Our wellness center medical director, Dr. Michael Sharp, is a Harvard trained physician who served on the faculty of the UNC School of Medicine for 20 years before a growing dissatisfaction with the practice of mainstream medicine and his brush with serious illness led him to look outside the box. Over the last 20 years, he has steadily acquired a better understanding and approach to chronic illnesses of all types.
Effective approaches to healing must be broad, holistic, and based upon the knowledge that mind and body are one. Understanding and treating chronic illness requires uncovering and addressing roots of illness unique to each patient. A respectful, compassionate relationship with each client is of crucial importance to their healing process.
Effective approaches to healing must be broad, holistic, and based upon the knowledge that mind and body are one. Understanding and treating chronic illness requires uncovering and addressing roots of illness unique to each patient. A respectful, compassionate relationship with each client is of crucial importance to their healing process.
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The current Plum Spring Clinic is the result of a long metamorphosis of intertwined professional and personal development. In 1998, our Medical Director, Dr. Michael Sharp, was a faculty member of the UNC School of Medicine beginning to question the efficacy of the medicine he was trained in, and with a personal diagnosis of cancer.
Feel like stress is killing you? Well if it's your chronic state, it is no doubt contributing to the breakdown of healthy physiological processes, with harsh unwanted consequences. We experience stress as mental or emotional strain resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. It's true that for the majority of us, modern life is full of adverse or very demanding circumstances.
One of the most baffling categories of all disease is caused by the body's own immune defense systems acting against itself. There are hundreds of illnesses that we now know are caused by the body's own immune system attempting to fight the body's own tissues. Approximately 50 million Americans, 20 percent of the population or one in five people, suffer from autoimmune diseases, with women being disproportionately affected.
To understand an autoimmune illness, one must understand the function and processes of the immune system itself. Innate Immune System: You are born with this immune system and its main form of defense is the utilization of phagocytes. When something the system identifies as a threat is detected, these phagocytes are immediately deployed.
Painful joints can be extremely destructive to our overall health. The pain can come in many different forms. Some individuals may experience intense sharp pain from a particular joint while others experience dull aches in many or all their joints at once.
Whether experienced as dull aches with stiffness, burning, or even shards of glass in a joint, any type of chronic pain places us under a high level of stress and causes a significant decrease in our quality of life.When our joints hurt, a vicious cycle can emerge where the pain causes decreased activity which then causes more joint pain and stiffness.
Whether experienced as dull aches with stiffness, burning, or even shards of glass in a joint, any type of chronic pain places us under a high level of stress and causes a significant decrease in our quality of life.When our joints hurt, a vicious cycle can emerge where the pain causes decreased activity which then causes more joint pain and stiffness.
Reviews (9)
Rebekah Byrd
Oct 12, 2020
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Pete Barber
Aug 31, 2019
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Michael not only turned my health around; he turned my life around. Without a doubt my cancer remission today is a direct result of Michael’s personalized wellness program which was implemented by he and his staff, Kathleen and Nate, at that time. My mind, body and soul benefits form his wholistic approach. I recommend him highly.
George Burns
Aug 10, 2019
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Karen McCall
Aug 09, 2019
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My experience at Plum Spring Clinic has been wonderful! The clinic is the antithesis of corporate medicine: it is a place of highly skilled, intelligent, and respectful healers who utilize the very best of science to help their patients. They also understand the role of beauty, attitude, intuition, and compassion in promoting wellness.
For decades, I had experienced chronic fatigue and I seemed to catch every virus that wandered my way so that I was sometimes bedridden for up to 6 months annually. Dr. Sharpe, Nate and Kathleen were all very helpful in turning this around. Dr. Sharpe listened attentively
For decades, I had experienced chronic fatigue and I seemed to catch every virus that wandered my way so that I was sometimes bedridden for up to 6 months annually. Dr. Sharpe, Nate and Kathleen were all very helpful in turning this around. Dr. Sharpe listened attentively
Cara Jones
Dec 28, 2018
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The whole team has been very helpful in my journey to health. Dr. Sharp incorporates trauma treatment to help resolve chronic issues as needed, Nate is a very helpful guide for nutrition and supplements, and Kathleen is a wealth of experience and guidance to better self care and emotional regulation. Highly recommend if you’re struggling to find answers to chronic illness
Jennifer Leech
Sep 06, 2017
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This is what medicine should be like. Caring, listening, treating the whole person with integrative knowledge, expertise and wisdom. Dr Sharp is a real treasure! For anyone going through cancer, visit his new cancer clinic- this kind of care has not existed in our area until now and is so incredibly valuable as cancer is not just physical, it is mental and emotional. His team offers exceptional support no matter your healing journey.
Maria Logan
Aug 27, 2017
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Despite debilitating symptoms, several doctors said they could find nothing "wrong" with me. I'd lost most hope for ever being well again until I found Dr. Sharp. I will always have much respect and gratitude for his care, kindness, and deep understanding of how the human body and mind work. He dug deeper than the average doctor to get to the root causes of my ailments. I'm healthy again, and I'm so incredibly thankful for the help I received.
Lorre Fleming
Jun 23, 2017
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With genuine kindness and compassion born of his own healing journey, Dr. Sharp creates an environment in which one can feel safe and empowered to find wellness. Skilled in traditional Western allopathic medicine, Chinese medicine and modern trauma healing techniques, Dr. Sharp is a truly holistic physician, with a truly holistic practice. Health coach Kathleen Williams and nutrition specialist Nate Kelly provide compassionate, wise, expert guidance in navigating the healing journey. I cannot recommend this practice highly enough.
Nandani Lynton
Jul 21, 2016
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Although I do not live in the triangle, I visit regularly and have been treated three times by Dr Michael Sharp. Each visit he took time to thoroughly understand the situation and asked adjacent questions. His diagnosis and treatment were always excellent. I still follow much of his overall advice a long time later because it is so helpful. I feel seen and treated very holistically and whole heartedly recommend the Plum Spring Clinic.
