Well, here we are at the 6-month point with this Covid 19 scare. Nothing has gripped the American attention this strongly on personal levels since the threat of imminent nuclear destruction in the early 1960s. Possibly the brief hullabaloo over Y2K causing the collapse of technology-based civilization may have grabbed some people’s imagination as strongly […]
Sleep, the subject sounds like a totally boring topic. After all, everybody sleeps, no big deal, right? Everybody eats also, but how many books and articles, podcasts, and websites are dedicated to the subject of eating? Sleep is just as profound in its importance to our health. There is a ton of research on the […]
Take a deep breath in and just hold it in a relaxed manner for a while. What makes you want to exhale? Now try the opposite, exhale all the way and just hold that state at rest for a bit. What makes you want to inhale? I don’t find any thinking involved, just a strong […]
Over the last couple of months,s I have been working on a lot of people with odd back problems. The oddity is that these back issues come on without any apparent cause. I see this normally a few times each week, but now most of the back issues I see are of this type. I […]
I had two patients in a row the other day that had essentially the same question. I take this as a sign that I need to do an article on that subject. Both patients had tried to do a keto diet in the past and had gotten good results, but had been unable to keep […]
In contemplating the nature of motivation a bit of “big view” inspiration floated in the other day. I think the inspiration was triggered by a conversation I had with Ellen the day before about unconditional love. The desire for unconditional love seems to be a core motivator for lots of people. What floated in was […]
It appears we are now in the Covid 19 era. The hopes we had that this whole thing would pass away after a couple months of hyper vigilance and isolation have been dashed. After only a week of reduced restrictions the cases numbers climbed sufficiently that many restrictions were replaced. Movie theaters never did get […]
This whole coronavirus story appears to be continuing on and on. The practical question I concern myself with is how to adapt and cope with this situation. This is proving to be challenging as adapting requires having a good idea of what exactly is really happening so you know what efforts are useful and what […]
Have you ever stopped to consider diamonds? They take the light from any direction and turn it into the most beautiful sparkle of a rainbow of colors. From every angle of view, they present a myriad of shiny faces. Yet in spite of being so beautiful, they are the hardest substance on Earth. Their internal […]
A couple of weeks ago I encountered a patient that had a very unusual condition, an allergy to red meat – any type of red meat. Even more interesting was that he told me that this allergy came from a tick bite. I had never heard of this before. I went home and checked it […]