Do you worry about Alzheimer disease, AD? If you make it past 85 years of age the chances of getting this dreaded disease are fifty-fifty. Surely you would do anything to prevent it, would you not? Well, get off refined sugars! I amply documented the research on high sugar diets incre

Some of you may be struggling having lost your job; your suffering is more troublesome to me when I contemplate why our economy is so messed up. Before you read on I must warn you that I am neither Republican nor Democrat. As an Independent and as a self-professed Integrative thinker,

The fox tells the Little Prince that “What is important is invisible to the eye; only with the heart one can see clearly.” Ever since I was a child I have tried to live by that wise advice, sometimes forgetting those golden words. My first career choice was to be a Jesuit priest so th

Are you drinking 8 glasses of water a day like you have been told? I hope not. Nobody seems to know where this unfounded advice came from; yet, it is held as gospel truth, despite the increasing scarcity of water reaching a crisis point throughout the world. Thanks to sound research b

While I am not an expert on Autism or on Asperger Syndrome, I have been close enough to people with this condition that I am going to venture a few thoughts about it. When I was in Medical School we were told that it was a rare condition; about 1/2000 people seem to be affected. Today

Last month you read an editorial from a Psychiatrist opining that his field has become too pharmaceutical. A report appeared in my hometown newspaper shortly thereafter validating that point: in Utah, 1 out of 5 women are taking antidepressants, a nation-leading stat.[1] But, the plot

That is what test pilots would say before passing out due to hypoxia as they pushed their new toys up into the upper layers of the atmosphere in the dawn of aviation. Yeah, I need oxygen, too. As an integrative doctor I continue to be appalled and sometimes angered by the arrogance an

That is a question I hear every day; it is always followed by “I eat a good diet and I exercise.” What is going on with them? How is it that counting calories and working out does not help them shed unwanted pounds? If you scroll down previous blogs, you will see many emerging reasons