Annual Microbiome Issue Most people give up trying to eat healthy because of contradicting information. Take eggs. One year they are OK, but the following year they are not. I am sure you can think of many other examples. What is missing from any discussion on the best diet is the sta
If you have been to my little office you will have noticed that literature books are a big part of the décor. Some may agree with my BBF who thinks I am just being pretentions. But there is a method to my madness: literacy has a significant impact on our health and longevity. (
As my practice and I age, I find that most of my patients worry about “Old Timers’ Disease. I address their concerns two ways: one, I recommend the book NATURAL CAUSES so they may age with wisdom, humor and grace. Two, I review the pillars of brain ageing—diet and exercise. (See first
“The pharmaceutical revolution of the 50s and 60s has petered out.”[1] Every week we see articles about some pharmaceutical recall, side effects, overpricing, research hanky-panky and other melodramas. This issue highlights a few of those problems. They do not mean that there is no va
Diseases are rooted in the gut, a fact I have highlighted my whole career. When we understand the profound ramifications, we stop hacking at the leaves and beating around the bush. Understanding this explains why disparate, seemingly incongruent issues are related. For example, long t
I am always looking for the root cause of things, particularly illness. As a scientist, I am fully aware nothing has a single cause, but our experiences in childhood loom large in the genesis of diseases. See the first two studies below. Hugo Rodier, MD Childhood abuse may cause physi
Depression will soon become the number one disease in the USA, if it has not already. Sure, we all get a little blue from time to time, but a significant number of people become incapacitated by it. Some even take their lives, unable to escape the darkness that mars their lives. What
I grew up drinking Mate. My cousin Mac hated it. In those days, he was the only obese kid I knew. I regret to admit I called him Tubby. He also had red hair. Anyway, I just ran into another article saying that Mate, an herb drink, helps improve our metabolism.[1] It probably works thr
