Processed foods do not have micronutrients to support health. This is one of the reasons why we are more prone to inflammatory changes in our body. Alzheimer’s plaques in the brain are a result of inflammation. Do you wish to lower your risk of dementia? Eat your veggies and quit refi

We can continue to spin our wheels arguing how to finance a broken health care system. But it would be better to fix it. Feeding it the right food would be a good start. I could not argue this point better than the article below. Reference Nutrition education fit for modern health sys

Big Pharma’s greed knows no limits. Not satisfied with a margin of profits over 30%, the highest of any industry, they are now resorting to shenanigans that are amazingly shameful: combining generic drugs worth a few dollars with each other and with natural things like baking soda to

Were you scared to death over the Ebola virus? How about West Nile? Or the Zika virus? Swine flu? Bird flu? How about Zantac causing cancer? Or SARS? And the flesh-eating bacteria? And now the Corona virus is coming from Wuhan, China. Did you know is not as deadly as the Flu? Each yea

“All the children are tucked in their beds Sugar-plum fairies dancing in their heads.” We got over Christmas. Have you gotten over your addiction to sugar? Refined sugars have a direct oxidative, inflammatory effect on the brain. Indirectly, they mess up our microbiome, which leads to

JAMA 1999;282:2287-2288 “As a result of rigorous scientific investigation, several therapeutic and preventive modalities currently deemed elements of complementary and alternative medicine will have proven effective. Therefore, by 2020, these interventions will have been incorporated

I am imprinted with 50’s and 60’s movies. Annie has seen me through the darkest hours of night. So has Julie Andrew’s “favorite things and then I don’t feel so bad.” If you are suffering now through the Holidays, belt out those songs as loud as you can as often as possible. Movies and

The top of Maslow’s scale of development is self-actualization. That is what I hope to develop for my patients. Too lofty a goal? Perhaps, but they say to aim for the starts. I do so by aiming for self-actualization myself. A major step in my professional life was to drop out of our t