Dr. Carrie Mousseau is an internal medicine physician, with over 15 years experience incorporating alternative medicine with mainstream medical practice. She specializes in gastroenterology and food intolerances, hormone replacement, preventive and chronic disease management, general medicine, and prolotherapy. She is affectionately known by her patients as “Dr. Carrie”. Dr. Carrie received her allopathic medical training at New York Medical College and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara. Prior to this, she received her undergraduate Bachelors of Science degree in Genetics at UC Davis. Dr. Carrie is further trained in the following: Functional medicine Endocrinology (including) Adrenal, gonadal, and thyroidal disorders Bio-identical hormone replacement Gastroenterology Parasitology Nutrition Cardiology Learning disabilities & autism spectrum disorders Sports injuries Myofascial pain Trigger point injections Prolotherapy Dr. Carrie enjoys collaborating with multidisciplinary practitioners to improve her patients’ total health. Addressing the “whole patient” is a fundamental tenet Dr. Carrie has always insisted on. Dr. Carrie collaborates with Dr. Fong to address medical needs for the clinic and supporting the different modalities offered at NaturalStart Medicine. Trained in adult medicine, but comfortable with pediatrics from her prior work experience, she sees patients of all ages for acute/urgent care and to follow chronic conditions or as an out-of-network ‘primary care physician’. It is important to note that Dr. Carrie does not retain hospital privileges nor will she be available for on-call services outside the usual clinic hours (unless temporarily prearranged to follow acute illnesses). It is important to keep access to a hospital linked primary care physician for emergencies. She treats chronic lax ligaments, tendons, and joints with dextrose based prolotherapy. She has 15 years of experience. Please see our website for more information on prolotherapy