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 […]