CellMed Clinics

10/22/2026

Removing reactive foods is only the beginning.

It’s not the entire treatment.

When I identify foods that appear to be contributing to a patient’s symptoms, temporarily removing them may be part of the plan.

But what happens next is just as important.

We need to address the health of the gastrointestinal tract.

That means developing an individualized strategy to support a healthy, diverse microbiome, address underlying sources of inflammation, and support the integrity and function of the intestinal lining.

And then comes a step I consider incredibly important:

Reintroducing foods.

Because living on a highly restricted diet indefinitely is not my idea of good medicine.

It’s difficult to sustain. It can compromise nutritional adequacy. And frankly, it can make eating miserable.

Food is nourishment. It’s also family dinners, celebrations, travel, and quality of life.

I want my patients eating a wide variety of nutritious foods—not spending the rest of their lives afraid of what’s on their plates.

That’s why I approach this as a process, with an individualized treatment strategy, appropriate follow-up, and thoughtful food reintroduction when safe.

Not every food needs to come back. Confirmed food allergies and conditions like celiac disease require specific, ongoing avoidance.

But unnecessary lifelong restriction shouldn’t be our default.

The goal isn’t to see how many foods we can eliminate. It’s to help you enjoy as many foods as possible while supporting your health.

— Dr. Darla Logan

10/21/2026

“But I eat really healthy.”

I hear this all the time. And I believe you.

Here’s something I’ve learned, both personally and in clinical practice:

Just because a food is considered healthy doesn’t mean it’s necessarily the right food for you.

I experienced this myself.

I was eating foods that were supposed to be good for me, yet I was struggling with joint pain.

When I started looking more closely at my diet and how my body responded to specific foods, things began to change.

And that’s an important distinction.

We aren’t all the same.

A food that works beautifully for one person may cause symptoms in someone with an allergy, intolerance, or another underlying condition.

When I evaluate unexplained symptoms, I want to look beyond whether someone is eating a “healthy diet.”

I want to understand what they’re eating, how they’re feeling, and whether there’s a meaningful connection.

Sometimes that involves testing for specific conditions. Sometimes it involves a structured elimination and reintroduction process.

The goal isn’t to make your diet smaller and smaller.

The goal is to figure out what actually works for YOUR body.

Because eating healthy should help you feel better—not leave you wondering why you still hurt.

— Dr. Darla Logan

10/21/2026

Happy Medical Assistant Day!

The ones who know where everything is, calm every patient, and keep us all alive… basically superheroes in scrubs 🦸♀️🩺

10/20/2026

“I’m doing everything right. So why do my joints still hurt?”

You’re exercising. Eating healthy. Taking your supplements. Drinking your water.

But your joints still hurt.

Maybe you’ve seen your primary care provider. Maybe you’ve been referred to rheumatology. Your testing comes back normal.

And now what?

Joint pain is complicated. Hormones, thyroid function, inflammatory conditions, exercise recovery, hydration, sleep, and gut health can all be part of the picture.

But there’s another question I like to ask:

Could something in your diet be contributing to your symptoms?

I’ve experienced this personally.

I had joint pain that didn’t seem to have an obvious explanation. Eventually, I identified foods that appeared to be contributing to my symptoms—even foods I had considered healthy.

Changing my diet made a meaningful difference.

That’s why I don’t believe in assuming that one definition of “healthy eating” works for everyone.

The goal isn’t to restrict more foods unnecessarily.

It’s to understand what’s happening in YOUR body and build a treatment plan around that.

Normal testing doesn’t mean your symptoms aren’t real. It means we may need to keep asking questions.

— Dr. Darla Logan

10/19/2026

What if it’s NOT just your brain injury?

You’ve had a concussion. Maybe a car accident. Maybe a sports injury. Maybe a traumatic brain injury (TBI) years ago.

And you’ve been struggling with:

Brain fog.
Memory difficulties.
Poor concentration.
Exhaustion.
Sleep disturbances.
Mood changes.
Headaches.

You’ve been told these symptoms are related to your brain injury.

And maybe they are.

But here’s my question: Has anyone considered perimenopause or menopause?

Because here’s something we don’t talk about nearly enough.

The symptoms of menopause and TBI can look remarkably similar.

And for women in their 40s and 50s, hormonal changes may be contributing to symptoms that have been attributed entirely to a previous neurological injury.

Here’s where it gets even more interesting.

TBI can sometimes disrupt the hypothalamic-pituitary system — the very system responsible for regulating several of our hormones.

So what are we actually treating?

Persistent effects of a brain injury?

The menopausal transition?

Hormonal dysfunction related to the injury itself?

Or could it be more than one thing?

A history of TBI doesn’t mean every future neurological symptom is caused by that injury.

And menopause doesn’t automatically explain every cognitive complaint either.

But when a woman is struggling with persistent symptoms, shouldn’t we be looking at the whole picture?

