Toward a Healthier You!
Welcome to My Passion 4 Health, where helping your health is our passion!
Our practice is dedicated to helping you find the cause of your symptoms.
We’ll help your body to use its own innate healing abilities to restore health.
Mary Ackerley MD, MD(H), ABIHM is a classically trained board certified psychiatrist and integrative physician. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, studied at NIMH and finished her residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Mary began to treat patients of biotoxin illness in 2010 being certified to treat CIRS in 2013. Currently her treatments span beyond the limits of a single protocol. She continues to build her foundational knowledge expanding into the fields of neuro-immunology and systems biology.
Patients commonly come to her with conditions of anxiety, depression, brain fog and chronic fatigue. Her special skills include the ability to manage cognitive and psychiatric symptoms that often occur in complex chronic illness using natural treatments or allopathic meds when necessary. Many testimonials state they have never felt this well before.
Dr. Ackerley currently holds active medical licenses in Arizona, Florida and California.
Where Our Passion is for Your Health
What do you want to change? Do you want to lose weight or feel more energetic? Do you want to lose the sadness, fatigue and anxiety that make living at times seems painful? Or do you want to feel less burdened by the toxins of life? Come explore and experience many different natural treatment modalities that can help you achieve these goals in a natural, safe, and effective way.
The most important resource you possess is your mental and physical health. Yet few have any idea how to take care of, or even enhance, this most precious resource. Dr. Ackerley and her team pride themselves on the amount of education they offer in helping you learn what is best for yourself, and what steps need to be taken to achieve these goals. This education and empowerment will serve you well in making health choices for the rest of your life.
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Chronic illnesses are on the rise and treating physicians are continuously stretched to understand the complexities involved in helping those affected. Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration can be common experiences for patients with complex chronic illnesses and can also, unfortunately, be overlooked or misdiagnosed. The use of NeuroQuant MRIs can help trained clinicians better understand the individual needs of a patient through neuroscience. In this free ebook, Dr. Ackerley reviews some basic information about NeuroQuants and how this diagnostic tool has played an essential role in her practice as she help patients recover from chronic illness.
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Past Newsletters
Healing Foods And Winter Recipe
Neuroinflammation and Mental Health
Mycotoxins, Chronic Illness, and Trauma
When a Tick Bites a Mold Patient
Chronic Fatigue: Some Promising News
ISEAI Mold Illness Research Donation Announcement
Dr. Ackerley’s Outbreak Resources
Find more insightful tips and health information on Dr. Mary’s blog page!
The Role of Inflammation in Psychiatry
Over the years, Dr. Ackerley has helped patients understand the deeper causes involved in their mental health diagnoses. She is known for her article Brain on Fire which discusses the role of biotoxins in psychiatry. This MindHealth360 interview delves deeper into the topic – exploring the range of mediators which can be involved in mental health symptoms and some basic integrative approaches to help reduce neuroinflammation.
Ehlers–Danlos, Mast Cells & Chronic Illness
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, POTS and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome are all too common in Dr. Ackerley’s practice. Understanding these conditions and the role they play in chronic illness is essential for many patients as they recover. Learn more in the video below and be sure to check out the Brain on Fire episode referenced in the video. If you would like to follow along with this patient journey, you can find her on TikTok here.
Video Library
May 2022 – NeuroQuant Perspectives
July 2021 – The Impact of Biotoxins & Neuroinflammation on Mental Health
January 28, 2021 – Tucson Mold Support Group Presentation
December 14, 2020 – Dr. Jill Interviews Dr. Mary Ackerley About Mold-Related Illness
July 30, 2020 – Tucson Mold Support Group Presentation
March 26, 2020 – Coronavirus Suggestions for Mold Patients (Tucson Mold Support Group)
Click here for a Resources Summary PDF from Dr. Ackerley (March 26, 2020)
November 4, 2017 on BetterHealthGuy.com
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