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Holiday Stress

The holidays are in full swing, and along with that swing comes a lot of stress.  It is not a coincidence that holiday season is also cold and flu season.  This time of year takes down our immune system for many different reasons.  And most of those reasons are can be met head on and […]

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That’s not the problem

My first intention approaching this article was to go into whether gluten is as bad as the present science is showing it to be.  But as I started thinking about the subject, it became obvious that all kinds of things get put into the villain category by our science that we the public blindly accept […]

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What Does a Good Diet Look Like?

I have written loads of articles on special needs and diets that address those needs like gluten sensitivity, Small Intestinal Bacterial Overload, low glycemic diets, fasting and intermittent fasting, and so on.  But what about the average person that simply needs a healthy diet and does not have any special needs?  What kind of diet […]

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What’s Eating You?

Since this article is coming out Thanksgiving weekend – a weekend commonly spent eating more than usual – a food article seemed appropriate.  But lets turn this story around.  Let’s consider what is eating us, rather than simply what we are eating. By now we have all heard about how there are ten times as […]

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Enzymes

Enzymes make everything happen in your body.  They are like little protein robots that take things apart and puts them back together in different ways.  They manufacture everything in our body.  They also disassemble foods we eat into basic building blocks, so we can build what we need to become us. We are experiencing an […]

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What am I doing?

I see several new patients every week.  I thank all of you for those referrals as my practice is entirely created by your referrals.  I have always had a referral-based practice. I have always felt that what I do needed some sort of personal experience-based explanation, since what I do is so different from most […]

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Bloat Revisited

Few things are as frustrating to many of my patients as the mysterious abdominal bloat that comes and goes.  Bloating is one of those symptoms that is hard to quantify.  For some people it is feeling of a too full belly, for others it is abdominal distention that comes on suddenly, and for others it […]

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Safety versus Ease

Here we are the day before Halloween – a time when all the scary ghosts and goblins are set free.  More traditionally any departed souls still wandering the earth have one last chance to visit the living before being carried to the other side on All Saints Day, November 1st.  In any event the whole […]

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Flu Season

It is officially here – flu season.  I have had a few people here and they’re showing up with the occasional flu bug.  But the real flu season begins about two weeks before Halloween with the first four bags of Halloween candy that you picked up at the store.  After all, the bags have been […]

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CBDs for Pain

Everyone is familiar with the pain blocking ability of morphine, codeine, oxycodone, and the rest of the opiate-based pain medications.  As a group, they are the most widely abused drugs in America today.  But without them patients can be stuck with unbearable levels of pain.  I know when I was passing a kidney stone several […]