The public announcement system is calling your name as you run through the terminal with an intense sense of frustration and urgency. Your chest is pounding because you are about to miss your flight. Does this sound familiar? This scenario has played out for me on...
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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...
Are You Using Melatonin Correctly?
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...
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...
Oxymel: The Honey, Vinegar, Garlic Remedy from your Kitchen
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...
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,...