appetite and many additional brain functions. Yet we lack an understanding of how they do it, says James Krueger, PhD, Regents Professor of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine, in a release.

The sleep research is led by Krueger, and the circadian rhythm portion of the project is led by co-investigator Ilia Karatsoreos, PhD, who recently joined UMass Amherst from WSU as an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences.

At Karatsoreos Lab, researchers will use models of simulated jet lag, a way to disrupt our circadian rhythms. As anyone who has flown cross-country has likely experienced firsthand, disrupting these rhythms is associated with changes in sleep, cognition and even body temperature.

When jetlagged, many of the normal bodily functions are out of synchrony with each other. This is a consequence of altering circadian rhythms, Karatsoreos says. By looking for changes of bacterial products in the brain, we anticipate we will discover new approaches to treat jet lag, and possibly the desynchrony of physiological functions that occurs with old age.

The new grant builds on nearly 40 years of sleep research. In the early 1980s, Krueger isolated a sleep-promoting molecule from brains of sleep-deprived rabbits and from human urine. Its chemical structure was a muramyl peptidea building block component of bacterial cell walls.

At the time of the discovery, it was difficult to measure small amounts of muramyl peptides. Now, improved measurement technologies and the Keck Foundation funding will enable researchers to determine the brains muramyl peptide levels and whether they correlate with sleep-wake cycles or circadian rhythms.

Whats more, researchers will determine if sleep loss results in increased levels of muramyl peptides in the brain, a predicted result based on the 1980s investigations.

Another goal of the Keck-funded work will be to determine how brain muramyl peptides elicit sleep. Our minds are an outcome of a bacteria/human symbiosis, Krueger says. Expanding this concept by determination of how such disparate species talk to each other will transform our views of cognition, psychiatric disorders, consciousness including sleep, and our understanding of what it means to be human.

The late W. M. Keck, founder of the Superior Oil Company, established The W. M. Keck Foundation in 1954. The Foundations grant making is focused primarily on pioneering efforts in the areas of medical research, science and engineering, and undergraduate education.

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