A patient asked me the other day, What are trace minerals? With this question, I realized that I have never addressed this in my newsletters. Since we would all die without trace minerals, this may be an important topic to cover. So our first consideration is what distinguishes trace minerals from regular/macro minerals? Macro minerals […]
About a hundred years ago, we had a big problem in this country — goiter. Back then about one-third of Americans had this disease! This is one of the late-stage manifestations of iodine deficiency. What is goiter? It is a swelling of the thyroid gland in your neck just above your collarbone. While this is […]
Last week I came across an article announcing the acceptance of a new Law of Nature. I thought this was pretty exciting! It was so exciting that I copied the link to the article and sent it to my brother and sisters. A couple of days later during our weekly family Zoom call, my […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the toughest conditions I have come across is toenail fungus. Patients I have had have been fighting this for years. Some of the drugs that doctors try to prescribe for this are truly scary; very dangerous. And even with these super powerful drugs, the fungus persists. A couple of years ago my […]