This week we have a guest author, my partner Ellen. Our weeks are spent discussing growth and learning stuff because that is our main shared interest. Ellen decided to write about some of our recent insights into how we process life. Black & White Thinking Black-and-white thinking originated in the brains of children. Yes, […]
Is stretching a good idea for us? Why would we want to do it? When is it a bad idea? Stretching has been standard advice in the physical culture world for hundreds of years. Currently, the stretching postures called asanas in yoga are all the rage. I certainly hear many glowing reports from clients […]
What do fatty liver, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, insulin resistance, obesity, high blood pressure, and gouty arthritis all have in common? Uric acid! For the last hundred years, uric acid has been largely ignored by the medical profession unless you showed up with the symptoms of gout. The classic […]
I have been interested in and researching metabolic detoxification pathways for about a month now. In the pursuit of health it is becoming increasingly clear that the modern challenge to health is primarily the buildup of toxic poisons in our body. This is pretty new for the history of human kind. Throughout most of our history […]
Over the last couple weeks I have had several patients come in complaining of muscle cramps. The locations were varied, the hand, calf, top of the thigh, arch of the foot, and of course back muscle cramps. This upturn in muscle cramping fits our current weather here in Sacramento right now – hot. We have […]
Diabesity – what’s that? Diabesity is the newly coined term for obesity + diabetes, and refers to the link between obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Since this is about the link underneath these conditions, you don’t even have to be obese to have diabesity. Does this matter to you? Half of […]
Ninety percent of adults in North America consume caffeine daily. It is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world. Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant found in over 60 different South American and Asian plants, but we are most familiar with just three sources: coffee, tea, and to a small extent, chocolate. […]