Crazy About Exercise—And Turmeric

The evidence for exercise is so overwhelming you would think we would all be doing it. We have known for decades about its salutary effects on our cardiovascular system. Thinking Integratively, it was predictable that evidence for its positive effects on all organs would follow. Sure
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The Growing Problem of Loneliness

That is the title of a great article you may wish to read below. I see loneliness in patients all too often. It may have serious consequences. I understand loneliness—I have experienced it many times in my life. It can affect our health in many ways. I have shared with you articles on
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Is a Gluten-Free Diet for You?

I often see patients struggling with extreme, unsustainable diets. While they may have good results losing weight quickly, they are too hard to stay on, and often “anti-social.” By the latter I mean they tend to isolate people from loved ones, friends, and work associates. This can ha
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Ibuprofen Hits Below the Belt

I have been reporting on the side effects of NSAID drugs like Ibuprofen for a while. While many patients cannot live without it, it is still prudent to consider alternatives to pain therapy, especially when these drugs have not been started. The least we could do is warn patients abou
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The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer’s Disease

That is the name of an article by Olga Kazan in The Atlantic, January 26th 2018. I attached it below because many of you live in fear of developing “All-timer’s Disease.” We have talked about processed sugars in my office several times. I hope you have eliminated them from your diet.
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Flu Fears

We understandably fear getting the flu, especially this year when mortality is high. Avoiding exposure to the virus, and getting vaccinated are recommended. Both yield mixed results. Here are a few points unfortunately left out of the discussion: “It is not the bug, it’s the terrain.”
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Are You Fatigued?

Stress has been documented to be implicated in practically all diseases. Explaining this to patients requires significant care, and time, least they think they are being told their problems “are all in their head.” The mechanism whereby stress affects all organs are its negative effec
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Bobos Will Heal Medicine

Anthropologists have noted that most societies, including our country’s, inexorably end up in the hands of business people. Icons like Lincoln, and Eisenhower have warned us that Democracies ultimately yield power to Plutocracies, or Oligarchies. The government of the people, by the p
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