Dr. Shiroko Sokitch
Holistic Medicine
Santa Rosa, CA
39 years experience female
Locations
Office
Santa Rosa, CA
Heart to Heart Medical Center
Santa Rosa, CA
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Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Holistic Medicine
Allergy and Immunology
Family Medicine
Pain Management
Preventive Medicine
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152 Answers
18 Agrees
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
Sit quietly: Start by sitting quietly, many find its easier with soft music playing. Close your eyes, observe your thoughts. You can imagine that all your thoughts... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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I: I recommend committing to regular exercise, even if it's 10 minutes.
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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None: There are many supplements that are for weight loss. I feel like a balanced healthy diet, and good exercise regime is the best for helping you lose we... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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Hormone imbalance: You might have more estrogen than Progesterone in your system, which may vary during different months.
Start with taking omega fatty acids, and a go... Read More
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A 45-year-old female asked:
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Yes, its mineral oil: Mineral oil blocks your skin pores and doesn't really create any moisture, sesame oil is way better.
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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Yes: Yes, your hormones can vary over the month especially if you have been under stress. You could start the month out with your estrogen levels low, and ... Read More
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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Pregnant bleeding: You should at least contact your doctor if you're having those symptoms. It is sometimes normal to have a little spotting early in pregnancy but it ca... Read More
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A 29-year-old male asked:
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Degenerative neck: If you are only 29 years old and have problems with your neck already, I would try to avoid surgery if you can. There are too many levels of involveme... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Gastritis: Gastritis is an irritation of your stomach lining. It is usually because you either took a medication that irritated it, or ate too much of something ... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Qi stagnation: In chinese medicine, which i think is the best way to study menstrual problems, the liver regulates your menstrual cycle. When the liver isn't working... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
Space them out: Ideally you take your vitamins spaced out through the day but ultimately, its better to take them than to skip so if you find you can only take them o... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Running club: If you really want to lose weight quickly running is helpful. It seems to help people really slim down especially if you run 5 days a week for at leas... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Of course!: The short answer is yes, and really the chinese medicine philosophy of everything in moderation should be followed here. People often think that if a ... Read More
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A 30-year-old male asked:
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Low carbs: Eat a low carb, fairly low fat diet, it might help reduce your love handles. But also, you should add in exercise.
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Vitamin D: This is a tough question to answer because all vitamins have a place, but looking at your history, the single most important vitamin to make sure you ... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Vegetables: In my experience, there is no fast weight loss pill. If you up your low carb vegetable intake to 80% of your diet, you will lose weight because you wi... Read More
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A 18-year-old male asked:
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Yes: You would have to define ab exercises, you would need to do more than just crunches, but you could totally lose abdominal fat by doing low carb diet a... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Oil of oregano is good for killing all sorts of creatures including yeast, bacteria and even viruses. So it doesn't have the same effect on your body ... Read More
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A 52-year-old female asked:
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Depends: Usually takes 6 weeks for something to heal without help. But it depends what is wrong with your shoulder. Usually you need to do something to help it... Read More
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A 35-year-old female asked:
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Hours: If you are taking antibiotics you should take your probiotic several hours later, but.... There is a probiotic that isn't killed by antibiotics becaus... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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No: No laxatives don't help with weight loss and overusing them can be very dangerous. It can mess up your digestion and your colon health. They should on... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Not enough info: You need more information, such as your Insulin level, your testosterone level, what else is going on. How did you get diagnosed with pcos?
I would n... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Ask: Ask about acupuncture, yoga, or chiropractic options. Have your thyroid checked as well.
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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You: You can get more cardio just jumping around to your favorite music in your living room.
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A 47-year-old female asked:
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Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
B vitamins: You may also have trouble actually absorbing any of your vitamins. There is a lab that tests for all vitamins, their name is spectracell, you should f... Read More
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A 25-year-old male asked:
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Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
Maybe: As long as you aren't allergic to whey, you should be able to take whey protein. Mostly oas is believed to be due to fruits or residual tree pollens o... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Depends: Your rate of weight loss depends on many factors. If its just calories in versus calories out, then you would lose weight fairly rapidly with this pro... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
Yes and no: With hand tingling you have to ask a few more questions. Is it tingling all day? Are you sleeping with your arm above your head, is your neck hurting?... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Yes: You should be able to take B12 and iron at the same time. Iron does however interfere with other vitamins and minerals being absorbed such as calcium,... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
Maybe: If your period isn't usually 3 days long, then this would not be normal for you. But you can have normal hormone variations that change your period. I... Read More
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A 55-year-old male asked:
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Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
Rebalance flora: If you take a bunch of probiotics, and drink more water, it might help your body re-calibrate. After stomach flu, your intestinal flora probably got o... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
When taking a tylenol (acetaminophen) in the morning is it safe to have a glass of wine the evening?
