As most of you know if you have been reading my newsletter for any length of time, I am a big fan of the ketogenic diet lifestyle. I have been living the ketogenic lifestyle myself for the past fifteen years or so. Prior to that, I would go in and out of eating a ketogenic diet […]
Wellness Care
I attended a relicensing seminar via Zoom last weekend focused on the basic standard of care issues and how to document everything in an appropriate history and exam. One of the topics that came up repeatedly was wellness care. Both presenters were extolling the value of a wellness care type practice. This has been the […]
Health Assessment Questionnaire
Please circle the appropriate number or answer yes/no after each question below. 0 means the least/or never increasing up to 3 means most/or always See last page for how to score Brain Circulation Low brain endurance for focus and concentration 0 1 2 3 Cold hands and feet 0 1 2 3 Use exercise or […]
Love Hormone
A little over a hundred years ago a hormone was isolated from the brain that was found to cause contractions of the uterus for promoting the birthing process. Because of this function it was given the name oxytocin, from the Greek for “swift childbirth.” About 50 years later a way was found to synthesize this […]
Bands
Well, here we are finishing out our seventh month on lockdown. Being stuck at home is having some serious consequences on our health. In some ways it is like being on vacation: we don’t commute to work every day, we don’t go to the gym, we catch up on lots of Netflix or get lost […]
Bands
Here is the resistance band bar I am using to train muscles at home. And here are the extra bands I bought.
Leg Cramps
You are laying in bed asleep. It is about 2 in the morning and all of a sudden you are awoken by a sharp stabbing pain in your thigh or foot or maybe even in your forearm and hand. The muscles in the stabbing area are tight as can be and nothing you do seems […]
Obesogens
Obesogens are as nasty as they sound – obesity generators. They sound like a secret elite force of fat causing ninjas. In many ways that is exactly what they are. These are chemicals commonly found in our industrial environment that trigger our bodies to gain weight regardless of what we avoid eating or how much […]
Head Forward
Back in the old days, a head forward posture was the sign of a serious nerd or other types of bookworm or the special province of people over 60. Since the development of computers, and now even worse the cell phone, the head forward posture is a modern epidemic. Whatever posture we assume a lot […]
PUFA’s
PUFA’s, what’s that? It sounds like a new line of cuddly toys for preschoolers. What if I told you that they are the number one cause of chronic disease in America today? Now it starts to sound a little more interesting. So what are PUFA’s? This acronym stands for Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids. For practical […]