Did you see the Bill Murray movie in which he was sentenced to repeat the same day until . . . he didn't know what. He went to bed at the end of the day, and woke up again and again the same day, Ground Hog Day. He was a grumpy reluctant reporter sent to a cold...
Baby boomers probably don't have to worry. We grew up in a different time. Maxwell Smart had his shoe phone. Mobile phones were imagined in science fiction. Today's young people cannot be surgically separated from their smart phones, it seems. Look at...
Our world is constantly clamoring for our attention: texts, phone calls, emails, advertisements. Then the kids want something from us too. Not to mention our significant other and family and friends. We can be lost in this morass of stuff, the content of our lives....
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...
Every cell in your body contains antioxidants for the purpose of preventing or delaying cell damage. As cells create energy and fulfill their specific functions, they generate molecules which oxidize other necessary molecules. Antioxidants neutralize those molecules...
Movement is fundamental to our bodies. The body is designed to move smoothly, freely and with fluidity. In addition, we are entitled to move without pain. If we have been in pain, we may have gotten sedentary. However, there are plenty of us not in pain who do...
Why is my diet and exercise program not working? When we see the stunning results from the before-and-after pictures, we want that for ourselves. We want the dramatic shrinking in girth from the new diet. We want the toned arms and rippled abs from the exercise...
Do you casually pop a pill when you have a pain or headache? Do you know what that pill can do besides relieve your pain? Whether you got your non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug for pain relief over-the-counter or if it was a prescription, the same dangers apply....
Your kidneys will not tell you when they are ailing, most often, until it is too late. A colleague tells of a patient that came in with back pain that hurt all the time; it was not better or worse with movement. In addition, his face was puffy which showed that...
“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...