Dr. Shiroko Sokitchanswered
Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
Yes: Always it depends on the dosage of tylenol (acetaminophen) and wine. But if truly you only took one tylenol (acetaminophen) and then had a glass of wi... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Inositol: Inositol will help anxiety and won't interact with ativan (lorazepam). Yes, you can take it in juice.
You should probably stop the Ativan (lorazepam)... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
Exercise and diet: If you need to lose weight, you basically need to change your diet. My favorite "easy" diet is to go low on carbs, eat lots of low carb vegetables, an... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:
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Ignore: If you have a torn meniscus, try acupuncture, it might help heal it. Proper exercise can also help.
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A 38-year-old male asked:
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Ask your doctor: if you've had a semen culture there must be a reason for it, so I would treat based on the reason the culture was taken. In other words, I would ask y... Read More
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A female asked:
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Neck strain: You might have strained your neck in such a way that your nerves are inflamed. I would see if it stays that way or gets better. One common advice is t... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Vitamin c has been shown to shorten the duration of a cold and it helps dry up the mucous you get with a cold.
It also helps your connective tissues ... Read More
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A 39-year-old male asked:
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Yes: Yes, apparently popcorn has linoleic acid.
Here is a link about its nutrition.
https://www.usaemergencysupply.com/information_center/all_about_grains/... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Discover: Discover the secret to true love by starting to become your own best friend.
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Very high: Its actually fairly common to have a miscarriage early in pregnancy. And your chances of having a normal healthy pregnancy are great. Wait a little wh... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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If: If you crave sugar, eat nuts, they have protein and good fats and fill you up.
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A 22-year-old male asked:
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Usually you don't : If she is on birth control pills and has been on them for more than a month, her chance of getting pregnant is less than 2%. Or 2 out of a hundred. So... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
Yes, yoga is great: Yoga can be a great workout. It depends on what style you do, you can do an aerobic style or you can do a gentle style for stretching and strengthenin... Read More
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A 34-year-old male asked:
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Holistic Medicine 39 years experience
More than calories : If you are trying to lose weight its not just how many calories you eat, but what you eat, and how you exercise that matters. Many say that only calor... Read More
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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2 pounds per week: Should be easy to achieve. But you are at an age where your hormones are shifting, you may need some other support for your weight loss.
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Make: Make a smoothie and put some organic spinach leaves in it.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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At least 5: You should work out more than you eat. If you work out at least 5 days a week for an hour at a time, and you don't eat a ton of food to make up for i... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Ignore: If you have ibd, you might be allergic to gluten.
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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D, omega, selenium: Vitamin d, omega fatty acids, and selenium and probably zinc play a role in balancing skin.
Also beta carotene does sometimes.
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Dr. Donald Jacobson
Sep 1, 2013
Dr. Sokitch shows deep insight into human nature. Her patients are fortunate to have such an insightful and caring doctor.
HealthTap member
Apr 6, 2015
i am 24 years old girl my breast is so heavy i want to reduce my breast size with exercise ... plz give my problm solution as soon as pocible
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Sokitch is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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This saved my life. Thank You! That surely saved my life. I am trying to clean my body from toxins so the last thing I want to do is putting more poison in it:) Thank u<3
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Thank you, your post was very helpful! Thank you! You are a very Wise woman, and I appreciate your holistic (mind, body, spirit integration) insight to our well-being.
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Seriously this happens lots of time with me my mood swings,depression.but I didnt knew the reason behind it.and now I knew it.thanku so much
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Graduated 1984MD
Awards
Top Doctor, First Place, Santa Rosa, CA - Winter
2013
Most Influential, Second Place, Santa Rosa, CA - Winter
2013
Thought Leader, Second Place, Santa Rosa, CA - Winter
2013
Affiliations
AAMA
AMMG
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