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 […]
There comes a point in the recovery process of each patient with low back pain where we have to address the stabilizer muscles of the low back. Address is a gentle way of saying we have to work those muscles and make them stronger. Most of the time it was weakness or imbalance in these […]
The purpose of life is to discover who we are and then bring who we are into harmony with life. The two halves of this journey involve very different skills. I want to focus on the second half today and offer a very simple understanding that makes harmony much simpler to achieve. The understanding involves […]
SIBO, what’s that – a new app for my phone? If only, no SIBO stands for Small Intestine Bacterial Overload, and it is becoming a serious problem for us. Last week I wrote about bloating. At the end of the article I talked about a bloating pattern that happens 3 to 4 hours after you […]
I hope you were better to your body than I was this last holiday season. I managed to skip over the first leg of the self-abuse cycle that starts at Halloween with the candy bags two weeks before Halloween that seem to have to be restocked the day before the ghosts and goblins arrived. I […]
I was up at four o’clock in the morning last Sunday in order to get my son Mason to the shuttle bus pickup point for the California International Marathon. Last March he decided he wanted to be able to run a half marathon and then three months ago he decided that he wanted to accomplish […]
A couple weeks ago I spent a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday taking a course in brain chemistry. This covered everything from basic anatomy to neurological evaluation to the impact of gut inflammation on the brain to various things that impact brain function. It was rather intensive and could easily have been offered as a 200-hour […]
About a week ago a Facebook post appeared in my email inbox from one of my patient’s Facebook page. I have no idea why it appeared as I usually only get such things from my own Facebook page, not anyone else’s. But the post was a picture of a Whole Foods shopping cart – you […]
In conversations with several patients recently it has come to my attention that most people do not really understand the nature of hypertension (high blood pressure). We have all heard that blood pressure is the “Silent Killer” and just sort of let our automatic brain file that as “high blood pressure = bad, avoid high blood […]