Is a Gluten-Free Diet for You?

I often see patients struggling with extreme, unsustainable diets. While they may have good results losing weight quickly, they are too hard to stay on, and often “anti-social.” By the latter I mean they tend to isolate people from loved ones, friends, and work associates. This can ha
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Ibuprofen Hits Below the Belt

I have been reporting on the side effects of NSAID drugs like Ibuprofen for a while. While many patients cannot live without it, it is still prudent to consider alternatives to pain therapy, especially when these drugs have not been started. The least we could do is warn patients abou
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The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer’s Disease

That is the name of an article by Olga Kazan in The Atlantic, January 26th 2018. I attached it below because many of you live in fear of developing “All-timer’s Disease.” We have talked about processed sugars in my office several times. I hope you have eliminated them from your diet.
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Flu Fears

We understandably fear getting the flu, especially this year when mortality is high. Avoiding exposure to the virus, and getting vaccinated are recommended. Both yield mixed results. Here are a few points unfortunately left out of the discussion: “It is not the bug, it’s the terrain.”
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Are You Fatigued?

Stress has been documented to be implicated in practically all diseases. Explaining this to patients requires significant care, and time, least they think they are being told their problems “are all in their head.” The mechanism whereby stress affects all organs are its negative effec
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Bobos Will Heal Medicine

Anthropologists have noted that most societies, including our country’s, inexorably end up in the hands of business people. Icons like Lincoln, and Eisenhower have warned us that Democracies ultimately yield power to Plutocracies, or Oligarchies. The government of the people, by the p
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Are You a Wolf?

Are you a wolf? Very unlikely, if you have been enjoying reading these blogs and newsletters. The exhibit pictured below is found in the Modern Art Museum in Bilbao, Spain, where my maternal grandfather’s family came from. Ponder its meaning before reading below. Most people behave as
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Integrative Wine

“Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.”[1] A significant number of people are waking up to the promise of Integrative Health. They start by
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