A patient asked me the other day, What are trace minerals? With this question, I realized that I have never addressed this in my newsletters. Since we would all die without trace minerals, this may be an important topic to cover. So our first consideration is what distinguishes trace minerals from regular/macro minerals? Macro minerals […]
This is a continuation from last week where I was discussing the diet portion of the makeover. Stage 1: the first seven days are designed to overcome lipotoxicity within our cells causing insulin resistance. To do this we have to force our cells to want to burn any available fats in storage for energy. […]
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 […]
Things are heating up concerning the spread of the Covid virus with the unfolding of the omicron variant. It appears to be spreading much faster than the previous variants. A few days ago the CDC reported 1 million new cases in one day. Fortunately, this variant appears to be milder than earlier versions with […]
It appears this Covid 19 virus is not going away anytime soon. Current mitigation procedures are slowing things down, but there is no mention of being able to stop the virus outright. The big hope on the horizon is for an immunization to be developed according to the government types, but that is about a […]
The latest reports on the Covid-19 spread suggest that 60 to 70% of the US population will get the infection before it is over sometime in the next 2 years. The current belief is that once enough people have gotten the infection and built up a natural immunity, only then will the spread be stopped. […]
What to eat is a hot topic. Like religion and politics, diet stirs strong reactions from people. Just like religion and politics, the strong reactions have little or nothing to do with reality and everything to do with attached feelings and agendas. To me, this is fine. Feelings and agendas are the reason for why […]
It has been two or three years since I have written on the current information on osteoporosis. Since 26% of women will get severe bone loss leading to fractures, it is an important topic. While much of the basic physiology remains the same, the recommendations for preventing bone loss have changed. What is osteoporosis? Osteoporosis […]