The number one complaint patients have when they go to their primary doctor is a lack of energy. It used to be that this was the primary complaint of old people, but over the last several decades this has been a primary concern for younger and younger people. Now we hear this as a […]
For a couple of months now I have been researching the inflammatory properties of the fats we consume. I thought I had a pretty good handle on the subject before I started my research this time due to a dive into the subject I made about 20 years ago. Back then the exciting knowledge […]
You know that feeling where you gotta go and you don’t know if you are going to make it to the toilet? Or on the other side of the road, it is day three and you still have not gotten that joyful release from your colon? How about abdominal cramping and gas that doubles […]
Last weekend I went to a seminar titled Building a Better Brain. The seminar email said that it was about how to treat Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline. The lecturer was a kick-ass gal from Georgia who really knew her stuff. More importantly, she was in actual clinical practice dealing with real patients every day. This […]
For some reason a lot of my patients have been complaining of symptoms of urinary tract infections. It seems like everyone has to pee all the time and they never feel like they have completely emptied their bladders. I have not had anyone mention blood in their urine and usually they have not had the typical […]
Last week I was writing about how intimately our health is tied to the bacteria that live in our gut. I drew the picture that what we ate determined whether we had “good guy” bacteria supporting our health growing inside us or “bad guy” bacteria tearing down our health. The “good guys” like to eat soluble fibers […]
The more I research leaky gut and the development of degenerative disease conditions, the more I run into our gut microbiome as the key player in this whole problem. The pathways from things like Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, autoimmune disease, and so on keep tracing back to the gut as the starting place for these […]
Well the science is finally pouring in and the myth that saturated fat and cholesterol causes heart disease is broken. The Seven Countries’ study started by Ancel Keys way back in 1958 to promote his belief that saturated fat and dietary cholesterol caused heart disease has been disproven as simply bad science created by cherry picking […]
Do you give much thought to your teeth? When they hurt you pay them a lot of attention because of the pain, but when they are fine most of us don’t give them much thought. Think again, they are really pretty interesting. We know about their job of chewing food down into a soft mush […]
For those following the current research, it appears that having a leaky gut wall is the starting point for most of our modern degenerative illnesses. It has been said that auto-immune disease is the big disease of the 21st century. Everything from heart disease to osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s to diabetes is now being recognized as […]