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 […]
You know that feeling where you gotta go and you don’t know if you are going to make it to the toilet? Or on the other side of the road, it is day three and you still have not gotten that joyful release from your colon? How about abdominal cramping and gas that doubles […]
Last weekend I went to a seminar titled Building a Better Brain. The seminar email said that it was about how to treat Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline. The lecturer was a kick-ass gal from Georgia who really knew her stuff. More importantly, she was in actual clinical practice dealing with real patients every day. This […]
Last weekend I went to a nutrition class focused on how to address nutritional causes of mental health issues. It was excellent. It took a lot of the knowledge I already had and extended it in ways I had not thought of before. Simple little strategies that anyone can do at home can make […]
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 […]
For all the following check once for “some” and twice for “a lot”. Chemical / Physiologic Stress: I over or under eat O O I have Incomplete digestion / acid indigestion O O I have vitamin / mineral deficiencies O O I have food sensitivities O O I experience sleep cycle disturbance O O I […]