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. […]
It is summer again and with Sacramento summers come lots of heat. We have been having a record-breaking heatwave this year all up and down the west coast. Glitches in the Jet Stream high up in the upper atmosphere have created a stagnant high-pressure system that stalled over the west coast for far too long. Crazy temperatures […]
Remember the old guessing game 20 questions? One of the first questions involved establishing whether the object to be guessed was animal, vegetable, or mineral. But what if it was none of those? This is the realm of fungus. This fungal realm includes molds, yeasts, mushrooms, and it involves over 3 million species. Some […]
This seemingly simple little question is almost always answered wrong. Just how much should you do anything? For me, this came into sharp awareness recently while working with my sweetie Ellen while her back was seized up for a week. Essential to recovering from a seized up back is movement. Movement hurts so her natural […]
Probably the single biggest thing you can do for your health is to modify your diet. Why is that? More than anything else, what you eat impacts your insides because it literally moves into you. Everything else, except for breathing, is supposed to be kept outside your skin. Obviously, I am not counting health challenges […]
A couple of weeks ago the trade magazine Chiropractic Economics emailed me a link to a free e-book on treating arthritis. The book was 60 pages long and reviewed several approaches to dealing with arthritis. Since arthritis is certainly a common concern for many patients, I thought I would cover some of the highlights from […]
I have been having a lot of patients with knee problems lately. A few of them have had actual knee replacements. These knee replacements are pretty ugly surgeries in terms of recovery. Hip replacement surgeries seem to be a piece of cake by comparison. The knee replacements only seem to work in about half […]