Every week, I get at least one phone call from a patient asking for an antibiotic prescription for a cold, a cough, a runny nose and other assorted respiratory and urinary symptoms. I have never complied with their requests. “My other doctor did it all the time!” “Sorry to hear.” I re

I have to make sense of the forest before I micromanage each tree: I suffer from the Ionian Enchantment. Back around 600 BC, greek philosophers maintained that all knowledge is linked, a concept that Dr. Wilson recently rehashed in his book CONCILIENCE. This is why I became a Generali

Annual Microbiome Issue Most people give up trying to eat healthy because of contradicting information. Take eggs. One year they are OK, but the following year they are not. I am sure you can think of many other examples. What is missing from any discussion on the best diet is the sta

  If you have been to my little office you will have noticed that literature books are a big part of the décor. Some may agree with my BBF who thinks I am just being pretentions. But there is a method to my madness: literacy has a significant impact on our health and longevity. (

As my practice and I age, I find that most of my patients worry about “Old Timers’ Disease. I address their concerns two ways: one, I recommend the book NATURAL CAUSES so they may age with wisdom, humor and grace. Two, I review the pillars of brain ageing—diet and exercise. (See first

“The pharmaceutical revolution of the 50s and 60s has petered out.”[1] Every week we see articles about some pharmaceutical recall, side effects, overpricing, research hanky-panky and other melodramas. This issue highlights a few of those problems. They do not mean that there is no va

Diseases are rooted in the gut, a fact I have highlighted my whole career. When we understand the profound ramifications, we stop hacking at the leaves and beating around the bush. Understanding this explains why disparate, seemingly incongruent issues are related. For example, long t

I am always looking for the root cause of things, particularly illness. As a scientist, I am fully aware nothing has a single cause, but our experiences in childhood loom large in the genesis of diseases. See the first two studies below. Hugo Rodier, MD Childhood abuse may cause physi