Last weekend was very busy. We moved my mother into a memory care facility. For the last several years, she has had a caretaker of some sort living with her in her home of 65 years. About 6 months ago, her doctor decided she needed 24-hour care, so we arranged for that. Her cognitive ability […]
The story of soy is long and interesting. Archaeological records show that soybeans have been cultivated for over 3,000 years. Cultivation began primarily as a way to improve soil as soy fixates nitrogen in the soil, thus acting as a sort of nitrogen fertilizer. The soy plants were also used as fodder for animals; however, […]
I was gone a few days last week camping with my older son and his family at his campsite in the Cascade mountains in eastern Washington state. “His campsite” sounds a little odd, but he bought a lot in a private “campground”. His lot is right on the Cascade River. The land is protected, which […]
Last week I had four different patients that all needed a full digestive system reset. I don’t see these very often. In fact, I think I have only seen one other person all year that needed this. But for some reason, the universe decided that now was the time for these folks to all show […]
Our body has natural built-in cycles and patterns of metabolic activity controlled by nerve cells buried deep in the brain that control the release of different hormones. This is called our circadian rhythm. It is timed to be responsive to daylight, so that our body is in sync with when the sun comes up. The […]
Humans consume about 5 million tons of cacao beans yearly. As a comparison, it ranks behind coffee at 10 million tons and tea at 7.5 million tons consumed each year as the most widely used psychoactive chemicals by us earthlings. Yes, we like feeling up and ready for action. These substances provide caffeine and similar […]
Despite my several articles on the real story about cholesterol, I still hear from many of my patients that they are taking statins to lower their cholesterol levels. Fortunately, a fix/work-around now exists to mitigate the negative consequences of taking statins. But more about that in a minute. Let’s review for a minute what cholesterol […]
Ellen’s recent surgery has got me thinking about scars. Any type of tissue damage like this is going to stimulate the formation of scar tissue, so I want to figure out how to minimize the unnecessary scar formation while still allowing for a strong closure of the involved tissues. Scars are a compromise between the […]
There is a lot of rumbling out there in the nutrition world right now as the new political administration has provided a platform for challenging a lot of old-school stories and propaganda about what constitutes healthy nutrition. One of the big shifts concerns a debate that has been going on for many years in the […]
The big hot topic out there in the world of nutrition is how modern degenerative diseases are primarily caused by our modern diet of processed and ultra-processed foods. It is estimated that an average American’s diet is 60% processed food. Our food supply is so contaminated with food chemicals that most of our foods cannot […]