Dr. Rollins Articles
Regenerative Injections
We specialize in a variety of injections that assist the body in healing injuries or regenerating tissue. Arthritis can be reversed in some cases...
Staying in balance & avoiding burnout
Burnout is a special kind of stress, best defined as being exhausted and just losing interest in what you do. The physical and mental effects may...
Calm but not Fatigued
We all want to be in the mental “zone” — you know, between having plenty of energy yet feeling calm and relaxed. For so many of my patients this...
Go Organic with the Dirty Dozen
The “USDA Organic” label is familiar to most shoppers, yet there is confusion about the definition of organic. And while many people purchase...
Keys to Great Health
"Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick." —Hippocrates Health, like so many things, does not rely...
Not Milk?
We had whole milk delivered to the house in glass bottles when I was a kid. My dad spent many years as a veterinarian specializing in work for one...
Avoid These Common Food Additives
A “food additive” is any substance added to food in order to improve the safety, freshness, taste, texture, appearance, or nutritional value....
Covid19 Management, The FLCCC Protocols
The following Covid19 management protocols were developed by Paul Marik, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine...
Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain
With the holidays upon us many of you may find the New Year brings with it the dread of gaining weight. Yet it can be confusing just what to eat to...
Improve Health with a “Myer’s” Cocktail
Infusing various vitamins or anti-oxidants directly into the bloodstream will achieve blood levels as much as ten times higher than possible with...
Are Food Allergies Making You Gain Weight?
If you struggle with losing weight despite eating well and exercising then consider investigating for delayed food allergies. Along with hormone...
The Connection Between Gut Health & the Mind
“What does your gut tell you?” Hmmm … “I’ve got a gut feeling” this is going to be a great column. Do you get “butterflies in your stomach” when you...
Avoid These Common Food Additives
A “food additive” is any substance added to food in order to improve the safety, freshness, taste, texture, appearance, or nutritional value. Throughout human history we’ve augmented foods, adding salt to cure meats, sugar to preserve fruits, and vinegar to pickle a...
Covid19 Management, The FLCCC Protocols
The following Covid19 management protocols were developed by Paul Marik, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, and others, as members of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). ...
Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain
With the holidays upon us many of you may find the New Year brings with it the dread of gaining weight. Yet it can be confusing just what to eat to avoid the seemingly inevitable holiday bulge. The headlines are full of tips on “this diet” or “that diet”. The...
Improve Health with a “Myer’s” Cocktail
Infusing various vitamins or anti-oxidants directly into the bloodstream will achieve blood levels as much as ten times higher than possible with oral vitamin intake. This make intravenous (IV) infusions effective in treating a wide range of medical issues, from...
Are Food Allergies Making You Gain Weight?
If you struggle with losing weight despite eating well and exercising then consider investigating for delayed food allergies. Along with hormone imbalance and poor intestinal health we find the connection between food allergies and weight gain to be quite common. ...
The Connection Between Gut Health & the Mind
“What does your gut tell you?” Hmmm … “I’ve got a gut feeling” this is going to be a great column. Do you get “butterflies in your stomach” when you are nervous or upset? Then you’d better “go with your gut” and read on! These colloquialisms are truer than simple...
Sports Nutrition Part 3: Making Nutrition Work for Your Workout
Get more from your workout by adding the right nutrients at the right time. In part 1 and 2 of this series I reviewed which hormones increase muscle strength, speed and power, how muscles develop, and which nutrients are necessary for this process. Now let’s tie it...
Sports Nutrition Part 2: Macronutrients & Micronutrients
Getting the right nutrition, at the right time, will enhance your workout leading to increases in muscle strength, speed, power and endurance. But just what is the “right nutrition” to maximize exercise benefits? It needs to supply energy for exercise and provide...
Migraine Treatment
Neck exercises that may help migraine headaches
Sports Nutrition Part 1: Muscle Function and Hormones
Would you like to get more out of your workout? How about increasing muscle strength, power and speed? Exercise is the key but nutrition plays a critical role in making the exercise pay off. This three part column will show you how to maximize your hormonal systems...
Get Super Fit
Wellness is quite more than the absence of disease. Similarly, to be “well” does not automatically mean one is fit. Rather, there is a spectrum that improves from sickness, to wellness, to fitness. Fitness can be thought of as “super-wellness.” Fitness keeps us at the...
Making Hunger Hormones Work for Weight Loss
Control your appetite and control your weight. By understanding some of the hormones involved in hunger control we can more effectively lose or maintain ideal weight. With names such as leptin and ghrelin, our hunger hormones sound more like Elven characters from J....
Live longer with laughter
How delightful to learn that laughter really is the best medicine and will perhaps add as many good years to your life as other familiar health tips. Could it be so simple that a positive attitude reduces heart disease and stress-related hormones, improves the immune...
Cleanse and Detox
If you want to do something to improve your overall health then consider a simple cleanse and detox program. Each of us has a continual onslaught of toxic chemicals that build up in the body and especially wreak havoc with our DNA, immune, endocrine and neurologic...
Cardiac CT Scan Tracks Your Plaque
Atherosclerosis, once detected, does not have to lead to heart problems or an early death. There are tests and treatments that lead to an effective strategy to stop the process.
Staying Cool In Summer
Summertime in Western Colorado offers some of the best outside adventure in the world, whether it is cycling across desert slick rock or rafting raging rivers, hiking remote trails or golfing groomed links, we are blessed with an abundance of terrain that lures folks...
Breathe Away Stress
Stress can be effectively dispersed by deep breathing. It's not that the stress can be avoided or magically disappear, it's that one can mitigate the impact of stress on the body. Relaxed breathing, alone, or with meditation or yoga, etc, stimulates the...
