I have had several patients come in recently concerned about their cholesterol levels being high. The cholesterol bogeyman has raised its head again in these Covid virus times since the biggest co-factor that contributes to poor outcomes with a bout of Covid is metabolic syndrome, and high cholesterol is often part of the metabolic […]
One of the common conditions I encounter among my patients is the hiatal hernia. Patients often refer to it by the most common symptom it produces, reflux, or heartburn. Both terms are descriptively correct. Stomach contents flow backward up into the esophagus food tube from the mouth. Since the stomach fluids are usually very […]
Recently our attention has been channeled toward the subject of increasing the amount of play in our lives. Ellen and I are both confirmed workaholics. We live to work; we love to work. For some strange reason, however, the balance in our life is demanding we also learn how to play. I have never considered myself deficient in play […]
As I am sitting here writing this, the sky is hazy and I can barely see the sun. I remember days like this when I was going to Chiropractic school down in LA in the late ’70s. The telephone pole across the street from our place was unclear due to the level of smog […]
Autophagy, what is autophagy? This word is bouncing around the internet more and more these days as something good for health, but just what is it? The word itself gives us a clue. Auto means self and phagy means eating, so self-eating. It literally means the process of eating ourselves. That sounds strange until you consider that there are no graveyards in […]
A couple of weeks ago a study was published by researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine on the results of comparing the effects of a 10-week diet high in fiber compared to a diet high in fermented vegetables. There has been a ton of research showing how the lack of fiber in the diet […]
Last week my brother sent me a link to an interview with a researcher in Hungary looking into the root causes of blood sugar issues like metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. The information was fascinating to me because it was all about hormones that were not even discovered until 1971, and never mentioned […]
Back in the middle of the night on February 15th of 2015, Ellen woke me up in distress because she suddenly could not feel the left side of her body and her vision was blurry. Half awake I asked if she meant just the left arm or leg. She replied that she couldn’t feel either and […]
A couple of weeks ago I was reading a review of a book called “The Comfort Crisis” by Michael Easter. One of the key themes of this book is an understanding of how our brain works in relation to the experience of comfort. Based on how we all act, you would think that our […]
It was my turn two weeks ago to pick a spiritual principle for our study group to focus on for our next gathering. We spend two weeks contemplating a principle then get together to share what we got from that time spent asking for insight. The principle I chose was: “We are invisible to others. […]