I have been noticing a peculiar trend over the last couple of decades with patients, their temperatures are dropping. Back when I was growing up and through my schooling years the normal temperature of your average human was 98.6 degrees. This is what is still taught in school. Yet when I check patients or […]
I have been bumping up against this challenge in lots of folks lately. Most recently I went up to my mother’s house to help her celebrate her 93rd birthday. Her older sister, Sylvia, was there as well. I had brought up dinner and a keto angel food cake for the occasion. In the two hours […]
What is the number one complaint patients have when they go into their doctor? Tiredness. Lack of energy is the biggest complaint folks have on their routine exams. Sometimes this is due to anemia like iron poor blood or low vitamin B12 levels, which shows up on your routine blood tests. But most of […]
A couple of weeks ago I encountered a patient that had a very unusual condition, an allergy to red meat – any type of red meat. Even more interesting was that he told me that this allergy came from a tick bite. I had never heard of this before. I went home and checked it […]
The subject of depression has come up for several patients recently, so I thought it would be a good subject for a newsletter. My interest is in looking at depression from angles different than the psychiatric community as I am a holistic practitioner. Psychiatry reports that depression is exceedingly difficult to treat. One of the […]
I spent all day last Saturday and Sunday parked in front of my computer taking in a Livestream seminar on autoimmunity. I had to log in at 8:45 and didn’t finish until 5:45 each evening. The first day was all about how ugly and depressing autoimmunity is. There is no cure. There is only management […]
We had a little Octoberfest party in the court in our neighborhood this past weekend. Everybody in the neighborhood brought a pot luck dish and we all sat around in a big circle chatting while the kids rode bikes and played basketball. Phil, my across the street neighbor, has one of those commercial snow cone […]
As I started researching rejuvenation techniques associated with fasting in preparation for the booklet I am writing outlining how to rejuvenate your body, I kept running across references to plant lectins as serious disruptors of our health. The average person has heard about lectins from the books by Dr. Peter D’Adamo like “Eat Right for […]
My first intention approaching this article was to go into whether gluten is as bad as the present science is showing it to be. But as I started thinking about the subject, it became obvious that all kinds of things get put into the villain category by our science that we the public blindly accept […]
As you may have noticed, if you have been reading this newsletter for any length of time, I have an obsession with maintaining mental and physical functionality as I age. Why am I obsessed? I obsess because it is my story. I work diligently to maintain my mental and physical functionality as I age. I […]