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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Q: Can non-pain symptoms be Mind-Body Syndrome?

A: Yes, absolutely.

Q: How long does it take to heal from Mind-Body Syndrome?

A: Everyone’s healing journey is different.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you’re having problems with your thyroid or are not feeling well, know that you’re not alone.

Learn more about our thoughts regarding lab work–and which ones we’re most likely to recommend.

Whether you have had thyroid issues for many years or have been newly diagnosed, we’re here to help you get what you need to feel better.

Get to know Dr. Stracks and the story behind his practice and Cormendi.

Meet our practitioners and administrators.