Can light improve my: Thyroid? Immune system / Autoimmunity? Energy? Gut? Brain? and more? So many of my patients have specific thyroid concerns. Two weeks ago, we discussed that the thyroid is an adaptive organ and it helps us adapt to our changing environment. We expressed the fact that so much of our environment no […]
Brain Function
Expanded Definition of “Supplements”
Our definition of “supplements” is usually limited to nutritional supplements. Generally, a nutritional supplement is a product intended for ingestion that contains one or more ingredients intended to have either a supplemental effect on overall diet or perhaps a specific medicinal effect on physiology. Let’s expand our definition of supplements to include supplementing components of […]
Thyroid hormones not right? Basic truths that no one is willing to discuss.
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” – John Ruskin Most doctors, whether they are natural doctors or traditional allopathic doctors, can get stuck in the complexity of helping patients with thyroid symptoms. For […]
Antiperspirants and Alzheimer’s
We all remember the first day as teens that we realized we would need to use deodorant on a daily basis. After all, no one likes to smell bad. For most of us at that age, we chose the most colorful or best scented product we could find without giving it a second thought as […]
Everybody is talking about vitamin D. Here’s what you need to know.
There is a lot of buzz about vitamin D among doctors, lay media, and alternative health providers. Is there a real health concern here? The answer is YES. Here is what you need to know. Vitamin D is technically not a vitamin, it is a hormone made by the body. It is made from cholesterol; […]
Would you eat meat if you had cancer?
This morning, a friend of mine asked me, “If you had cancer, would you continue to eat meat?” My answer was, unequivocally, YES. Yesterday, my patient Stephanie told me that the children in her school were moving toward vegetarianism after watching the documentary film Forks Over Knives. She asked me for my thoughts on the […]
5 Solutions to Indoor Air Pollution
This series of posts is dedicated to understanding how we interface with our environment. Last week we focused on the GI tract or “gut” interface and saw how it can impact different systems in the body and cause different health problems such as leaky gut and cardiovascular disease. Last week, we said that there are […]
Bio-Hacking
Last week I gave you one simple solution to solving all of your medical and health issues: Bio-Hack. What is Bio-Hacking, and how can you use it to champion a healthy lifestyle despite a system which may not necessarily be fighting on your side? Here’s how. Top 10 conditions that will require bio-hacking yourself and […]
The Thyroid: Beyond the Immune System, part IV
This is the fourth and final installment of The Thyroid: Beyond the Immune System. Last week’s post detailed ways in which the thyroid can affect different systems in the body. This week includes an overview of potential complications that an unhealthy thyroid may pose to the body. We will conclude our series with the most […]
The Thyroid: Beyond the Immune System, part III
Welcome to part III of The Thyroid: Beyond the Immune System! Last week’s post introduced the function and mechanism of TSH, T3 and T4, and the roles they play in thyroid health. This week’s post brings us into the heart of the series. The thyroid can affect and be affected by many different systems in the body, including […]
