Your Health Is More Than Your Symptoms.
Explore the physical, nutritional, and emotional factors influencing your health—and discover a more individualized path forward.
Includes Dr. Mark’s review of your health history and written, personalized recommendations for next steps.
Three dimensions. One individualized approach.
Health problems rarely have a single cause. Dr. Mark looks at how body chemistry, physical structure and emotional patterns interact, then helps you decide which matters most right now.
What you eat, absorb and are exposed to, and how it affects energy, inflammation and recovery.
Explore nutrition →Chiropractic care for joints, posture and mechanical stress, so the body can move and function well.
Explore chiropractic care →Recurring patterns and buried feelings that can keep habits and symptoms in place, explored through Emotion Link and The Ultimate Exercise.
Explore emotional work →This is the thinking behind the A Life Without Pills book and app: understand the underlying factors first, and avoid interventions you may not need. Any changes to prescribed medication should always be made with your prescribing doctor. See the books and apps →
Start with the person.
Then consider the next step.
You can come to Cola Clinic for nutrition guidance or chiropractic care on its own. Emotional work is also available. Recommendations begin with your priorities; you do not need to use every service.
Chiropractic Care & Physical Treatment
Care focused on movement, joint function and mechanical stress, tailored to your needs.
Explore chiropractic care →Nutrition & Individualized Health Guidance
Individualized guidance on food choices, nutrition and lifestyle based on your concerns and health history.
Explore nutrition guidance →Emotion Link & The Ultimate Exercise
Emotion Link helps you discover the emotion. The Ultimate Exercise helps you transform it. Emotional work can be pursued on its own.
Explore emotional work →Optional Specialty: Supervised Water Fasting
An optional specialty following individual assessment, preparation, supervision and careful refeeding. It is not required for other care.
Explore supervised water fasting →Water Fasting for Health is Dr. Mark’s dedicated specialty site.
You can choose individual services without participating in every part of the clinic’s philosophy. View all current fees →
THE PHILOSOPHY · A LIFE WITHOUT PILLS
Why This Approach Is Different
Dr. Mark looks beyond symptoms to understand the patterns and practical circumstances shaping your health. Together, you identify the priorities worth addressing first and choose the services that fit your needs.
Experience should improve judgment — not create more complexity.
Dr. Mark offers chiropractic care, nutrition guidance and emotional work according to individual needs. Supervised water fasting is available as an optional specialty when appropriate.
Recommendations begin with individual priorities, practical circumstances and the next appropriate step.
Read Dr. Mark’s storyDr. Mark’s work, at your fingertips.
App companions to the clinic’s philosophy, for learning and reflection in your own time.
A Life Without Pills
The app companion to the book A Life Without Pills, with searchable nutrition, lifestyle and wellness resources for understanding your health.
Explore A Life Without Pills →
Emotion Link
Emotion Link helps identify recurring feelings, emotions and underlying beliefs. The Ultimate Exercise provides the deeper process for working through them and developing self-soothing skills.
Explore Emotion Link →
The Ultimate Exercise
Work through feelings, develop self-soothing skills and recognize hidden emotional investments.
Coming soon
The Emotion Link Series · Book One
Stop Fighting the Mosquito
By Mark D. Colafranceschi, D.C.
View on Amazon →
The Emotion Link Series · Book Two
I Know What to Do. What’s Holding Me Back?
By Mark D. Colafranceschi, D.C.
View on Amazon →
The Emotion Link Series · Book Three
Emotion Link: Reference Guide
By Mark D. Colafranceschi, D.C.
View on Amazon →
Health
A Life Without Pills
By Mark D. Colafranceschi, D.C.
View on Amazon →
Health
Water Fasting With Purpose
By Mark D. Colafranceschi, D.C.
View on Amazon →From Dr. Mark’s health library
- Back Pain — Emotional to Nutritional
- Arthritis: Causes, Inflammation and Natural Approaches
- Drug Nutrient Depletion: Medications That Deplete Nutrients
- Understanding Metabolism: How Your Body Uses Energy
- Causes of Weight Gain: What Your Body May Be Trying to Tell You
- Stages of Illness: Early Warning Signs Your Body Is Struggling
GET STARTED
Ready to Understand What's Holding Your Health Back?
Begin with a conversation about your concerns and goals. Together, we can determine whether an individualized assessment is the appropriate next step.
- 1 Ask your questions
- 2 Complete your intake
- 3 Receive individualized written recommendations
Call or text 208-315-1010. The $120 intake includes review of your health history and individualized written recommendations. Discuss appropriate follow-up and any additional costs after your review.
An initial call or text is for general questions and practical arrangements, not a diagnosis or treatment visit. Review current fees →