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
The first step to overcoming an addiction is to own up to it. The second is to look at emotional/psychological wounds that have not healed properly. The third is to work on your microbiome and diet—they feedback on each other. The more sugar you eat, the more you mess up your microbio
Are you still addicted to soda? What else could explain drinking that poison despite the evidence outlining its toxic effects? Are you brain-washed by all the commercials pushing soda? I am reading HOW MINDS CHANGE by David McRaney. It may help you quit. So would digging deep into you
Remember the French Paradox? The benefits of wine are now being questioned. Some articles condemn it outright, stating that no amount of wine is safe. But this issue is more nuanced and grayer, rather than black and white. Enter the Microbiome—and POSTbiotics. It turns out that the ul
A while back, the New England Journal of Sugar highlighted the toxicity of refined sugars by dubbing the problem “Sweet Death.” Not too many people paid any attention, so our society has continued to sugarcoat the problem, despite mounting evidence to support the need to curtail our s
I was delighted to be invited to listen to Malila, the youngest Nobel Prize winner for her advocacy of education for girls throughout the world. Education is indeed the best way to solve the problems that bedevil any society, especially the education of the hands that rock the cradle.
Loneliness and obesity are arguably the most common sources of unhappiness. They are related: when we are lonely, we tend to fill the void with comfort food, which will give us momentary relief, only to exacerbate our angst later. More often than not, we need help to overcome these pr
