In our drug-happy society, we lose track of what it really means to be healthy. Often, we resort to drugs that may alleviate symptoms, despite side effects. They do in a pinch, but they seldom address the root cause of illness. Reference Healio Minute, August 16, 2021 Changes in diet

Just following up on the last blog Colorectal cancer begins with tiny polyps. Your gastroenterologist will be more than happy to take them out for you. You may be told that they are driven by inflammation. Inflammation from what? Our diets high in sugar and low in fiber. Those factors

Read this book. It’s a mix of history and how the Nazis contributed to the burial of science concerning sugar, metabolism, insulin resistance and all diseases, including cancer. You will read how the emphasis on the more sexy, lucrative genetic approach to cancer won over a simpler an

The best treatment for depression is to come to terms with the factors that lead to depression. However, said factors may not be known, or amenable to change or treatment. So, we need to accept other ways to deal with depression. Counselling, hypnotherapy, biofeedback, exercise, diet,

Most people have trouble losing weight. They resort to fad diets and calorie-counting with mixed results. It is likely that they have not increased activity and decreased stress. They may also have an unbalanced microbiome (see November 2021 newsletter), which compromises metabolism (

I will never forget the TV commercial showing how safe pesticides were supposed to be. It portrays a family valiantly trying to eat their picnic in their front yard as a fumigating truck drives by. Through the fumes, the actors struggle to smile and chow down. It is true that many che

By now you have lived long enough to worry about your brain backfiring and to see that new fandangle drugs for this problem don’t work. The best is prevention. See the article below. The only problems with it is that it does not mention the brain-gut connection and it makes it sound l

Literally and figuratively. Below you will find a great article on the toxic effects of air pollution on the brain. If you are polluting your body with refined sugars, we further burden our brains. Correcting these problems is not easy. A good start would be to get an electric car and