The big new frontier in biomedicine is the vast landscape of the microbiome. Although it only amounts to a few pounds of muck in your colon, it contains 90% of the genetic material (DNA and RNA) in your body. There are thousands of different bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live in a healthy colon. […]
For a couple of years now, I have been playing with a new sweetener on the market called allulose. This is almost a magic type of sugar. It was originally discovered back in the 1940s in wheat and has since been found in figs, raisins, and jackfruit. It occurs naturally, but in minimal quantities. […]
My New Year is starting a little late this year. I went on vacation last week to Orlando and had a great time at Disney Hollywood, Epcot, Universal, and NASA. Our timing was perfect for the weather (mid 70’s with light fluffy clouds), but even more perfect for our NASA day excursion. Space X was […]
Spring is coming and I have been eyeballing the garden beds in my backyard and thinking about what I want to do this year. Last year I hardly did anything. I was just too busy with other stuff to put in the time to really prepare and plant much of a garden. I have gotten […]
Few topics are as near and dear to everyone’s heart as how to lose weight. More magazine covers are spent on this topic in the checkout line at your local grocery store than any other subject. The amazing thing is how many weight loss diets there are out there. How can there possibly be so […]
The more I research leaky gut and the development of degenerative disease conditions, the more I run into our gut microbiome as the key player in this whole problem. The pathways from things like Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, autoimmune disease, and so on keep tracing back to the gut as the starting place for these […]
Well, I am into the fourth week of the Veggie Cure protocol I wrote about back on Nov 1st. Cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mushrooms, and onions every day are needing a little variety to keep life interesting. I have been doing interesting things like stir frying the kale salad blend I bought at Costco and […]
Last week a patient asked me why I hadn’t written an article on intermittent fasting. I was amazed, because it has been a mainstay of my lifestyle for years now. I feel like I have written about it many times, but maybe I have never actually come out and named it by name. Possibly this is because I […]
I came across an interesting bit of information the other day about gorillas. Sixty to seventy per cent of their diet is leaves they can’t digest themselves. They depend on the actions of healthy gut bacteria, and because of this they live on a high fat diet. Initially this sounds like nonsense – where did the […]
Most everything the public knows about nutrition comes from the US Department of Agriculture. Those are the guys that put out the food pyramid and determine public policy that controls what is fed our kids in school and what is taught in school about nutrition. The USDA exists to protect and provide for the needs […]