“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 […]
Motivation
The Systemic Benefits of Coherence
This week, I’m going to share with you how simply focusing on positive emotions and breathing for 10 minutes, twice a day for 6-8 weeks can give you skills to permanently change your life in the most meaningful ways. Here are a few examples of what this simple exercise can do: Improve memory, attention and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
How to Win Survival of the Fittest
We have made rapid changes to our environment over the past 200 years⎯most significantly over the past 20-40 years. These changes are causing our bodies to attempt to adapt. However, we are failing to adapt adequately enough, resulting in modern or “neolithic” chronic diseases that are bankrupting societies and causing a type of suffering never seen […]
Beyond food: What else impacts how you feel everyday?
It seems that the 24-hour cycle of sun plays a more significant role in our health than we have ever imagined. If you think that because you do not have insomnia, an abnormal work schedule, sleep apnea, or any other form of sleep disorder that you are safe from the effects of an altered biological […]
What happens to ADHD kids after college?
When discussing ADHD, among both the general public and healthcare professionals, you likely encounter two opinions. One can be summarized by a quote I recently saw on Facebook on the subject: “When I was a kid, ADHD was called ‘being a kid’.” The other opinion is generally held by parents with an ADHD child, or […]
