Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.Hippocrates Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.Hippocrates All disease starts in the gut.Hippocrates Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine. He […]
It is time to bring osteoporosis back up on my patients’ radar. Are you doing what is necessary to prevent this lifestyle disease? Since 26% of women will experience severe bone loss leading to fractures, it is an important topic. While much of the basic physiology remains the same, I wish to review the recommendations […]
Every morning I make a green smoothie to start the day for Ellen and myself. We started doing this after reading Terry Wahl’s book “The Wahl’s Protocol”. Dr. Wahl was able to beat MS using paleo diet principals and functional medicine. She did all the standard medical protocols for MS and ended up a complete […]
The holidays are past and the New Year has started. It is time to clean up our act once again. Most of us indulged in fattening foods, inflammatory foods, and just plain poisonous foods sometime over the last two months. The short days have slowed down our metabolism and the toxins have built up in […]
The year 2017 has arrived. It looks like the winds of change are upon us. New times and new challenges await us in this coming year. To set the tone for the New Year I wanted to consider the deepest priority and motivator that I believe drives us in what we do. I have been […]
It is the time of year for new light, new hope, and new beginnings. Even though winter has just started, solstice has taken place and the dark begins to retreat a little more each day. Traditionally the next seven days are a time of feasting, fasting, and prayer in preparation for the welcoming in of […]
The holidays are in full swing, and along with that swing comes a lot of stress. It is not a coincidence that holiday season is also cold and flu season. This time of year takes down our immune system for many different reasons. And most of those reasons are can be met head on and […]
My first intention approaching this article was to go into whether gluten is as bad as the present science is showing it to be. But as I started thinking about the subject, it became obvious that all kinds of things get put into the villain category by our science that we the public blindly accept […]
I have written loads of articles on special needs and diets that address those needs like gluten sensitivity, Small Intestinal Bacterial Overload, low glycemic diets, fasting and intermittent fasting, and so on. But what about the average person that simply needs a healthy diet and does not have any special needs? What kind of diet […]
Since this article is coming out Thanksgiving weekend – a weekend commonly spent eating more than usual – a food article seemed appropriate. But lets turn this story around. Let’s consider what is eating us, rather than simply what we are eating. By now we have all heard about how there are ten times as […]