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The Mental and Physical Fatigue That Sleep Can't Fix: Could Iron Deficiency Be the Missing Piece?
You go to bed exhausted. You wake up exhausted. You sleep eight hours, maybe even more, but you still feel like you're dragging yourself through the day. Your coffee intake keeps climbing. Exercise feels harder than it used to. Your heart races when you stand up too quickly. You can't seem to get restorative sleep no matter what you try. If this sounds familiar, iron deficiency may be worth investigating. Most people associate iron deficiency with anemia, but many don't reali

Umu Coomber-ARNP-PMHNP-BC
11 hours ago4 min read


Friendships with High Functioning Autism- Frederick MD-When Your Child's Best Friend Makes New Friends: Understanding the Hidden Struggle
Your child comes home from school and goes straight to their room. They don't want to talk. When you finally get them to open up, the story comes out in pieces: their best friend has been sitting with someone else at lunch. Their friend group made plans without them. Everyone seems to be moving on — and your child feels frozen in place, unable to figure out what went wrong or how to fix it. For most kids, friendship shifts are a normal — if painful — part of growing up. But f

Umu Coomber-ARNP-PMHNP-BC
5 days ago9 min read


PMDD vs ADHD vs Anxiety in Teen Girls
When Hormones, Attention, and Emotional Overwhelm Start to Look the Same Many teenage girls are told they are: “too emotional” “lazy” “dramatic” “disorganized” “overreacting” “not trying hard enough” But sometimes what looks like a behavior problem is actually an untreated medical, hormonal, or neuropsychiatric condition. And sometimes it is more than one condition happening at the same time. At AXXIUMS™, one of the biggest patterns we see in adolescent girls is the overlap b

Umu Coomber-ARNP-PMHNP-BC
May 255 min read
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