Ellen and I have been focusing on the subject of self-love for the last week or so. Once we get interested in a subject, we seem to attract many different perspectives from those around us on the subject of interest without asking. Sometimes it is like the world is just a big textbook, and when […]
Several times lately the resolution to a particular stress pattern within myself, and various others, has been to relax into a state of trust and belief that there is a larger plan at work. These stresses like to come up when we are confronted with things that are simply out of our control. That might […]
The holidays are here. As a care provider, I see a huge increase in stress-related health concerns. Let’s face it, the holidays are stressful. There is all the shopping for other people when you have no idea what they want or would like. Or you cheat and give out gift cards knowing that at least […]
Way back when I was in college in the early 70s, I remember hearing about students using horse liniment made from DMSO on their sports injuries and getting great results. I re-encountered DMSO while in Chiropractic school as a tool for getting medications into the body without having to use a needle. This was […]
Stress is a popular word that gets tossed around a lot these days. It gets this press because so much research has been done that says stress is the underlying cause of so much ill health. When you try to pin down just what is stress, everybody seems to have a different answer. This […]
Without a doubt the single biggest source of ill health is stress. There are tons of techniques out there for combating stress such as meditation, exercise, special breathing methods, biofeedback, EMDR, drugs, and so on. But very little is actually said about how to not get stressed in the first place. The prevailing assumption […]
Probably the most common issue I find patients complaining about besides their back pain is gut problems. This is not surprising as finding healthy foods to eat on a regular basis is getting pretty darn difficult. Even knowing what foods are healthy is becoming a mystical science. Unfortunately, the usual sources we used to […]
I am not like a normal doctor. I do not work on broken people. In fact, I go to a lot of extra effort testing and diagnosing what is going on with a new patient to determine if something is broken in some way. Because if there is something broken, I refer them out […]
I spent last weekend at an educational seminar on autoimmune disease. This was a bit different than previous seminars which focused on the endocrinology and neurology of autoimmune disorders. This seminar took things to a whole different level and looked at why autoimmune disorders happen in the first place and what we can do […]
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 […]