Did you know that gallbladder removal surgery is one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States? Every year hundreds of thousands of patients have their gallbladders removed. What’s up with that? Clearly, gallbladders are not designed to suddenly crap out and go bad, and yet our doctors believe this is happening. […]
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 […]
The title sounds like a contradiction in terms. Ketogenic diets are associated with eating lots of fatty meats, cheeses, eggs, and nuts. Vegetarian diets, on the other hand, are associated with lots of steamed vegetables, salads, legumes, whole grains, and wheatgrass juice. On the surface, these appear to be at opposite ends of the […]
What do fatigue, dizziness, irritability, insomnia, excessive sweating, poor concentration, forgetfulness, excessive thirst, depression, anxiety, aggressiveness, crying spells, mood swings, and blurred vision all have in common? They are all symptoms of blood sugar imbalances. Specialists say that poor blood sugar issues are the single biggest factor in mood disorders in patients. Back when I […]
Last week my brother sent me a link to an interview with a researcher in Hungary looking into the root causes of blood sugar issues like metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. The information was fascinating to me because it was all about hormones that were not even discovered until 1971, and never mentioned […]
Remember the old guessing game 20 questions? One of the first questions involved establishing whether the object to be guessed was animal, vegetable, or mineral. But what if it was none of those? This is the realm of fungus. This fungal realm includes molds, yeasts, mushrooms, and it involves over 3 million species. Some […]
Over the last couple of months,s I have been working on a lot of people with odd back problems. The oddity is that these back issues come on without any apparent cause. I see this normally a few times each week, but now most of the back issues I see are of this type. I […]
One of my patients asked me to write an article about the current coronavirus pandemic. I replied that this was such a new virus out in the public that I had no information about this critter. All the research has been done in top secret Biolabs, which don’t publish their findings. The commercial press has […]
The holiday eating season is officially upon us. Technically it starts with the first bag of Halloween candy we buy, but nice weather and sunny days keep us in the late summer mood so we still go out walking and enjoying the outdoors. But once the first cold wet storm hits, we stay indoors. And […]
It has been several years now since I wrote about the basic things to avoid to support a healthy diet. This is not the obvious list of poisonous chemicals that should also be avoided. For those, if you can’t pronounce it or find it growing in somebody’s garden, then don’t put it in your mouth. […]