Best Diet and When to Eat It

There is too much complexity and micromanaging in nutritional counselling. Most patients cannot comply because of information overload or unrealistic goals. Best to keep diet simple and enjoyable. And what about intermittent fasting? It is not sustainable, but fasting from time to tim
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Downwind Update

Downwind update–a discourse on matters gaseous. That was the title of a medical article I read when I was a resident in training. It noted that the average person toots 15 times a day. I guess I am picking up someone else’s slack… But I have an excuse. I hope it applies to you,
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Covid vaccine: your money AND your life

Strained analogy, but I got your attention: read article below. Analysis: Don’t Want a Vaccine? Be Prepared to Pay More for Insurance. Kaiser Health News. Elisabeth Rosenthal and Glenn Kramon August 04, 2021 Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered at Indiana University to protest
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The new Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Long Haul COVID

First of all, the new name for CFS is Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. I know, ridiculous. The name highlights the sad tendency seen in Medicine to be satisfied naming a disease, without understanding its source or mechanism. Enter “Long Haul COVID.”
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Masks Again

You don’t need these articles to tell you it won’t hurt to mask up a little longer if you have been following the science on COVID. Too bad those who have not will churlishly continue to scream their constitutional rights are being violated. CDC says vaccinated people should return to
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“The Secret I Tell All My Patients”

Great article. Dr. McDonald, going against his infamous name, writes about the bottom line in Integrative Medicine. I hope your doctor agrees. Medscape Blogs. June 30, 2021. Alex McDonald, MD “When I meet a new patient, I often take a moment to get to know them, and I tell them about
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Microbiome and COVID

Articles about strengthening our immune system through the microbiome continue to be published. Below you will find yet another. The researchers conclude that their findings will help the pharmaceutical companies come up with a drug to fight COVID through the Microbiome. Did they thin
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Pill Pushers

I am passing along a treat article. I hope you make time to read it.   Prescription overload: More harm than good? The “polypharmacy” phenomenon sometimes is defined as taking five or more meds, as many older people do. By PAULA SPAN © 2021 The New York Times The last straw, for
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