In conversations with several patients recently it has come to my attention that most people do not really understand the nature of hypertension (high blood pressure). We have all heard that blood pressure is the “Silent Killer” and just sort of let our automatic brain file that as “high blood pressure = bad, avoid high blood […]
Spring has sprung. My daffodils have come and gone already. Green stuff is popping up everywhere. If you were a hunter-gatherer, you would be eating those green things. Throughout most of human history, this time of year meant near starvation. The only things to eat were the new young shoots and any game you might […]
Last issue I talked about Alzheimer’s as fundamentally a brain inflammation disease – the best remedy for which is to not get brain inflammation in the first place. Eating only fresh, non-toxic foods, avoiding poisons, and moving most of the day will do this for you. But what do you do if it is already too […]
Happy New Year! 2010 is upon us. A new chance to start fresh with our lives. I hope your holidays were excellent; mine were. I still have one party left to attend. In another week my family is gathering to celebrate my mother’s 80th birthday – Congratulations mom. Where do the years go? Most likely […]
As we move into winter our days are getting shorter. Sunlight, the basic source of the energy for life on this planet, decreases more and more daily. We feel this loss of life right down to our bones (as our vitamin D production decreases and melatonin hormone increases.) Everywhere life is finishing its cycle and […]
Do you ever have food cravings…urges for a particular food that makes you feel better even when you are full? Have you experienced eating a favorite food only to end up hungrier than before you ate it? Do you have any foods that you really can’t imagine going days or weeks without? If you answer […]
What if I told you about a place I read about recently where a particular minority population is forced by law to work daily in labor camps without pay. They bus them in each morning and bus them out at the end of the day. They are forced to work crowded into small rooms with […]
Well I finally took the plunge. I have been edging up to it for over a year now, but I actually did it last weekend. I pulled out my trusty salad shooter and grabbed my freshly bought organic cabbage, daikon, bok choi, onion, broccoli, cucumbers, and carrots from the farmers market and went to work. […]
As most of you know, I took a 4-day play weekend to celebrate my birthday a couple weeks ago. Ellen and I hopped on a plane to San Diego to take in their famous Balboa Park. Most people know of the fabulous San Diego Zoo inside the park. What most people don’t know it that […]
Antioxidants are all the buzz these days. They help control inflammation (burning) in different tissues of your body. It seems every day a new paper is published about some new antioxidant that benefits the body. This all ties in nicely with the free-radical theory of aging, which basically says that it is oxidation that causes aging. Anti-oxidants […]