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 […]
A couple weeks ago my front desk person Susie was telling me about her old dog Charlie. He has been having trouble getting up and moving about. Susie wanted to know it there was anything I could do for him. I know a good Chiropractic adjustment can do wonders for an animal, but in California […]
The most common complaint I hear from patients regarding their medical doctor is that no matter how many complaints they may have, if their lab tests are normal, the doctor does nothing. We know that something is wrong when we feel bad. That is the whole point to bad feelings – to tell us that something […]
What hormone regulates your immune system and protects you from cancer, type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis? This same hormone is critical to over 2000 pathways in your body. And yet this hormone level is low in most Americans because of our lifestyle. What hormone is this – Vitamin D. We have always thought of Vitamin […]
I wanted to share with you a little field trip Ellen and I took recently to Soil Born Farms down in Rancho Cordova. This was a “get acquainted” tour for local health providers set up by Soil Born to let us know about their program and resources. Soil Born is an organic urban agriculture […]
Muscle Brain – pt.2 Most ill health begins as unconscious feeling conflicts, repression, and unresolved tensions. Since they are unconscious you do not feel them. They probably were conscious at one time, but when you encountered the conflict you did not have a resolution at that time so you shoved the feeling tension to […]
It has been a busy couple of weeks. After returning from my little expedition to Japan to attend my son Mason’s graduation from Temple University, I wanted to focus on ways to better address the many facets of preventative healthcare available through natural means. We have such a huge number of things we can do […]
Well I am glad to be back in the U S of A. Japan was a great place to visit, and quite lovely out in the distant countryside, but Tokyo was much too big a city for me. From the top of Tokyo Tower overlooking the city in all directions it looked like 25 downtown […]