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🎉 You’re Invited: Open House & Free InBody Scan ($50 Value!) at Caring for the Body, PLLC
Come celebrate with us, meet a couple of team members, and enjoy a free InBody scan at our Open House in Asheville!
Join us for Shalom: A Women’s Bible Study on Faith, Wellness & Soul Care
Whether you're just beginning your health and faith journey or have been walking it for years, you are warmly invited to join us for encouragement and community.
How to Protect Your Brain Health Without Risky OTC Medications
From antihistamines to NSAIDs, some over-the-counter drugs may do more harm than good when it comes to long-term brain health. Discover safer, root-cause solutions to protect your memory, mood, and mental clarity—without risky side effects.
The Science of Brain Resilience: Staying Mentally Sharp at Any Age
Is your brain getting the care it deserves? Forget the myth that memory loss is just part of getting older. Discover how your brain can grow, adapt, and thrive at any age with science-backed strategies from Dr. Cynthia Libert. This empowering guide walks you through the 7 pillars of brain resilience—from gut health to neuroplasticity—and offers real tools to protect and optimize your mental clarity.
🌿 Exciting News! Welcoming Kamila Fiore, NP to Our Team 🌟
Today, I am excited to share some very personal and joyful news with our extended family here at Caring for the Body, PLLC – Center for Functional Medicine. This August, a dear friend and a highly respected professional in the field of functional medicine, Kamila Fiore, APRN-C, will join our team.
Gum Disease: A Silent Contributor to Chronic Inflammation and Systemic Health Issues 🌱🦷
Welcome to our discussion on a topic that profoundly affects more lives than we often recognize. As an expert in brain health and resilience, I’m committed to rethinking the aging process and helping people make long-term health transformations. Today, we delve into gum disease—not just as an oral health issue but as a pivotal factor in our systemic health and a vital piece of the puzzle in maximizing healthspan and flourishing.
Mental Barriers to Optimal Health: What’s Holding You Back?
Our beliefs have a profound impact on our lives, influencing our choices, actions, and overall well-being. When it comes to our health, our beliefs can either be empowering or limiting. Limiting beliefs can hinder our ability to make positive changes, achieve optimal health, and live our lives to the fullest.
Tips for Building Stress Resilience
Stress is a normal part of life, but it can become overwhelming when it takes over our lives. Chronic stress can have serious consequences on mental and physical health, leading to fatigue, anxiety, depression, heart disease, and other long-term conditions.
Happy New Year & 2023 Practice Update from Dr. Libert
In February 2023 we will celebrate four years of patient care at Caring for the Body, PLLC – Center for Functional Medicine. It is a profound honor and privilege to work with our patients. I love seeing people heal! It brings me great joy and fulfillment when our patients no longer suffer from chronic symptoms, improve lab values, reverse their risk factors for disease, shed diagnoses, cut back or eliminate their need for prescription drugs, lose unwanted body fat, increase energy, think clearer, move better, and experience improved vitality…
A Letter of Gratitude from Dr. Libert
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, I will take this opportunity to share how grateful I am for our patients and all who support the Caring for the Body, PLLC medical practice.
Dr. Libert’s 5 Non-Negotiable Health Habits
Over the years, I’ve passionately explored ancient health practices, modern, cutting-edge technologies and treatments, and the spiritual path to help heal myself, my family, and my patients.
10 Signs of Hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism is one of the most common diagnoses in my clinical practice. Here’s a recent patient scenario, a middle aged female with a family history of hypothyroidism, numerous symptoms of low thyroid and normal lab testing
Could it be Perimenopause?
If you raised your hand to one or more of the above symptoms, know that you are not alone and there is help!
An Invitation to Soul Care
I hope you and your loved ones are well. It has been quite a tumultuous period in human history since the pandemic was declared in March of 2020. We have all been coping and trying to make sense of the various events and unrest in our world.
Whole Body Psychiatry – A New Paradigm in Mental Healthcare
I want to introduce you to a Christ-centered, Grace-filled, Science-based approach for treating stress, anxiety, and depression and improving your brain health.
Introducing the Joy Prescription!
Today is a big day for me! ??Many of you may not know that I have struggled with anxiety and depressive symptoms that started during my medical school and residency training days. The stress, long hours and sleep deprivation were definitely an occupational hazard! Thankfully, I’ve been on an incredible healing journey over the last 15+ years.
Feeling Anxious and Overwhelmed?
If you’re struggling with anxiety or feeling overwhelmed right now, please know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Today we are facing uncertainty and challenges in the world unlike we’ve ever seen. Everyone is grappling with their own unique set of circumstances and concerns with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Welcome to Caring for the Body — Meet Cynthia Libert, M.D.
If you’ve ever been to the doctor struggling with fatigue, pain, headaches, bloating or some other vague, but bothersome symptoms only to be told that all your blood work looks “fine” and then sent on your way, then I think that you’ll resonate with what I have to say today.
Update from Dr. Libert + Pomegranate Yogurt Bark Holiday Recipe
Dr. Cynthia Libert reflects on a transformative 2019, celebrating milestones in her functional medicine practice and unveiling exciting new offerings for 2020 focused on brain health, hormone balance, and personalized, integrative care.
My Journey as a Physician & Mother
Today I am taking what feels like a big risk to tell you my story. It’s scary to be vulnerable and transparent when society programs us to wear the “I have it all together. My life is perfect” mask. However, I’ve learned that when we are courageous enough to take off our masks, and show the world who we really are, we can begin to truly connect with others and live an authentic, meaningful life.
3 Principles for a Happy, Healthy Brain
If you have not already done so, I invite you to read my previous post entitled “10 reversible causes of anxiety and depression.” You may be struggling to find the right treatments for your mood, but I urge you not to give up!
7 Tips for Minimizing Stress Over the Holidays
When I was a young, working mother with one infant, a wise woman gave me this piece of advice regarding my holiday celebrations: “Pick one thing and do it well every year.” Keeping in touch with friends and family is important to me, and I really enjoy being creative, so I chose to make a tradition of sending a family photo Christmas card each year.
10 Reversible Causes of Anxiety & Depression
As a physician, I was trained to diagnose diseases. Granted, there is some sense of relief for the patient and satisfaction for the doctor to put a label on your condition, but it’s not as helpful as it may seem. In fact, labeling people with specific mental diseases has led to the problematic practice of lumping large groups of patients with similar symptoms into categories and simply prescribing a corresponding prescription drug to the name of the disorder.
What does your body need to heal?
Your body is talking to you. Pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, brain fog, headaches, insomnia, heartburn, indigestion, bloating, constipation, diarrhea and stubborn belly fat are not the enemies.