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 […]
You are laying in bed asleep. It is about 2 in the morning and all of a sudden you are awoken by a sharp stabbing pain in your thigh or foot or maybe even in your forearm and hand. The muscles in the stabbing area are tight as can be and nothing you do seems […]
Over the last couple weeks I have had several patients come in complaining of muscle cramps. The locations were varied, the hand, calf, top of the thigh, arch of the foot, and of course back muscle cramps. This upturn in muscle cramping fits our current weather here in Sacramento right now – hot. We have […]
Salt is essential to life. It is so important that it is one of the primary tastes our tongue perceives. We are driven to acquire enough salt from our environment; for without salt, the chemical engines that give us life, stop. The sodium in salt is half of the chemical battery system every cell in […]
Two years ago I wrote a lengthy article on salt – its historical usage, its metabolism, and how much individual variability determines your salt need. Since that time I have become aware of more information about salt that has revealed to me that the saltshaker salt we add to our foods is not such a […]