Three decades ago I graduated from Medical School convinced I needed to retrain myself since not one single hour of Nutrition was offered to our class. Soon after I discovered through my reading of many medical journals that the Microbiome, or bacteria in the gut is paramount in the d

If you have been reading the newsletter and blogs on this page you know we are now in the Golden Age of Nutrition. Scientists have finally come to realize what the Ancients knew very well: AS ABOVE SO BELOW. Their understanding of the Sun’s meaning in our lives and that of the planets

The Journal of the American Medical Association recently reprinted an article published in 1965. Its message is even more dramatically needed today: “The proper concern of medicine is people, not things; human life and values, not anatomy and physiology. Practitioners must be guided b

If you have been following the debate over GMOs you know that Monsanto has planted a lot of misinformation to paint detractors as charlatans. Independent studies condemning GMOs are thusly said to be “pseudoscience.” It is up to you to study the evidence on your own. Not even blogs li

The Paleo diet rages on. But, is it really good for you? It is if you like it. End of story. But, if you care to read what the journal Scientific American has to say about it stick around a little longer. The article “How to Really Eat Like a Hunter-Gatherer: Why the Paleo Diet Is Hal

When I first started practicing medicine I was somewhat “ignored” by the medical profession for applying the nutritional studies I found in the best of journals that I would-and still do-avidly read. Unfortunately, and true to the findings presented by the National Institute of Medici

Finally! After decades of arguing about the role of nutrition in mental issues we get a bit of validation. The last meeting of the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association had a presentation on “Nutritional Psychiatry!” This is such great news that I have included two qu

“Can we stop aging?” The journal Scientific America asks the question this month.[1] Many thinkers like Kurzweil[2] will answer that drugs and Transhumanistic interventions to replace organs with artificial parts is likely to stop aging altogether. Others like Steve Hawkins the physic