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...
Naturopathic Medicine
Guide to Magnesium
It will help you calm down and relax muscles. It’s deficiency is the hidden cause of chocolate cravings. It is deficient in the soils where our food grows, so most of us are deficient unless we supplement. Have you heard this about the mineral magnesium? If there is...
Pain is NOT your enemy
FEARLESS AGING! Be bold never old! This is the message of Rico Cavegelia, as he interviews guests on his podcast Fearless Aging. He says: Fearless Aging is about why and how to live a long healthy, fit, energetic and vital life and never be OLD at any age! Rico...
Aspirin a Day?
The pharmaceutical industry is desperately trying to find some drug that everyone can take to improve their health. Right off, I'll give you the conclusion from a recent 5-year study of daily aspirin for improving health in the elderly. Aspirin use in healthy elderly...
The 1, 2, 3 of Medicine
Mainstream medicine has lost vital perspectives. It has collapsed its viewpoint to only that which is physical and can be observed and measured. The only accepted reality is the physical, and every other phenomenon attempts to be explained as being derived from the...
Evidence in Medicine
Naturopathic physicians individualize their treatments to their patients based on their training and how the patient presents. There is a contemporary doctrine in mainstream medicine of “Evidence-Based Medicine,” or EBM. This doctrine demands that medical treatments...
The Sweet Spot
Where is the sweet spot in life? Have you pondered that for your life? And, how do I get there? Or, are you there, in the sweet spot? On a tennis racket, the sweet spot is the place where you get the “most bang for your buck.” This means that the ball goes exactly...
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...
When Health Freedom Ended
“A new school of practitioner has arisen,” says Dr. Osler, “which cared nothing for homeopathy and less for so-called allopathy. It seeks to study, rationally and scientifically, the action of drugs, old and new.” The Journal of the American Medical Association, Aug...
Herbs don’t Work
Herbs do not work in the body the way that you think they do. Beyond St. John's Wort and grapefruit juice, the interactions of herbs with drugs are unpredictable and usually minimal. This is the bottom line of what I heard from Jonathan Treasure this past weekend at...