Functional medicine is an individualized, patient-centered, science-based approach that empowers patients and practitioners to work together to address the underlying causes of disease and promote optimal wellness. It requires a detailed understanding of each patient’s genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle factors and leverages that data to direct personalized treatment plans that lead to improved patient outcomes.
By addressing root cause, rather than symptoms, practitioners become oriented to identifying the complexity of disease. They may find one condition has many different causes and, likewise, one cause may result in many different conditions. As a result, functional medicine treatment targets the specific manifestations of disease in each individual.
Mary Gilbertson Wellness
If you’re looking for a holistic approach to your healthcare, check out our functional medicine, nutrition, and lifestyle clinic in Trumbull, CT.
Our Mission: At Mary Gilbertson Wellness, our mission is to empower others to improve their health by focusing on four holistic core concepts: the physical body, mental and spiritual health, and nutrition.
We offer holistic primary care and specialize in environmental medicine (detox), gut health, thyroid health, and cardiac and metabolic disorders, including a cardiometabolic weight loss center and hormone balancing for men and women.
Additional therapies include:
IM therapies: Vitamin B12, vitamin D3, glutathione, and lipotropic fat burners
Sunlighten two-person sauna: Infrared and red-light therapy; includes protocols for weight loss, immune function, sports recovery, inflammation and pain, detoxification, and relaxation.
The Celluma Pro: Photodynamic light therapy for facial collagen rejuvenation, fine wrinkles to face and décolleté, acne, scarring, migraine treatment, wound healing, and pain and inflammation.
We also offer:
- Customized supplement prescription plans using Fullscript
- IN-Body 570 Scale for metabolic testing, weight loss, muscle and skeletal mass, BMI, and body fat analysis
- Functional lab testing
- Thermography, also known as digital infrared thermal imaging (DITI), is an FDA-approved, safe (no radiation), non-invasive (pain-free) clinical imaging procedure that can detect and monitor a number of diseases and physical injuries, including back injuries, arthritis, headache, nerve damage, fibromyalgia, unexplained pain, dental infection, artery inflammation, carpal tunnel disease, disc disease, skin cancer, sprain/strain, and digestive disorders
- Testing for heavy metals, food allergies, food sensitivities, gluten and celiac, stool testing, hormone testing, and much more
Mary Gilbertson is an integrative nurse practitioner (APRN), clinical nutritionist, certified health coach, and lifestyle educator. She is trained in integrative, functional, and lifestyle medicine, holds specialty certifications in environmental medicine, and has been trained in detoxification at The Sanoviv Medical Institute in Baja California, Mexico, and The Swiss Mountain Clinic in Castaneda, Switzerland. She is board-certified in family medicine and is currently training for board certification in obesity medicine.
Mary enjoys working with people of all ages to attain optimal health through using lifestyle modalities and foods to heal. A lifelong student of healing modalities around the world, Mary has spent years researching and practicing many medicinal therapies, including natural medicine, herbals, spiritual wellness, and breathwork.
In her earlier years as a nurse, Mary cared for all ages in both acute and chronic care. She saw so many people suffering needlessly because they did not have the education or tools necessary to change lifestyle behaviors that promoted illness or learn the behaviors necessary to support wellness.
Mary Gilbertson Wellness was born out of a vision to create a full-service wellness clinic dedicated to treating the whole person while supporting the community in which she grew up.
You can schedule a 15-minute Complimentary Discovery Session to see how Mary can help you reach your wellness goals by visiting her website at www.marygilbertsonwellness.com.
Mary Gilbertson Wellness • 6515 Main St. Trumbull, CT 06611 • 203.521.4733 • www.marygilbertsonwellness.com • gilbertsonmary@yahoo.com
Uzma Zakir, RPh, bloomHigher
I’m Uzma Zakir, RPh, founder of bloomHigher. I am passionate about sharing my expertise on the healing benefits of the cannabis plant to educate and empower people on their brave choice to use cannabis as their medicine. By combining current research, my experience in treating patients in the CT MMJ landscape since 2015, and my traditional pharmacy background, I have developed a unique approach to patient care and speak extensively on best practices and cannabinoid science.
Cannabis as medicine is a controversial field that stands on decades of misinformation and propaganda, as well as centuries of documented medicinal use. I am a traditionally trained pharmacist and have been specializing in medical cannabis for eight years. I’ve had the honor to work with thousands of people to greatly improve their quality of life.
To be able to do this to the best of my ability and out of respect for my patients, I learned all I could about the human endocannabinoid system (ECS) and the purpose our endogenous cannabinoids serve in our physiology. Endocannabinoid deficiencies may contribute to many physical, mental, and emotional symptoms. I’ve developed a methodology to treat patients with phytocannabinoids to maximize the functions of the ECS to provide immediate symptomatic relief and long-term therapeutic benefits while avoiding unwanted effects.
The endocannabinoid system boasts over 20,000 scientific published reports since its discovery in the early 1990s. It is composed of endogenous cannabinoids named anandamide and 2-AG, cannabinoid 1 and 2 receptors, and degrading enzymes. Its title has recently been expanded to the Endocannabinoidome (eCBome) to include orphan receptors, transporters, and proteins, which indeed emphasizes its level of importance and ubiquity. It is a complex molecular signaling system with neuromodulatory functions throughout the body and brain to maintain homeostasis in systems such as the sleep-wake cycle, energy/metabolism, memory processing, stress response, pain thresholds, inflammatory response, and many more.
The cannabis plant contains more than 100 phytocannabinoids, and each cannabinoid interacts uniquely within the eCBome. THC, CBD, CBDA, THCA, CBN, and CBG are the top studied and widely available to the consumer. For example, THC interacts with the CB1 and CB2 receptors, while CBD interacts with more than 65 receptors.
The key to using cannabis medicinally is to understand the physiological effects of each cannabinoid, its immediate clinical effects, product integrity, and dosing. This is what I have been studying for the past eight years, and it’s why I founded bloomHigher.
In 2023, I presented at UCONN, xpoCanna, NECANN, the National Cannabis Festival, and the Cannabis Science Conference. I also hosted a popular monthly webinar until I left the corporate cannabis world to start my own endeavor to bring the plant back to the people. I am now in private practice in collaboration with two internal medicine physicians in Stamford, CT, at Ultimate Solutions Medical Spa. I provide care for those with chronic illnesses, anxiety, cannabis use disorder, autism, and much more. I am available for in-person and virtual sessions. I am also available for educational seminars.
Uzma Zakir, RPh, founder of bloomHigher, is passionate about sharing her expertise on the healing benefits of the cannabis plant to educate and empower people on their brave choice to use cannabis as their medicine. By combining current research, her experience in treating patients in the CT MMJ landscape since 2015, and her traditional pharmacy background, she has developed a unique approach to patient care and speaks extensively on best practices and cannabinoid science. In 2023, she presented at UCONN, xpoCanna, NECANN, the National Cannabis Festival, and the Cannabis Science Conference. Uzma hosted a popular monthly webinar until she left the corporate cannabis world to start her own endeavor to bring the plant back to the people. Uzma is now in private practice in collaboration with two internal medicine physicians in Stamford, CT, at Ultimate Solutions Medical Spa. She provides care for those with chronic illnesses, anxiety, cannabis use disorder, autism, and much more. She is available for in-person and virtual sessions. Uzma is also available for educational seminars.
BloomHigher • 203.751.1369 • bloom-higher.com • uzma@bloom-higher.com