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Feb 7
3 min

Know your Farmer and Buy Directly from Them– Organic Agriculture in Boise, Idaho

Our food production system in the United States is broken. We aggressively till the soil releasing carbon every year. We then fertilize t...

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Bill Brandenburg, MD

Jan 30
1 min

Preparing for the Covid19 Vaccine

The Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines are 95% effective and very safe overall. Wander Medicine recommends that everyone receive one of the...

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Direct Primary Care is a Better Way to Consume Healthcare

Bill Brandenburg, MD

Jan 23
3 min

Direct Primary Care is a Better Way to Consume Healthcare

Primary care is the most important aspect of the clinical healthcare system. Unfortunately, in a fee-for-service model, there is no incen...

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Plant Medicine, Ayahuasca, and Indigenous Culture in the Southern Peruvian Amazon

Bill Brandenburg, MD

Dec 19, 2020
21 min

Plant Medicine, Ayahuasca, and Indigenous Culture in the Southern Peruvian Amazon

William E Brandenburg, MD June 14, 2019 Introduction In my third year of residency, I spent some time in the Peruvian Amazon studying pla...

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Immunizations at Wander Medicine and the Rise of Preventable Infectious Diseases

Bill Brandenburg, MD

Dec 9, 2020
3 min

Immunizations at Wander Medicine and the Rise of Preventable Infectious Diseases

Immunizations represent the greatest medical therapy advancement ever achieved by humans. They allow us to cure and eradicate diseases th...

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Karlee Brandenburg, RN-BSN

Nov 23, 2020
4 min

Vitamin C Therapy at Wander Medicine

What is vitamin C? Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is an essential vitamin found in several foods and sold as a dietary supplemen...

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Bill Brandenburg, MD

Oct 20, 2020
7 min

Ketamine and Outer Space

Ketamine Basics Ketamine is a small molecule used as medication in both humans and animals. It effects many targets throughout the body, ...

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Bill Brandenburg, MD

Oct 7, 2020
12 min

Healthy Diets

Introduction We are what we eat, drink, and breathe. While our bodies can do amazing biochemical things to what we ingest, our choices ma...

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Karlee Brandenburg, RN-BSN

Sep 21, 2020
5 min

Vitamin B12 Therapy at Wander Medicine

Vitamin B12 Deficiency Vitamin B12 is the largest and most complex vitamin. It is an essential water soluble vitamin found in the food we...

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Bill Brandenburg, MD

Aug 31, 2020
12 min

Pregnancy Care and Lifestyle Checklist

This checklist is meant to help future parents understand and navigate the pre-pregnancy and pregnancy period. It summarizes all of the b...

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Depression Treatment and Ketamine Therapy at Wander Medicine in Boise, Idaho

Bill Brandenburg, MD

Aug 28, 2020
8 min

Depression Treatment and Ketamine Therapy at Wander Medicine in Boise, Idaho

This blog post is meant to serve as a roadmap for anyone suffering from depression. We are going to talk about Wander Medicine’s approach...

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Bill Brandenburg, MD

Aug 22, 2020
7 min

The Polypharmacy Epidemic

Before our entire health conversation became centered around the COVID19 pandemic, there was the opioid epidemic. This opioid epidemic st...

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The Crazy Inside All of Us – Part 2: Defense Mechanisms

Bill Brandenburg, MD

Aug 13, 2020
10 min

The Crazy Inside All of Us – Part 2: Defense Mechanisms

Everyone is going crazy right now. Coronavirus has killed over half a million people worldwide, the economy is struggling tremendously, m...

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The Crazy Inside All of Us – Part 1: Personality Disorders

Bill Brandenburg, MD

Jul 15, 2020
12 min

The Crazy Inside All of Us – Part 1: Personality Disorders

Have you ever noticed that everyone around you is crazy? I certainly have, especially now. When you really get to know someone, you get t...

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Screening Tests and Treatments for the Prevention of Disease, Cancer, and Infections – Part 2

Bill Brandenburg, MD

Jun 18, 2020
9 min

Screening Tests and Treatments for the Prevention of Disease, Cancer, and Infections – Part 2

In Part 1, I discussed preventative screenings and treatments for children, adolescents, and pregnant women. Please take a look at Part 1...

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Screening Tests and Treatments for the Prevention of Disease, Cancer, and Infections – Part 1

Bill Brandenburg, MD

Jun 5, 2020
11 min

Screening Tests and Treatments for the Prevention of Disease, Cancer, and Infections – Part 1

Cancer and disease prevention are underutilized in the United States along with many other countries. Poor health literacy, patient perso...

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