Spread of the novel coronavirus that began in late 2019 in Wuhan province of China has long turned into a global pandemic according to the World Health Organization. It was in February 2020 when the first cases where reported in California. Currently there are at...
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Men Suffer from Poor Health Seeking Behaviors
Sir, when did you last visit your doctor? The answer I get from the men I see in my practice is something like, “it’s been a long time, or I don’t remember.” The husbands, fathers, and adult sons in our lives tend to pay less attention to their health than the...
What Your Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness Tells You
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States of America and in most developed countries. This is despite routine screening and treatment of diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol that are known to cause heart disease. ...
Why Athletes should receive Prolotherapy for Sports Injuries
Prolotherapy is becoming recognized as an effective treatment for athletic related injuries and has several advantages over conventional approaches. New or old nagging injuries respond equally well to Prolotherapy. Injured ligaments of untreated joints are weaker and...
Even at Low Levels, Pesticides can Irreversibly Damage a Child’s Brain
New evidence highlights the dangers to children of even low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides (OP). Members of this family include chlorpyrifos, acephate, diazinon, diethylphosphate and malathion. The authors of the new report published October 24, 2018 by...
Is Your Air-Freshener Poisoning You?
Synthetic air fresheners invoke ideas of fresh ocean breezes, floral fields, and perfumes by the press of a finger from a can or whiff from an impregnated tree dangling from the rear-view mirror. We use them daily to negotiate common household smells like dirty...
The “Flu,” Immunizations and Naturopathic Options
It is a Nasty One this Winter Every so often we encounter a winter where influenza hits particularly hard. This is such a winter, especially for the southwestern states. In California, outpatient visits and hospitalizations for Influenza are reported as “above...
A Tale of Elevated Lead Levels
Charles is a pleasant, married, middle-aged man that works in construction; who is hands on and supervises a small team. By all accounts, he feels well now, but when we first met he suffered from ongoing fatigue, unrelenting muscle pains that couldn’t be explained,...
3 Remarkable Cardiovascular Benefits of Sauna Therapy
Yes, sitting and sweating away in a hot room has tremendous health benefits. If you’ve been avoiding your gym’s sauna; think again. Evidence shows that the benefits of sauna usage not only alleviates rheumatic pain, and helps to clear toxins from your body, but it...
New Research Shows Long Term Metformin Use Lowers B12 Levels
Drug textbooks and handbooks alike have long documented that Metformin use lowers vitamin B12 levels. Metformin is the most commonly prescribed medication for type II diabetics. It accounts for millions of prescriptions each year. Dr. Jill P. Crandall of the Albert...