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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Are You a Wolf?

Are you a wolf? Very unlikely, if you have been enjoying reading these blogs and newsletters. The exhibit pictured below is found in the Modern Art Museum in Bilbao, Spain, where my maternal grandfather’s family came from. Ponder its meaning before reading below. Most people behave as
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Integrative Wine

“Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.”[1] A significant number of people are waking up to the promise of Integrative Health. They start by
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An Integrative Health New Year’s Wish

We all wish we could get along better. Respecting each other would be a good start, and a more reachable goal than loving each other. But, how do we get there? I believe respect for others is not possible, unless we develop a TOLERANT attitude. For that to occur, we need to be educate
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Personalized Medicine—The Medicine of the Future

One of the most basic problems in our health care system is treating the “average person.” This approach is “Penny wise an Pound foolish.” Fortunately, there is plenty of science ready for prime time, as soon as the generation that now controls the system dies off. Yes, that is the on
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