Over the last couple weeks I have had several patients come in complaining of muscle cramps. The locations were varied, the hand, calf, top of the thigh, arch of the foot, and of course back muscle cramps. This upturn in muscle cramping fits our current weather here in Sacramento right now – hot. We have […]
I have been seeking the underlying motivation for dysfunctional behaviors commonly found in this culture. Why do we do things that obviously don’t work personally, inter-personally, and socially? Its not like anyone believes smoking is good for them, or that being a resistant ass is a winning social skill. Yet it seems everyone has some loosing […]
Last week Ellen and I re-watched the Joseph Campbell / Bill Moyer PBS special “The Power of Myth.” I first saw this almost 30 years ago and the basic message has stuck with me ever since. Joseph Campbell studied the cultural myths all over the world and found certain themes were common to every culture. The […]
The terror of sun exposure is a favorite topic pushed on us by our ever concerned medical establishment. Public health messages focus on the dangers of too much ultraviolet light radiation hitting our skin and causing genetic damage promoting skin cancers and accelerated aging of the skin. Yet curiously when the worldwide health damage caused […]