More and more of my patients are reporting excellent results using CBDs for pain relief. Several have even reported being able to stop using their medical pain relief drugs, which is what I was hoping for. Prescription pain relief drugs are the number one form of opiate drug abuse in America with over 2.1 million […]
Most of the health issues I write about really come down to the impact of inflammation on our various body tissues. While inflammation is a vital function of the body to help us fight infection and heal from injury, too much inflammation or inflammation when it is not needed destroys our health and well being. […]
One of the delightful things we did while I was down visiting family in San Diego was to get up each morning and do a little Tai Chi/Yoga type movement. Normally I run Ellen through a whole set of exercises each morning to help with her recovery, but I rarely have the time to do […]
While I was on vacation visiting my family in San Diego, I came across a fascinating article on increasing lifespan by restricting AGEs – Advanced Glycation End Products. (Yes, its true, even on vacation I am doing research.) Why should you care? Because AGEs are what you get when you eat BBQ and bacon and […]
While I was visiting my family last weekend, I came across something I thought was impossible – a cure for bunions. I have been looking at people’s feet for 35 years and when I would see the deformation of the joints that occurs with a bunion, I would have to throw up my hands in […]
We are all trapped between these two fears. Being alone and separate feels terrible. Our most basic instinct as an infant is that being left alone equals death because we are completely dependent. We reach out for connection with our cries when we are in need. We form the belief that we are not ok […]
When I first got the idea to move to my present location, everyone who looked at the spot thought I was crazy. The building was in such bad condition that most folks thought I should just demolish the existing building and start over. I didn’t have the funds to do anything quite that ambitious, but […]
A very modern phenomenon that has become oh so popular is snacking. Until the late 1800’s consuming any food that did not require proper utensils was considered uncouth and unhygienic. Snack foods did not establish themselves until the development of modern packaging. Logos and labels that folks trusted carried the image of respectability and cleanliness. […]
Since 1980 the childhood obesity rates for children between the ages of two to nineteen have tripled. For middle-aged-kids, ages six to eleven, this rate has doubled and the teen obesity rate has quadrupled. We have an obesity epidemic in this country. This has nothing to do with genetics; the American populace has the same […]
These days poor health largely comes down to some sort of inflammatory condition in the body. Before the 1940’s the main cause of death and disease was infection, but modern sanitation and medicine have largely eliminated most of this in America allowing us to live long enough to have the inflammatory conditions catch up with […]