Internal Medicine

A healthy lifestyle hello to all of the Tranquility family! My name is Dr. Terri Gillette, and I am joining the Tranquility team as a chiropractic physician with an emphasis on internal medicine.  As a patient, and now a staff member, at Tranquility, I know that the staff is committed to the health and wellness of every client/patient that walks through the door.  I am excited to be a new member of the team and look forward to meeting many of you in the coming months. 

I’d like to take this opportunity to briefly describe some of the services that I will be providing at Tranquility.  As I mentioned, my emphasis will be on internal medicine and natural treatments that will help each patient to attain and maintain optimal health.  Tranquility will be providing a full range of blood studies that will allow comprehensive assessment of your health status.  Based on your personal medical history, these studies may begin with basic chemistry and lipid panels along with a CBC and Vitamin D evaluation and will also include more specialized tests that are suited to determining your wellness level. 

Our capabilities also include assessment of delayed food sensitivities which are often the culprit in ailments such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Sinusitis, Chronic Ear Infections, many auto-immune disorders, and so much more.  It is interesting to find that up to 90% of the body’s immune function occurs in the GALT (gut associated lymphatic tissue), and that tissue is under assault daily as we may be eating substances that our bodies are not equipped to digest properly.  Sometimes, even the foods that we consider to be “healthy” are not well received by our digestive systems, and that leads to food sensitivity symptoms that may take up to 3 days to appear.  I don’t know about you, but for me that makes it very difficult to determine what food is making me feel less than stellar.  That’s where our blood tests come in.  We can draw your blood, send it off to the lab, and from there it is tested against almost 200 different foods to determine which ones cause the immune system to go into overdrive.  From that point, I will work with you to help you eliminate these foods from your diet, and in a very short period of time, you will see amazing results. 

In addition to these great tools, we will also be providing saliva and urine testing for hormone and neurotransmitter levels that may be affecting your quality of life by detracting from your ability to get a good night’s sleep, contributing to PMS and other menstrual-related disorders, or leading to a depression that you just don’t seem able to shake on your own.  Once the deficiencies are identified, it’s often possible to treat them with natural substances, lifestyle improvements and simple, non-pharmaceutical, non-side-effect inducing modalities such as acupuncture.