I was up at four o’clock in the morning last Sunday in order to get my son Mason to the shuttle bus pickup point for the California International Marathon. Last March he decided he wanted to be able to run a half marathon and then three months ago he decided that he wanted to accomplish […]
A couple weeks ago I spent a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday taking a course in brain chemistry. This covered everything from basic anatomy to neurological evaluation to the impact of gut inflammation on the brain to various things that impact brain function. It was rather intensive and could easily have been offered as a 200-hour […]
About a week ago a Facebook post appeared in my email inbox from one of my patient’s Facebook page. I have no idea why it appeared as I usually only get such things from my own Facebook page, not anyone else’s. But the post was a picture of a Whole Foods shopping cart – you […]
“One of the fatal flaws of human consciousness is the desire to believe in an authority that knows right from wrong and good from bad.” – David What do you think of vaccines? Are they good or are they bad? I read articles proclaiming vaccines as the great evil destroying our children’s health, and others […]
What is the perfect diet to eat for health? People have been arguing about this one forever. It is a subject very much like religion with all the intensity of passion and conviction of belief. And just like religion, the stories that create the beliefs are just that, stories. Our parents or peers or other authority […]
If you have been a regular reader of my newsletters then you are probably aware that the underlying basis of most disease and bodily misery in our lives is too much inflammation. Inflammation is the slow fire that burns our cells and destroys our health. We have to have the ability to become inflamed in […]
Last time I talked about discriminating between what is actually known about nutrition and what is simply believed. Understandably, different beliefs will come about because people will have different personal experiences with food because of their unique genetic and metabolic makeup. If one person knows from repeated experience that eating a carb-rich meal makes their […]
Hi , The brain is pretty important, and keeping it fed is a high priority. As anyone who has ever experienced low blood sugar can tell you, not having the energy you need for your brain is disastrous. It can seem like you are having a stroke. You can lose your balance, become unfocused, your […]
Hi , The following is a personal perspective… You create your universe. This has been a popular mantra of the positive thinking crowd for the past 100+ years. It is a central tenant of the new thought movement popular since the turn of the last century. And like most philosophical/ spiritual systems that begin […]
Hi , One of the essentials to health that I rarely talk about is muscle strength. I have written a lot about its first cousin – balance, but not so much about simple muscle strength. I have even written about its other cousin – flexibility. But we really need all three to live the life […]