Rhythms and Routines – Susan Payrovi

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Susan Payrovi, MD, is a triple board-certified physician in anesthesiology, hospice and palliative medicine, and integrative medicine. Payrovi is also certified in functional medicine and medical acupuncture. She is a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University, where her clinical practice focuses on non-pharmaceutical lifestyle treatments of chronic disease. As part of her commitment to support the MS community, she has created an online wellness program called “TRUE Medicine” to ensure everyone has access to the lifestyle treatments that reliably improve immune health from the root cause.

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How functional dentistry can help to reduce immune and toxic stress

The family joke is that Mom pulls everyone out of school and work for an entire day, twice a year, just so we don’t get dental work. I like my dentists conservative and careful. That is what functional, biological dentistry is all about, and this integrative physician and mom who…

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Embracing the helper’s high: How I learned to thrive with MS

I was driving home the other day when something in my rearview mirror caught my attention: A giant pickup truck had flipped over in the fast lane of the highway. It did not look good. I pulled over on the left shoulder and ran to help, completely forgetting the back…

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How setting an intention helps me live well with MS

If it weren’t for multiple sclerosis (MS) and my practice as a lifestyle medicine physician, I’m not sure I’d be chasing after better health so vigorously. There simply wouldn’t be enough momentum to push me into action. But as there are silver linings to everything, MS has positioned me…

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It takes a force of nature to fortify me against MS

While most people dread the longer nights of autumn and winter, I embrace every single minute of darkness added as we crawl toward the longest night of the year. As darkness takes over, that’s my cue to gather up all the energy I expended during spring and summer to…

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The joy and vulnerability of dance help me live with multiple sclerosis

Music and dance have always been my medicine. From decompressing during medical school to adjusting to life with multiple sclerosis (MS) or getting through motherhood, music and movement have never let me down. We all have that friend we dream with, making preposterous plans. For me, that friend was…

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Is time in nature an overlooked therapy for MS symptoms?

As all good things must come to an end, so did our epic overseas adventure in a recreational vehicle that was too tiny to live in and too big to drive into any European village. We devoted those five weeks to quality time with family, unplugging from devices, and…

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Managing my MS symptoms by spending time outdoors

With just four more summers with all my kids still living at home, I’ve been making the most of our time together by throwing everyone in our trailer to visit state and national parks in the U.S. This summer we’re overseas in Europe, experiencing the lesser-known sights only accessible by…


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