The illusion of our life is so fragile. Life itself is tough and durable, but our picture of what our life is all about is all smoke and mirrors. As each day goes by we get so wrapped up in the minutia of daily living that we actually believe that what we are having for […]
Your body manages its health through two basic mechanisms – facilitation and inhibition. Facilitation means the body makes more of something happen, while inhibition means it makes less of something happen. Facilitation adds information and activity, while inhibition subtracts or decreases information and activity. This reality is most clearly expressed in the brain. These are […]
Vitamin S – what is it? Without it your chances of heart disease, cancer and dementia go through the roof. It is vital for every man, woman, and child. Every system in your body is desperate for it, but it is something your body can not chemically manufacture on its own. Like all vitamins, it […]
Are you ever bloated? I hear it all the time from patients – “I eat a meal and a little later I look like I am 6 months pregnant!” Now I am not talking about feeling too full because you have just eaten your way through the Sunday Brunch Buffet. You’d expect to feel overly […]
Well another New Year is upon us. 2014 has ended. It has been a long year for many people. But now it is time to contemplate what we want to create for the New Year. The holidays are over and the quiet reality of 2015 is just now sinking in. Do we look forward to […]
“One of the fatal flaws of human consciousness is the desire to believe in an authority that knows right from wrong and good from bad.” – David What do you think of vaccines? Are they good or are they bad? I read articles proclaiming vaccines as the great evil destroying our children’s health, and others […]
What is the perfect diet to eat for health? People have been arguing about this one forever. It is a subject very much like religion with all the intensity of passion and conviction of belief. And just like religion, the stories that create the beliefs are just that, stories. Our parents or peers or other authority […]
If you have been a regular reader of my newsletters then you are probably aware that the underlying basis of most disease and bodily misery in our lives is too much inflammation. Inflammation is the slow fire that burns our cells and destroys our health. We have to have the ability to become inflamed in […]
Last time I talked about discriminating between what is actually known about nutrition and what is simply believed. Understandably, different beliefs will come about because people will have different personal experiences with food because of their unique genetic and metabolic makeup. If one person knows from repeated experience that eating a carb-rich meal makes their […]
Hi , The brain is pretty important, and keeping it fed is a high priority. As anyone who has ever experienced low blood sugar can tell you, not having the energy you need for your brain is disastrous. It can seem like you are having a stroke. You can lose your balance, become unfocused, your […]