Call it what you like. Welcome back to my three part weight loss series, where I go over how to achieve your ideal weight while still maintaining good and healthy habits in your daily routine. Hopefully you’ve spent the last week exploring the supermarket for new flavors and aromas and exploring recipes and videos online […]
Fitness
Why are there no reunion episodes of “The Biggest Loser”?
If you are afraid of the truth, read no further. By the time you are done with this series of articles, you will realize that the solution to weight loss is not all about food. As a matter of fact food plays less of a role than you could imagine. In this series articles, I […]
Fatigue, Brain Fog, Chronic Pain: Can it be an infection?
If it’s an infection, the solution is simple, right? Antibiotics? Not so fast. We are aware now of the limitations of antibiotics for chronic bacteria and of course the fact that many chronic infections are viral and therefore would be made worse by antibiotics. Antibiotic resistant infections are on a dramatic rise, and it is […]
Want to lose weight? Change your genes.
Want to lose weight? Change your genes. No, we are not talking about manipulating your DNA in a laboratory. At least, I am not. I’m not very trusting that researchers will take into account all of the factors that 600 million years of evolution (and perhaps the hand of God) did. I know there are […]
Concussion – Some thoughts on returning to play, work, and school.
“Sport is sport, sport is NOT health” Ben Velazquez Having a practice that specializes in metabolic, immunologic, structural, and neurological health- my interest in the brain and what impacts it takes up a considerable amount of my time and attention. In addition, I have young competitive children who are becoming teenagers. It seems that kids […]
How can Greek Easter save you from Inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis?
I want to share with you the healthy rationale behind our traditional Greek Orthodox Easter feast and how it can impact inflammatory bowel disease. The inspiration for this post came from one of my guests. Growing up the son of Greek immigrants in Queens NY, it is hard to tell who in the community is […]
A little light dispels a lot of darkness
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 […]
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 […]
The Body Electric
Last week we discussed that the impact food has on our body is not purely biochemical; rather, the ultimate purpose of our food is to provide us with a supply of electrons in a high-energy state to power the energy needs of our body. We alluded to the idea that understanding what contributes to the flow […]
Do you have an energy crisis?
A major reason for the struggles we have with weight loss, obesity, chronic diseases is our repeated inability to see the problem for what it is rather than the effects of the problem. Weight gain, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, digestive issues, thyroid disease, high blood pressure, dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and autoimmunity are all symptoms and […]
