Dr. John Stracks
CORMENDI CO-FOUNDER AND MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Dr. John Stracks
CORMENDI CO-FOUNDER AND MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Tips for a Healthier You: Managing Stress
We all experience stress in our lives. But it turns out that how you think about stress is more important than the stress itself. In this post, Dr. Stracks shares that embracing and learning from stress can make a huge difference in its effects on your life and gives tips for a mindset intervention to help you make that shift.
Tips for a Healthier You: Countering Negative Thoughts
In his previous post, Dr. Stracks talked about the importance of recognizing and accepting emotions and feelings as a way to improve mental health. In this post, he explains what thoughts are, compared to feelings, and how understanding how thoughts working and countering negative thoughts are essential to your mental health.
Tips for a Healthier You: Learning about Emotions
Taking care of your mental health is just as important as taking care of your physical health. Learning to recognize and understand emotions is an important component of mental health.
Tips for a Healthier You: Boost Your Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
Dr. Stracks’s top pick for improving your health in 2023? Heart rate variability. Read on to learn more about the benefits of incorporating heart-rate variability into your life and how to go about it.
Tips for a Healthier You: Practice Gratitude
Have you heard that practicing gratitude can be good for you, but wonder exactly what that looks like? Dr. Stracks outlines the health benefits (both mental and physical) of gratefulness, as well as practices for incorporating it into your daily life.
Tips for a Healthier You: Get a Full Thyroid Panel
Have you been having unexplained symptoms, or been told that your thyroid is normal, even though you don’t feel right? Getting a complete picture of your thyroid health may help you find the answers you are looking for.
Tips for a Healthier You: Turn off the News
Are you feeling stressed and can’t quite figure out why? Or are you looking to find more time in your day? Dr. Stracks recommends turning off the news as a way to lower your stress and spend time working on your goals.
Tips for a Healthier You: Eat Fewer Carbs
Is eating healthier or losing weight among your priorities for 2023? If so, read on to find out Dr. Stracks’s recommendations for some of the best ways to move forward.
FAQs about HRT and BHRT
Hormone replacement therapy can help relieve the symptoms of menopause and perimenopause. In this follow-up to his post about Relieving Menopause Symptoms, Dr. Stracks answers some of the most frequently asked questions about HRT.
Making the Body Part of the Healing Process
Have you heard about healing the nervous system and wondered whether it could be helpful for you? In this guest blog, Michelle Grim, PA, describes what healing the nervous system means and gives some steps for helping you start.
FAQs about Thyroid and Pregnancy
If you’re newly pregnant (or wanting to get pregnant) and have thyroid issues, you probably have lots of questions about how to manage your medication for optimal outcomes for you and your baby. Below, Dr. Stracks answers many of the most commonly asked questions about thyroid and pregnancy.
How to Get Unstuck in Mind-Body Healing
Feeling stuck in healing from pain and other chronic symptoms? Dr. Stracks shares insights about why you might be feeling stuck and what you can do to move forward with healing.
Is Curing People a Bad Business Model?
Are you tired of being on the medical merry-go-round, with more medications, more procedures, more treatments? At Cormendi Health, our medical model is the opposite—our goal is to help you heal and move on with your life.
Relieving Menopause Symptoms
While menopause is a natural process, the symptoms can be debilitating. And, contrary to conventional medical wisdom, there is a wide range of options to help you feel like yourself. Read on to learn more.
Mind-Body FAQ 4: Can nonpain symptoms be Mind-Body Syndrome?
Q: Can non-pain symptoms be Mind-Body Syndrome?
A: Yes, absolutely.
Mind-Body FAQ 3: How long does it take to heal?
Q: How long does it take to heal from Mind-Body Syndrome?
A: Everyone’s healing journey is different.
Mind-Body FAQ 2: How do I heal?
Q: If I do have Mind-Body Syndrome (MBS), how do I heal?
A: Getting better from MBS is a little bit different for everyone, but in very broad terms there are two main tasks to accomplish.
Mind-Body FAQ 1: What is Mind-Body Medicine?
Q: What is Mind-Body Medicine?
A: Mind-Body Medicine refers to the tendency for us as human beings to express in our bodies what doesn’t get expressed in other ways.
Mind-Body Medicine 101
Chronic pain appears not to be a sign that someone’s body is out of balance as we might generally expect. Rather, it appears to be a sign that someone’s life is out of balance.
No One Here Is Crazy
So many of our clients have been treated like they were crazy by other health professionals. Let’s talk about how no one at Cormendi Health is crazy.