When we think about skin aging, most people immediately think of creams, serums, or cosmetic procedures. While these can certainly help, the truth is that skin aging is largely an inside-out process. Your skin is a living, metabolically active organ that reflects your nutrition, hormones, inflammation levels, hydration status, and overall cellular health. The encouraging […]
As your physician, I am often asked which interventions truly make a difference when it comes to healthy aging, metabolic balance, and long-term brain health. While new therapies and technologies receive much attention, some of the most effective tools are naturally occurring molecules already built into human physiology. One of the most compelling—and still underappreciated—of […]
What Is Autophagy? Imagine if every night, while you slept, a team of cleaners came through your home—sorting, recycling, and hauling away the junk that’s built up during the day. Inside your body, something remarkably similar happens at the cellular level. This process is called autophagy, from the Greek auto (“self”) and phagein (“to eat”)—literally, “self-eating.” While it may sound […]
DMSO is an amazing solvent with powerful anti-inflammatory actions. It can also carry other molecules through the skin down to deeper tissues, including medications. A little over a year ago, I wrote another article about my experiences using DMSO to combat joint pain. This property stimulated me to create a couple of products for the office, one […]
This newsletter had to wait until after Halloween. I didn’t want to throw shade on the joy of running door to door gathering small bundles of sugar for mass consumption later. After all, how often do we get people we hardly know to tell us how wonderful we look and reward us just for coming […]
Fat is a subject that everyone thinks they already know all about, but which in reality is a huge area of information most folks don’t know anything about. Like so many things in this world, the modern world of fat has been split into two camps – the saturated fat camp and the unsaturated fat […]
We don’t like pain. That is a good thing, we aren’t supposed to like pain. Pain is the message our body uses to tell us something is wrong. If the pain is intense then it is telling us we need to do something about this problem right now. Some sort of damage is taking […]
Fairly often I have patients come in worried about their cholesterol levels. Their medical doctor has told them that they are at serious risk of having a heart attack or stroke because their cholesterol levels are too high. I will ask them what their total cholesterol levels are and they will guiltily confess that […]
The big new frontier in biomedicine is the vast landscape of the microbiome. Although it only amounts to a few pounds of muck in your colon, it contains 90% of the genetic material (DNA and RNA) in your body. There are thousands of different bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live in a healthy colon. […]
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 […]