8-9-98 is August 9, 1998. It is a palindrome: it reads the same forwards and backwards. It is the date of my graduation from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, AZ. This is the twentieth anniversary of that date! Twenty years ago, we...
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...
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...
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...
When hiking in July, I find it best to start early in the morning. Before sunrise. It is plenty light, then I get to see the sun illuminate the rock formations as it comes up. Starting on the Courthouse Butte trail, we see Courthouse Butte, of course, and also Bell...
Was I surprised when I found research on a treatment that I had been recommending! I have told patients to put a drop of castor oil in each eye at bedtime to help with many conditions, dry eye being one of them. I have tried it too. I learned the use of castor...
My book is now available! Amazon is selling both the paperback and the kindle edition. . . . and it is a #1 New Release in three categories! Previews You can preview the book on Amazon with the "Look inside" feature next to the book image. You can download a...
Have you thought that it is healthy to restrict sugar? Restrict fat - or only saturated fat? Restrict salt? Restrict calories? Do you live by reading labels and rejecting items with too much sugar or fat per serving? Are you on guard against something that might harm...
Do you even recognize when you are overwhelmed? Or has it become the way you operate? Are you: in the future, anticipating what has to be done? worrying about how everything can possibly be done in the time allotted? confused as to what is priority to do with the time...
The biggest compliment to me is to see me as original, fresh, and creative. In one word, innovative. Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way. Tom Freston, entertainment industry executive (in 2006 Time magazine...
