Are you ever bloated? I hear it all the time from patients – “I eat a meal and a little later I look like I am 6 months pregnant!” Now I am not talking about feeling too full because you have just eaten your way through the Sunday Brunch Buffet. You’d expect to feel overly […]
I hope you were better to your body than I was this last holiday season. I managed to skip over the first leg of the self-abuse cycle that starts at Halloween with the candy bags two weeks before Halloween that seem to have to be restocked the day before the ghosts and goblins arrived. I […]
Well another New Year is upon us. 2014 has ended. It has been a long year for many people. But now it is time to contemplate what we want to create for the New Year. The holidays are over and the quiet reality of 2015 is just now sinking in. Do we look forward to […]
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 […]
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 […]