I have been railing against acid blocking drugs for decades because they interfere with proper digestion of foods. When the ones that do it 100% (PPIs) came out in the 80’s I was in Medical School. We were happy with H2 blockers (Zantac, Tagamet, Pepcid) that block acid only partially
An article in the Scientist on June 29th 2017 showed that the pesticides neonicotinoids are killing our bees. This is hardly news; we have known about this for years. I tried to bring this to the attention of the Utah Medical Association but I was told there was no way doctors would g
Do you worry about forgetting things? Do you wonder if you are getting “All-Timer’s?” Of course you do; we all do after a certain age. Hopefully you have run across the studies that show it can be prevented. That is the only rational approach to AD because the expensive drugs pushed b
I have not made much noise about our toxic environment since I retired as Chairman of the Utah Medical Association’s Environmental Committee in 2015. But, visiting with a couple of patients singularly burdened by the soup of chemicals we are all exposed to, I thought this issue needs
“The doctor of the future will be oneself.” Albert Schweitzer. My job is to help you become your own doctor, outside of serious trauma, or some unexpected health crisis. It’s really easy, once you catch on. To do this you must abandon the complexity (an illusion) of the “Trees of Heal
If you are reading this blog chances are you already possess this rare quality. It is what led you to Integrative Health, probably disappointed with the Health care system. You know that Critical Thinking has blessed your life and that of your loved ones. So, this blog cannot help you
This is an opinion posted by a doctor on Medscape April 27, 2017. I thought you may enjoy reading it. “Medicine has always been both a business and a profession. Chaucer wrote about it; so did George Bernard Shaw. Balance has always been the key. By 1985, the balance began to tip towa
“Gluten is just one variety of a common, and highly toxic, plant-based protein called lectin. Lectins are found not only in grains like wheat but also in the “gluten-free” foods most of us commonly regard as healthy, including many fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, and conventional dai
