One of the challenges to being a caregiver is knowing when to switch the giving flow from caring for others to caring for yourself. Self care is essential to the health and wellbeing of the caregiver. The phrase I have used for years is “If you don’t care for yourself first, you won’t have anything […]
It has been two or three years since I have written on the current information on osteoporosis. Since 26% of women will get severe bone loss leading to fractures, it is an important topic. While much of the basic physiology remains the same, the recommendations for preventing bone loss have changed. What is osteoporosis? Osteoporosis […]
About eight months ago I was doing a lot of research into creating a homemade non-dairy yogurt. I discussed my many trials and tribulations in a newsletter to you and told you about an acceptable yogurt without any dairy in it. At the end of the article I said that if I perfected the recipe, […]
Disconnection and loneliness are signs of a loss of receptivity and participation in the sensory moment. Most religions of the world understand that the fundamental core discontent deep in the heart of humans lies in his and her feelings of separation from life/God. Each religion will have it’s own metaphorical story about how we were […]
Last newsletter I wrote about taking out the trash. The trash I was talking about was the metabolic toxic waste our body is constantly producing just by being alive. Some of these wastes are so toxic that if our release of them is delayed even a few minutes, we will die. In this case I […]
Have you noticed how much effort it takes these days to stay healthy? When I was a little kid diabetes was a rare almost unheard of disease. We all knew about heart attacks, but nobody my parents or their parents knew had had one. Cancer was not even a word that was in the […]
Remember those little cartoon angles and devils that would sit on people’s shoulders whispering into their ears? The devil would sit on one side and urge the person to do all sorts of things that were “bad” and likely to get them into trouble. While the angel would sit on the other shoulder and warn […]
For many of you the best thing about the morning is that fresh cup of hot coffee. Time once was that coffee meant either coffee black or with cream and sugar. Since then coffee has become a dazzling array of flavor choices and methods of preparation. It has been a somewhat guilty pleasure as the […]
A surprisingly large number of the low back cases I see each week are because the patient’s back is simply not strong enough to support them during stressful activities. Very small percentages are due to actual injuries like slips and falls or auto accidents. About 30% are not even a back problem, but a gut […]
Jicama, sometimes referred to as Mexican turnip or yam bean, is a fascinating vegetable. It is actually the root to a legume – like a green bean. But don’t try to eat the beans on the Jicama as they are toxic. In fact the whole plant is toxic except for the inside of the […]