What is the best preventative medicine? What comes first? What has the biggest impact? What has the greatest return on investment? What makes the biggest difference in our health? Dr. Mike Evans answers these questions in this video about what has the best outcomes as...
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The Who, What, When, Where, Why of Eating
Eating is a vital part of our lives. You may notice that eating is a very charged topic! We fervently defend what we want to eat. Americans seem to have opportunities to eat all the time! We eat on the run, as a business meeting, or with the whole family. We eat...
Reasons to Fast
If you were trying to lose weight, and you restricted your calories in what you ate throughout the day, sooner or later it would backfire. As every “Biggest Loser” winner has proven, you gain the weight back! This is because those winners have reduced their basal...
A Missing Piece
Trouble losing weight? Tired but you don't know why? Gas & bloating the first few hours after eating? Energy swings before and after eating? Women diagnosed with high blood ferritin without an iron overload? Diagnosed with thyroid disease or diabetes? These...
Ketosis Myths and Truths
Ketogenic diets, raspberry ketones, and all things fat-burning are all the rage. What is the truth about your metabolism and ketones? When I was in Naturopathic Medical School, the Atkins diet was making a come-back. Originally developed in the 1960's by the...
Blame it on Sugar
Blame it on Sugar "Sugar more addictive than drugs like heroin and cocaine." You've heard that, right? All our health issues are now blamed on sugar, if you believe the health gurus. Sugar is purported to be at the bottom of the obesity epidemic. And diabetes and...
Cuppa Joe – or No?
“Coffee is an amazingly potent collection of biologically active compounds,” says Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health. Naturopathic medicine uses plants with biologically active compounds as medicines. And medicines have particular uses for...
Eat Right 4 Your Type
Eat Right 4 Your Type You may have heard of this work by Dr. Peter D'Adamo. The book with that title came out in 1996. The work has been developing since then as well. The idea that blood type helps determine your susceptibility to illness and what kinds of illness...
Be Gluten-free but Don’t Buy “Gluten-free”
What do I mean by that? Gluten-free foods are not problem-free. The majority of foods which are targeted to gluten-free eating that you can find in Health Food Stores and grocery stores are not particularly healthy foods. These products that look and aim to taste like...
Lose Wheat, Lose Weight
Lose Wheat, Lose Weight When you lose wheat, you may lose: Joint stiffness and pain Acid reflux Rashes Mental fog Fatigue Poor quality sleep Food obsessions Some asthmatic symptoms Leg swelling A few points of fasting blood sugar A few pounds Frankengrain Wheat has...