Her neurological history.
Her hormonal health.
Her sleep.
Her metabolic health.
Her medications.
Her overall physiology.

Because sometimes the diagnosis we’ve already made becomes the reason we stop asking questions.

And that’s where we risk missing something important.

Maybe the question shouldn’t just be, “How do we treat your brain injury?”

Maybe we should also be asking:

“What else has changed in your body since that injury?”

Your previous diagnosis deserves consideration.

But it shouldn’t be the end of the investigation.

10/19/2026

Let’s talk about peptides.

They’re all the rage.

They’re a hot topic. A controversial topic.

Some doctors love them. Some doctors hate them. And even the federal government seems a little obsessed with them.

Is it a peptide?
Is it a protein?
Should it be regulated?
Can we make it illegal?
Where did it come from?
All peptides are amazing!
All peptides are dangerous!
Let’s fine, punish and jail the peptide users and prescribers!

I frankly can’t flip open an app without hearing something about peptides.

What’s next?

“Peptides are in the Bible!”

I mean… maybe. But I haven’t come across that verse yet. 😂

I joke. Mostly.

But there’s a piece missing from a lot of these conversations:

Peptides don’t replace physiology.

They work best when we’re also supporting the basic systems they’re intended to work with.

Are you eating enough — and getting adequate protein?

Are you sleeping?

Are you moving your body and maintaining muscle?

Are we addressing hormonal changes when appropriate?

What about stress, recovery and metabolic health?

Because adding the latest peptide while ignoring all of that is a little like washing your dishes in toilet water.

Technically, the job got done.

But who wants to eat at that office potluck? 😂

Peptides can be incredibly interesting tools. But they’re still tools.

The sexy new intervention doesn’t make the fundamentals obsolete.

In fact, I would argue the fundamentals are what give our interventions the best environment in which to work.

Eat. Sleep. Move. Recover. Optimize what needs optimizing.

Then let’s talk about whether a peptide belongs in the plan.

10/16/2026

If “experimental medicine” means we don’t have enough research…

then we need to have an uncomfortable conversation about women’s health.

Because for decades, women were underrepresented — and sometimes intentionally excluded — from clinical research.

Female hormones were considered complicating variables.

Menstrual cycles were inconvenient for study design.

Pregnant women were routinely excluded.

And then we took data generated largely from male physiology and applied it to women.

So when someone tells me that an approach to women’s health is “experimental” because we don’t have enough research, my next question is:

Compared to what?

Because lack of evidence and evidence that something doesn’t work are not the same thing.

That doesn’t mean we abandon evidence-based medicine.

It means we acknowledge where the evidence is strong, where it is limited, and where women have been asked to live with unanswered questions because the research simply hasn’t caught up.

Women deserve rigorous research.

They also deserve physicians willing to recognize the limitations of the research we currently have.

“We haven’t studied it enough” should be a call for better science — not the end of the conversation.

10/16/2026

Metformin is one of the most commonly prescribed medications for blood sugar management.

It can also reduce vitamin B12 levels with long-term use.

Why does that matter?

B12 plays important roles in red blood cell formation, neurologic function and DNA synthesis, and deficiency can contribute to fatigue, neurologic symptoms and other problems.

So yes — if you take metformin, B12 status is something worth knowing about and monitoring when appropriate.

But I have a bigger question.

Why isn’t comprehensive nutrition and lifestyle education treated with the same urgency as the prescription?

And maybe an even bigger question:

Why have we created a healthcare system where it can be easier to prescribe a medication than to provide someone with meaningful education and support around:

Nutrition.
Protein and muscle.
Movement.
Sleep.
Stress.
Body composition.
And the daily behaviors affecting metabolic health.

This isn’t an argument against medication.

Sometimes medication is absolutely appropriate.

It’s an argument against medication being the entire conversation.

If we’re going to treat abnormal blood sugar, shouldn’t we also be asking why it’s abnormal in the first place — and what we can change?

Medication can be part of healthcare.

But a prescription should never replace an education.

10/15/2026

10/15/2026

I feel like women have been taught to fear their bodies.

Weight gain.
Periods.
Pregnancy.
Perimenopause.
Menopause.
Aging.
Hunger.
Fat.
Hormones.

Somewhere along the way, normal female physiology became something to control, suppress, correct or apologize for.

And when something changes, many women immediately assume their body is failing them.

But what if we changed the conversation?

What if instead of being at war with our bodies, we learned how they actually work?

What if we acknowledged that there is tremendous individual variation — and stopped expecting every woman to feel her best at the same weight, eating the same diet, sleeping the same number of hours, or having the same hormone levels?

Women deserve more than a reference range and a recommendation to “eat less and exercise more.”

We deserve education about nutrition, muscle, hormones, sleep, stress response, metabolism and aging.

And then we deserve care that asks:

What does THIS woman need?

Your body isn’t the enemy.

Understanding it changes everything.