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...

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. ...

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...

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...

Melatonin is a hormone that influences our internal body clock, helping to establish our sleep- wake cycle. It’s secreted by the pea-shaped pineal gland, located in the middle of the brain, at night. The pineal gland awakens with darkness and low blood sugar at which...

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...

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...

Oxymel is an ideal home remedy for both adults and kids for the cold and flu season. It's a mixture of honey, water and vinegar, boiled into a syrup, and can be mixed with your favorite herbs or spices. Honey and garlic have anti-microbial benefits. Garlic has...

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,...

When 51-year-old Lucinda first came to see me, she had been experiencing extreme fatigue, frequent hot flashes throughout the day and night which impacted her sleep, anxiety, lack of sex-drive, poor appetite, and weight gain for several years. She had seen other...