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 […]
Gut & Brain Health
The Thyroid: Beyond the Immune System, part II
This week’s post will continue exploring the mystery of the thyroid. Part I of this series on thyroid health introduced the importance and function of the thyroid, as well as an explanation of how Thyroid Stimulating Hormone affects thyroid health. This week we will focus on the science of the thyroid and take an in-depth look into […]
The Thyroid: Beyond the Immune System, part I
What affects thyroid health? Are you ready to drink water out of a fire hose? That’s what it can feel like when you are learning about thyroid health. Is it possible to have a thyroid problem and have nothing wrong with your thyroid at the same time? It’s a concept that I see more often […]
Drugs: How can children make the right choices?
Last Saturday, my nearly 13 year old daughter Zoe and I took an adventure racing class (ARC) together at the Lifetime Fitness Club we belong to in Montvale, New Jersey. The ARC class is for people who are training for events like the Spartan Race. It applies principles of cross training and very High Intensity Interval […]
From raging to a trickle: The Hormone Story
Here is a question from a dear friend of over 30 years, Meredith: “I am thinking about bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), not for symptoms of menopause, which seems to be starting early for me because I can deal with that, but rather, I have a pretty significant family history of cancer and other diseases, […]
Fibromyalgia: Top 10 mistakes
Autoimmunity is overlooked or mistreated. Autoimmunity (AI) is the top of the list because it trumps everything else. When your immune system goes out of control, it launches an attack on your body’s tissue. AI has dramatically increased in developed western cultures in recent decades. Fibromyalgia is often left out of the list of autoimmune […]
Is your child at risk for autoimmunity?
At the time of birth, our newborn babies transition from a completely sterile environment in the womb into the world we live in. During the birthing process, the child is exposed to bacteria in the birth canal as well as bacteria present in the delivery room from doctors, nurses, parents, or others. The child does […]
Blood and guts
As we have already discussed in previous posts, the gut environment is largely dependent on the health of bacteria and microorganisms with which we live in harmony. Interfering with the health of this environment can lead to the immune system working against us and difficulty digesting and absorbing nutrition from our food. This is called […]
How your gut affects the environment: personal environmentalism
In my post, “Do you have the guts to get healthy,” I discussed the overall importance of gut function from a 10,000-foot view. Now, I’d like to come a bit little closer to earth and discuss how gut function impacts you. Let’s start by stating an obvious anatomical fact: Your gut (from your mouth to […]
Do you have the guts to get healthy?
Understanding your gut is going to be the subject of a series of posts, and more than likely, a book will have to follow. When referring to the gastrointestinal system or the digestive system from this point forward, I will simply refer to the collective systems and structures as the “gut.” I plan to put […]
