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Ultimate Body Makeover part 2

  This is a continuation from last week where I was discussing the diet portion of the makeover. Stage 1: the first seven days are designed to overcome lipotoxicity within our cells causing insulin resistance. To do this we have to force our cells to want to burn any available fats in storage for energy. […]

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Ultimate Body Makeover pt. 1

  Generally, the best advice for health-minded individuals is to engage in a lifestyle that supports their health goals over the long run. But sometimes there is a desire for the ever-loved quick fix. Everyone would like a simple and easy fix for whatever health concern they might have, but 99% of the time there […]

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Fiber or ferment?

  The big new frontier in biomedicine is the vast landscape of the microbiome. Although it only amounts to a few pounds of muck in your colon, it contains 90% of the genetic material (DNA and RNA) in your body. There are thousands of different bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live in a healthy colon. […]

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Laws of Nature

  Last week I came across an article announcing the acceptance of a new Law of Nature. I thought this was pretty exciting! It was so exciting that I copied the link to the article and sent it to my brother and sisters. A couple of days later during our weekly family Zoom call, my […]

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Great Outdoors

  As a few of you may have noticed, I was out of the office last Thursday and Friday. That is because I was up in the Washington State Cascade range with my son, Devon.  To be supportive of getting out into nature and just letting go and relaxing, I should say that we were […]

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The Edge

  In today’s newsletter, I want to discuss a powerful concept that applies to both life and health. A common description I use when talking to a patient about exercising an injured joint is to stretch the joint up to the edge of pain; not into pain but just to the edge. This simple phrase […]

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Lipotoxicity

  Boy, this sounds like a scary newsletter. The title literally says fat poisoning. From what I have been researching, it is very scary and very common. When I say common, I mean two-thirds of us probably have this. This nastiness is one of the underlying causes of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. This is […]

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Not Okay

I was listening to my sweetie, Ellen, express a feeling she was having about something coming up in her awareness that felt emotionally not okay. She didn’t know what it was but felt it tickling at the edge of her consciousness. She said that these things usually meant that life was trying to show her […]

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Fat or Sugar?

  For a couple of months now I have been researching the inflammatory properties of the fats we consume. I thought I had a pretty good handle on the subject before I started my research this time due to a dive into the subject I made about 20 years ago. Back then the exciting knowledge […]

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Thyroid

  I have been noticing a peculiar trend over the last couple of decades with patients, their temperatures are dropping. Back when I was growing up and through my schooling years the normal temperature of your average human was 98.6 degrees. This is what is still taught in school. Yet when I check patients or […]