What do fatty liver, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, insulin resistance, obesity, high blood pressure, and gouty arthritis all have in common? Uric acid! For the last hundred years, uric acid has been largely ignored by the medical profession unless you showed up with the symptoms of gout. The classic […]
Beginning two and one-half weeks ago Ellen and I started a fast. In this case, we were using the guidelines I created a while back for a green fast. We have been consuming nothing other than leafy greens, cauliflower, celery, jicama, avocado, coconut, olives, spices, vinegars, and powdered nutrients. The objective is to mimic […]
Life is full of so much health-destroying stress, so how can stress be helpful? Everything is telling us we need to reduce stress in order to get healthy. Well, guess what, there is such a thing as helpful stress. Not all stress is bad for us. Life is a balancing act on all levels. […]
As I am writing this, I am celebrating my 69th birthday. Today felt like a good time to solidify my thoughts on love. I have avoided using the word love in my writings or conversations for a long time. It has always seemed like the word only invites confusion as everyone seems to have a […]
Almost everybody loves sugar, but there are many different kinds of sugar. The lovely white stuff we are all familiar with is called sucrose, which is actually two other sugars hooked together — glucose and fructose. When we eat table sugar in our cakes, cookies, and candy, it is almost immediately broken down into […]
A few weeks ago our spiritual support circle was contemplating the principle of fairness in life. The principle states that life is always fair even though we might not like what we get. To me, this seemed obvious so there was little to contemplate, but the discussion from the others in the group demonstrated […]
A patient came in the other day saying that he had found a new miracle drug for inflammation – boron! He had been taking just a few milligrams a day for a week and his knee pain and restriction had completely gone away. That sounded pretty impressive to me. I knew of the importance […]
What is my most favorite food in the whole world? Sourdough bread. What have I not had for the last 15 years since I found I was gluten intolerant? Sourdough bread. Ah for the love of bread! There is nothing like a chunk of fresh hot bread slathered with real butter. Yum! But alas […]
Independence, freedom, liberty — these are the battle cries that founded this country two and a half centuries ago. Such words stir the passions and fill the imagination with images of a perfect world in which we are able to be whatever we wish to be. These words generate idealism to the point that […]
I was having a conversation with my brother the other day about my trials with my prostate over the last couple of years. Enlarged prostate is a very common issue that seems to hit men in their 60s. He was concerned since he is only 5 years younger than I. He wanted to know […]