Last week I focused on the fundamental need for every cell in the body to have a good supply of oxygen-carrying blood. The oxygen is needed by the energy factories inside our cells (the mitochondria) to turn food (fats and sugars) into chemical energy (ATP). Today we are taking the next step and looking at […]
The world of health is vast. Entire libraries are filled with books focusing on tiny aspects of how the body works and what happens when it fails to work properly. The amount of information is truly overwhelming, and it keeps getting added to every day. If you want to get a glimpse into what I […]
In today’s newsletter, I want to discuss a powerful concept that applies to both life and health. A common description I use when talking to a patient about exercising an injured joint is to stretch the joint up to the edge of pain; not into pain but just to the edge. This simple phrase […]
I have had several patients come in recently concerned about their cholesterol levels being high. The cholesterol bogeyman has raised its head again in these Covid virus times since the biggest co-factor that contributes to poor outcomes with a bout of Covid is metabolic syndrome, and high cholesterol is often part of the metabolic […]
A patient called the office the other day asking if I had anything for memory. I told Sherry to say yes, but the answer to that question is like saying yes I have something to improve health. Memory support is a huge subject because so many different things affect memory. There is no magic pill […]
I took a neurology seminar via Zoom last week because it looked interesting and I could get 6 relicensing hour credits without having to go to some hotel in the Bay Area like I used to have to do. The class turned out to be even more interesting than I thought because most of the […]
Did you know that there are certain fats that are essential to your health? The fats are building blocks for all kinds of stuff in the body. I have written about the omega 3 fats EPA and DHA found in fish oil and how they help us fight inflammation and support brain function. But these […]
Ours is a country of extremes, and nowhere do we see this more than in our relationship to exercise. We approach exercise like so many other things – “If some is good than more must be better.” The flip-side to this extreme is the other end which says, “If I can’t have it all, then […]
Sometimes life wants me to pay attention to something, so it repeats itself in different ways. For instance last week I read an article on a breathing study done on a giraffe. That sounds strange I know, but the idea is that no one has been able to figure out how a giraffe is able […]
Antioxidants are all the buzz these days. They help control inflammation (burning) in different tissues of your body. It seems every day a new paper is published about some new antioxidant that benefits the body. This all ties in nicely with the free-radical theory of aging, which basically says that it is oxidation that causes aging. Anti-oxidants […]