Weight Loss Medications
Many prescription medications may assist with weight loss efforts. Rather than simply guessing, we match the mediation that best suits your needs. This may be related to how you feel, for example, if you are constantly hungry, suffer from cravings, or struggle with...
Return to sports after concussion
6-Step Return to Play Progression It is important for an athlete’s parent(s) and coach(es) to watch for concussion symptoms after each day’s return to play progression activity. An athlete should only move to the next step if they do not have any new symptoms at the...
Cancer Protocol
Every patient and every cancer is different, yet there are some common therapies that we have found helpful. Our cancer protocol is simply meant to be a starting point for most patients. Cancer Development and Treatment Goals Read our article on Cancer Development...
Hormones That Take Off the Pounds – Weight Loss
The frustration of not losing weight despite eating right and exercising is usually related to hormone imbalances. Last week I wrote about hormones that cause weight gain. Now let’s consider several hormones that take off the pounds! With weight loss, some of them...
Hormones that Pack on the Pounds
In the struggle to maintain a healthy weight many of us find there seems to be some hidden roadblock to our progress. Despite eating well and exercising regularly, sometimes weight loss seems impossible. Rest assured there are often underlying hormone issues that...
Improve your health with plenty of fiber
What foodstuff can help you lose weight, lower your risk of heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disease and cancer while generally improving your how you feel? Good old fiber. You’ve probably been told to “get plenty of fiber” in your diet, but exactly how much and...
Vitality for the Aging Man
Men, if you feel like you are losing your mojo then maybe it time to check your testosterone level. Aging men will have a predictable decline in the male sex hormone, testosterone, leading to decreased energy and fatigue, weight gain, loss of muscle mass, and loss of...
Palliative Pearls
My summary notes from the wonderful book, "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande. ADLs Eat, toilet, bathe, groom, dress, get out of bed, get out of chair, walk IADLs Shop, prepare food, housekeep, do laundry, make phone calls, handle meds, handle finances, travel THREE...
Eating Freely
The Root Cause Oftentimes when working with patients, we uncover that difficulty with weight loss is rooted in stress eating, emotional eating and/or binge eating. This recognizable pattern typically goes from dieting to “falling off the wagon” to feeling guilty to...
Dendritic Cell Therapy for Cancer
The goal of dendritic cell therapy is to prime dendritic cells to teach T cells and B cells how to recognize the cancer antigens.
Vitality for the Aging Woman – Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy.
The goal of anti-aging is to slow, stop, or even reverse many of the changes associated with aging. This means staying healthy, active, and vibrant of body and mind, while avoiding the common diseases and infirmities of aging. One cornerstone of anti-aging strategy...
Diagnose and Treat Hypothyroidism in 2021: New Endocrinology
Dr Alan McDaniel "hit a home run" with this excellent review of thyroid hormone physiology, diagnosis and treatment. After more than 20 years of specializing in thyroid treatment, having read dozens of books on thyroid and attended numerous lectures on thyroid, I...
Joint Injection Protocols
WJ-Pure+ 1mL $1500 EV-Pure+ 1mL/15 billion cells $2500, 4.5mL/85 billions cells $4000 PRP 1 vial $250
Consent and Contract for Controlled Substances
Please read this form entirely. It contains information to assist you in making a decision to have a specific therapy. Initial each paragraph if you understand it. If you do not understand it, do not initial it and each paragraph will be discussed with you separately....
Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK)
MARCH Massive Hemorrhage CAT Quickclot Compressed guaze Kerlex / Coban / Israeli gauze / ETD Duct tape iTClamp Airway NP airway King airway I-Gel airway Cric kit / Cric-Key / Control Cric kit Tracheotomy kit Laryngoscope Bag mask Respirations CPR face mask Chest seal...
IV Therapies for Cancer
In treating cancer IV infusions allow substances to have a stronger impact on the cancer cells.
Mold Exposure Testing
If you have been exposed to mold, suspect you have a mold related illness, or suffer from mysterious symptoms that doctors have not been able to explain, then testing for mold or mold toxins (mycotoxins) is in order. Screening Tests for Mold Exposure Visual Contrast...
Ductal Carcinoma in situ
There is controversy on just how aggressive we need to be in treating this common precancer. The following article sheds light on questions regarding the various treatment benefits. Ductal carcinoma in situ: to treat or not to treat, that is the question
Why Am I So Tired – Could it be Adrenal Fatigue?
The body has a marvelous system for dealing with acute stress, allowing us to meet challenges and perform at a high level both physically and mentally. But, chronic stress, day in and day out without respite, leads to burnout and numerous health problems, especially...
Whey Protein Concentrate versus Isolate
Here are the main steps in making whey protein isolate. Whole milk -> Cheesemaking -> Cheese and Whey (whey protein, a lot of lactose, a lot of minerals) Filtration... Whey protein concentrate (25-80% whey protein, up to 55% lactose, 1-7% fat) Micro...
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Starting the New Year with Healthy Habits
Here we go, again. New Years resolutions, goals, wishes... If you hope to improve your health, lose weight, live longer or live better, here are some tips. Follow these simple guidelines and you may find your New Years goals actually happen. Attitude Attitude...
Giving Thanks
Thanksgiving is our nation’s official time for giving thanks, counting our blessings, and sharing kindness and courtesy to friends, family and even strangers. The spirit of gratitude, defined as “the quality of being thankful, or readiness to show appreciation for and...
Get to the Root Cause with Functional Medicine
Each disease has a cause and a treatment, or so we are taught in medical school. Identify the disease then prescribe the drug or perform the surgery. This approach works well for many things, such as an acute infection or appendicitis, and indeed Western medicine has...