Dreams for Diagnosis

I recommend dream interpretation to my patients. The evidence for doing so is strong. Dreams have helped me with health issues, guidance through tough times, clarification of beliefs and confirmation of monumental decisions. A good start could be to join a dream club, and read CG Jung
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Are We Dead, Yet? Post-Vaccine Rants

A while back, a patient told me all those who got the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine would be dead in a year. Well, a year has passed and all of us who got the vaccine are still kicking. I wonder what that patient is saying now. I’m guessing she believes we are not out of the woods—our demise
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Pop Bad for Poop

The first step towards improving your diet Get off soda pop Artificial sweeteners linked to ‘marked effects’ on small intestinal microbiome  Healio Minute, May 12, 2023   CHICAGO — Greater consumption of artificial sweeteners, specifically those that do not contain aspartame, resulted
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Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking U.S. surgeon general declares public health epidemic to raise awareness, won’t yet unlock federal funds to combat the issue. By AMANDA SEITZ | The Associated Press; May 1st 2023 Washington (AP); Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health
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Fried, Frayed Feelings

Surely by now you have heard about the Brain-Gut connection. More details keep coming out. In an article just published, authors correctly identify fried foods as inflammatory to the brain. Unfortunately, they do not address the effect of such foods on the microbiome. When it is unbal
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Are You Addicted to Sugar?

I got a lot of grief for back in the 90s by quoting articles that at that time sounded the alarm on this wide-spread addiction. The article below has faired better. But it still falls wide of the mark: it does not bring up a powerful driver of this ubiquitous addiction: the microbiome
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Change One Funeral at a Time

See the article below. Ironically, the NIH reported on this fact over 20 years ago…     It Takes an Average of 17 Years for Evidence to Change Practice—the Burgeoning Field of Implementation Science Seeks to Speed Things Up JAMA. Published online April 5, 2023. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.4
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Laughter Is the Best Medicine

Don’t take aging too seriously Many patients come to see me in quest of the fountain of youth. This is understandable, but the search often hides a pathologic misunderstanding of life and death. Sure, we do well to eat our veggies, exercise regularly and cultivate loving relationships
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