When I see a patient in my office for pain relief, what is the one most common finding I hope is not there? The answer is compression. Typically musculoskeletal back pain comes from some sort of muscle spasm or imbalance. Each of the joints in the spine, of which there are 48, can be […]
What is the most likely thing that will kill you? For Americans that would be heart disease followed by cancer. Once you take out accidents, acute infections, and suicide, the remaining seven of the top ten causes of death in the US account for 90% of deaths. The important point here is that the […]
Most of you that read this newsletter have been patients in my office at one time or another. When you come in the first thing I do is lay you down on your back and check your neck. I pull the neck bones forward gently one at a time on the right and the […]
About a month ago the blogosphere exploded with headlines about the latest government-funded attempt to classify healthful foods for Americans. This was in reference to a three-year-long multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded project by Tufts University called the Food Compass. The intent was to create a scoring system for foods based on the composition of the […]
Lately, I have been experimenting with a cyclic eating program that recognizes two of the very different needs our body has. The human body operates in cycles, like the waves of a roller coaster. Most of us have heard of our daily cycle, the circadian rhythm. And everyone is aware of the monthly cycles […]
Probably the most common issue I find patients complaining about besides their back pain is gut problems. This is not surprising as finding healthy foods to eat on a regular basis is getting pretty darn difficult. Even knowing what foods are healthy is becoming a mystical science. Unfortunately, the usual sources we used to […]
One of the challenges everyone has to face from time to time is dealing with fear. I have written many articles on the impact of stress on the body and our health. I don’t know if I have written about how to deal with the most common cause of stress, fear. Many other causes […]
I have been bumping up against this challenge in lots of folks lately. Most recently I went up to my mother’s house to help her celebrate her 93rd birthday. Her older sister, Sylvia, was there as well. I had brought up dinner and a keto angel food cake for the occasion. In the two hours […]
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Today’s article is about K2. Not the K2 that is the second highest mountain on earth nor the K2 brand of skiing and snowboarding equipment. No, the K2 I am discussing today is a vitally important vitamin that very little is known about. Research is showing us just how important this vitamin is, but […]