The most basic and important piece of nutrition you need to know is that we are made of protein, water, fat, and a few minerals. All of them are essential for our health and survival. Protein is generally the most difficult to get enough of of those four. Yes, water may be a problem in […]
This newsletter had to wait until after Halloween. I didn’t want to throw shade on the joy of running door to door gathering small bundles of sugar for mass consumption later. After all, how often do we get people we hardly know to tell us how wonderful we look and reward us just for coming […]
Fat is a subject that everyone thinks they already know all about, but which in reality is a huge area of information most folks don’t know anything about. Like so many things in this world, the modern world of fat has been split into two camps – the saturated fat camp and the unsaturated fat […]
The general question of today’s newsletter is which kind of diet works better to improve health – low- carb or low-fat. In the world of dietary modification, the most common need in America today is to lose fat weight since over two-thirds of Americans are overweight. Almost half of them are outright obese, which is […]
Frequently in these newsletters, I have described various bodily conditions and symptoms that have stress as the bottom cause behind their manifestation. Face it, too much stress messes us up. A little bit of stress is necessary to provide interest and motivation in life. However, excessive or prolonged chronic stress only breaks us down. In […]
Do you ever get that feeling that the room is spinning? You are not sure which way is up. You don’t know if your feet are where they should be. Everything is just moving around. Closing your eyes may help, but sometimes it only makes things worse. Generally, we call this vertigo. Personally, I would […]
Ellen and I have been focusing on the subject of self-love for the last week or so. Once we get interested in a subject, we seem to attract many different perspectives from those around us on the subject of interest without asking. Sometimes it is like the world is just a big textbook, and when […]
Cortisol is famously known as the stress hormone. I have listened to many lectures about the dangers of high cortisol. I have special supplements that are designed to bring down high cortisol levels. Cortisol has become one of the major alternative health boogymen to be fought on our perpetual quest for perfect health. And yet, […]
Several times lately the resolution to a particular stress pattern within myself, and various others, has been to relax into a state of trust and belief that there is a larger plan at work. These stresses like to come up when we are confronted with things that are simply out of our control. That might […]
A patient asked me the other day, What are trace minerals? With this question, I realized that I have never addressed this in my newsletters. Since we would all die without trace minerals, this may be an important topic to cover. So our first consideration is what distinguishes trace minerals from regular/macro minerals? Macro minerals […]