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 […]
One of the common conditions I encounter among my patients is the hiatal hernia. Patients often refer to it by the most common symptom it produces, reflux, or heartburn. Both terms are descriptively correct. Stomach contents flow backward up into the esophagus food tube from the mouth. Since the stomach fluids are usually very […]
It is summer again and with Sacramento summers come lots of heat. We have been having a record-breaking heatwave this year all up and down the west coast. Glitches in the Jet Stream high up in the upper atmosphere have created a stagnant high-pressure system that stalled over the west coast for far too long. Crazy temperatures […]