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When we think about inflammation, we envision swelling, redness, and possibly bruising. We commonly imagine a joint or a wound becoming inflamed from [...]

The Many Paths to Healing Heartburn

For some people, heartburn is simply your body's revenge for an indulgent meal. For others, it can be a daily occurrence and the body's way of saying [...]

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: How Organizing and Changing Your Thoughts Will Help You Achieve the Life You Want

Thoughts support action:If you live in America today, I’m sure you have heard a variation of the above title phrase before. If you’re like most people [...]

Let The Vet Come To You

Do you get a knot in your stomach each year when the reminder card comes in the mail saying your pet is due for her annual examination? The trip to th [...]

Infertility Treatment with Acupuncture: Bringing New Lives into Yours

It's estimated that after a year of trying to conceive, 10 percent of American couples are unable to get pregnant on their own. The vast majority of w [...]

Heart Disease Prevention: Key Nutritional Supplements & Lifestyle Choices

Some risk factors for heart disease you can control and some you cannot. Coronary artery disease causes roughly 1.2 million heart attacks each year, a [...]

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Emerging Role In Acute And Chronic Illness

Positive clinical outcomes and evolving research suggest a potential adjunctive role for Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO) Therapy in the effective management o [...]

Do Environmentalists Eat Meat?

Thank goodness styrofoam cups are on their way out. After all, nothing else so quickly kills the taste of chamomile tea. But it’s the public’s percept [...]

Coffee Talk (with apologies to Linda Richman)

Disclaimer: I’m a big-time coffee drinker and have been since I was a kid. I have periodically given up the good stuff but dutifully resume my healt [...]

The Rise of Unexplained Infertility

Recently the media has become saturated with stories proclaiming the rise of “unexplained infertility” and our increasing “need” for medical [...]

Caveman Diet vs. Mediterranean Diet: Who’s Right?

When it comes to nutrition, it can get very confusing. Patients often vent their confusion to me by claiming “The information is always changing! I do [...]

Debunking The Cholesterol-Heart Disease Myth

Most everything we’ve been taught about cholesterol and heart disease is wrong. The second most commonly prescribed drug in America in 2010 was Zoc [...]

Communication From the Other Side

I often like to advertise my lectures as about PMS. Not post menopausal syndrome but about the practical, mystical and spiritual aspec [...]

Thyroid: Connecting The Dots

Patients always want to hear that weight they can’t lose is from an underactive thyroid. Weight gain is almost always due to an under active thyroid, [...]

Why Do I Feel So Dizzy?

Whenever a patient tells me they feel dizzy, I first ask them to clarify what they mean. Do they mean they feel lightheaded, like they might faint whe [...]

How to Overcome Sugar Addiction

One of the biggest roadblocks to weight loss, contributors to chronic disease and nemeses to a whole foods diet is one of the mainstays in most Americ [...]

Fibromyalgia / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome What Is It?…What To Do About It

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are poorly understood conditions for both doctors and for the public, their potential patients. There is not [...]

Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine

Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine, or TVCM, includes acupuncture, food therapy, herbal medicine, and Tui-na (a form of therapeutic massage). It [...]

Take Control Now

Never before has it been more challenging to restore and maintain one’s health. To stay fit is not only expensive but challenging as well. We are bomb [...]

Sugar: A Primary Threat To Wellness How To Combat The Damage It Causes

After years of chronic exposure to sucrose, physiological processes not unlike addiction take hold. Rapid absorption of sugars from a high-sucrose mea [...]

Weight Loss For Life…The Alkaline Way

I experienced the most significant improvements in how I feel by altering the acid/alkaline balance in my diet. I had been suffering for several years [...]

Where is the Hair on My Head Going? Part 2 Can Laser Therapy Help My Hair Grow Back?

Laser therapy has been clinically proven to help regrow hair. This pain free treatment stimulates the follicle, increases circulation (carrying nutrie [...]

Let’s Eat Out…And Lose Weight!

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to go to a “health food” restaurant in order to enjoy a high fiber, low glycemic meal for a feeling of full [...]

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