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 […]
Most likely as you read this, I am somewhere in Japan adhering to a rigorous tour schedule set up by my son to make sure I see everything he wants me to see (and to try the list of 35 foods he wants me to be sure to taste.) I may need to express a […]
I have been a Chiropractor for 28 years and I have missed the big picture most of that time. I had it for a couple years back in 1990 and 91 but lost it somehow. I have been living and working under the false perspective that correcting problems will produce health. Never mind that my […]
One of my fondest memories of when I was growing up was going wild blackberry picking late in the summer in the big berry patches behind our house. We would take a long piece of lumber and drop it into the patch and then carefully walk out onto the lumber to reach the really good […]
Spring is here. Our neighbors have colored Easter Eggs scattered throughout their front hedge as a pretty reminder that the time of renewal is upon us. Most every culture has some sort of spring equinox celebration. New life abounds and the earth warms and springs forth anew. The sun is out once again (at least […]
Daylight savings is here. It is nice to have evenings in the light again. This makes it easier for me to generate the motivation to get to the gym in the evenings to work out. There is something about getting home when it is dark and raining that just doesn’t excite me to go right […]