Life is a curious thing. People can spend their entire life striving for a particular something, and then when they finally achieve it they feel empty and incomplete. Sometimes this is on a very obvious level with things like money. A person may have a lifelong dream to become a millionaire, and then when […]
It is Christmas day about 5:30 in the evening. The table is cleared and the food put away and the last of our guests have wandered off for home. It was a good Christmas – lots of connection with loved ones. We were smart this year in that we had most of the Christmas dinner […]
Last week I spent 12 hours in front of my computer taking a continuing education class on muscle rehabilitation. Zoom is a wonderful thing in small doses, but 12 hours is a bit longer than my posterior appreciates. The essence of the class revolved around a physiologic fact that I have appreciated in the […]
The title sounds like a contradiction in terms. Ketogenic diets are associated with eating lots of fatty meats, cheeses, eggs, and nuts. Vegetarian diets, on the other hand, are associated with lots of steamed vegetables, salads, legumes, whole grains, and wheatgrass juice. On the surface, these appear to be at opposite ends of the […]
Last week I promised to reveal to you the single biggest thinking/feeling mistake that is responsible for most of the suffering in our lives. The last six newsletters have been about nutritional and physical causes behind mental health issues like depression and anxiety. The big message I wanted to get across is that very […]