Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking U.S. surgeon general declares public health epidemic to raise awareness, won’t yet unlock federal funds to combat the issue. By AMANDA SEITZ | The Associated Press; May 1st 2023 Washington (AP); Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health
Surely by now you have heard about the Brain-Gut connection. More details keep coming out. In an article just published, authors correctly identify fried foods as inflammatory to the brain. Unfortunately, they do not address the effect of such foods on the microbiome. When it is unbal
I got a lot of grief for back in the 90s by quoting articles that at that time sounded the alarm on this wide-spread addiction. The article below has faired better. But it still falls wide of the mark: it does not bring up a powerful driver of this ubiquitous addiction: the microbiome
See the article below. Ironically, the NIH reported on this fact over 20 years ago… It Takes an Average of 17 Years for Evidence to Change Practice—the Burgeoning Field of Implementation Science Seeks to Speed Things Up JAMA. Published online April 5, 2023. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.4
Don’t take aging too seriously Many patients come to see me in quest of the fountain of youth. This is understandable, but the search often hides a pathologic misunderstanding of life and death. Sure, we do well to eat our veggies, exercise regularly and cultivate loving relationships
The first step to overcoming an addiction is to own up to it. The second is to look at emotional/psychological wounds that have not healed properly. The third is to work on your microbiome and diet—they feedback on each other. The more sugar you eat, the more you mess up your microbio
Are you still addicted to soda? What else could explain drinking that poison despite the evidence outlining its toxic effects? Are you brain-washed by all the commercials pushing soda? I am reading HOW MINDS CHANGE by David McRaney. It may help you quit. So would digging deep into you
Remember the French Paradox? The benefits of wine are now being questioned. Some articles condemn it outright, stating that no amount of wine is safe. But this issue is more nuanced and grayer, rather than black and white. Enter the Microbiome—and POSTbiotics. It turns out that the ul
