I don’t usually pick out a specific nutrient to write about. I am more focused on health problems and how to find the underlying cause and cure them. However, I’m...
Rewriting the Low Salt Rules February is American Heart Month. Salt has been cited as a primary culprit in causing high blood pressure resulting in heart disease and other cardiovascular...
You’ve heard the hype – probably all your life. “Fat is bad for you.” Over the last six decades, the war on fat has been waged using people as the...
Phase out heart disease danger by phasing in exercising. “What fits your extremely busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead twenty four hours a day?” According...
In May 2022, a teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Irma Garcia, was shot and killed. Two days later, her husband of 23 years, Joe Garcia, visited his...
One of my patients, Carol, came to see me, after a visit to the ophthalmologist, with great fear that she was going to go blind. She was told she had...
Many years ago, a doctor friend of mine who was selling supplements told me about the benefits of turmeric on health and aging. I was told that there was nothing...
How to Add a Variety of Fruits and Vegetables to Your Diet to Protect Your Health The quarter of the population eating the fewest fruits and vegetables has over three...
In 1535, two centuries before the cure for scurvy was found in England, the French explorer Jacques Cartier saved the lives of his men who had the dreaded disease by...
The heart is just a pump, a muscle. It’s simple. It squeezes the blood inside of it and valves determine how the blood flows through it. Each time the muscle...
“THAT’S MALPRACTICE!” ...The cardiologist was yelling this to me over the phone. Tom, the cardiologist's patient, stopped taking Atorvastatin (Lipitor) because it wasn’t working. Tom initially had a stent placed...
High in fat, low carbohydrates, with adequate protein intake: this diet changes the way your body uses energy—burning fat instead of carbohydrates—which translates to a sustainable weight-loss plan and lifestyle...