This last week I had a couple of patients who were not doing as well as I expected on their follow-up visit. With both, I had recommended using hot and cold on the inflamed area at least once each day. They had not done this. The 110-degree days may have had something to do […]
Chronic Pain
Pain is something we are all familiar with. When something happens to our body that is immediately not good for it, we get these signals from the injured area called pain. Pain is there to warn us that we need to do something right now to prevent further injury. Furthermore, that particular pain will […]
Eating Bamboo
If you have been reading this newsletter for a while now you know that I am always looking for ways to create my favorite food items without using grains or sugars. Often I even take the next step and eliminate all carbohydrates from my diet. While eliminating carbs is not necessary for healthy people, […]
Stress
Stress is a popular word that gets tossed around a lot these days. It gets this press because so much research has been done that says stress is the underlying cause of so much ill health. When you try to pin down just what is stress, everybody seems to have a different answer. This […]
Self Care
I have written over a million words on health topics over the last 15 years as a way to share self-care tips with you, my patients. Your health is a very important topic that needs lots of self-awareness in order to produce good results. The odds are stacked hugely against us in this modern […]
Whole food
Here is an amazing statistic I heard in a podcast — 70% of the dollars spent in the US for healthcare are spent on diseases that are caused by the Standard American Diet. We are talking about type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, fatty liver, polycystic ovarian disease, […]
Tools
Ellen and I use quite a number of devices and contraptions to support our efforts at keeping well. I thought it might be good to generate a list of what we use and what we use them for to give the newsletter readers self-support options in their own lives. Most of the stuff we […]
Bile Flow
July 9, 2023 I suspect that most of you do not spend much time thinking about your bile flow. Perhaps if you have ever had gallbladder symptoms it may have crossed your mind […]
Freedom revisited
It has been seven years since I wrote about the subject of freedom. The last time was July 3rd, 2016. A lot has happened since July of 2016, so I thought I would see if my perceptions have changed since way back then. Back then Obama was still president and we were in the throws […]
Niacinamide
I was trying to come up with a topic to write about for this newsletter this morning and the subject of niacinamide kept popping up. I have no idea why that would come up other than I had just made up a fresh batch of the nutrient drink powder Ellen and I use daily […]