The Wahls Diet is consistent with my long standing recommendation of following a Mediterranean type diet, emphasizing lots and lots of fruits and...
Cholesterol Treatments
Many foods and supplements will improve lab markers that put one at risk for heart disease. Here is a list of treatments: Cholesterol, LDL...
Amino Acid Therapy
Amino acid therapy may be used to treat a variety of conditions, including Parkinson's disease, restless leg syndrome, anxiety, depression,...
Sulfur Avoidance Handout
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Glutamate Avoidance Handout
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Making Sense of Different Diets
With titles from A to Z, there are hundreds of diet plans and the media headlines are full of tips on “this diet” or “that diet”. The medical...
Garden of Health
We usually have a garden - a really big garden. It’s a lot of work, no doubt, but the rewards bring us back year after year. Somehow the magic of...
Death By Coffee
It’s 5 am and the coffee is made. Every morning, I do “coffee yoga”, that is my short yoga routine while the coffee brews. A few years ago I woke...
Tips for Creating Your Own Diet Plan
In "Making sense of different diets" I reviewed the pros and cons of 12 diet plans, from the Atkins to the Zone. Gleaning the best from each I’ll...
A Fire Burns Within
Inflammation plays a necessary role in our health, but is also the real culprit behind most diseases of aging, including heart disease, diabetes,...
Fatty Acids
Good fats, bad fats, trans fats, omega-3, omega-6, hydrogenated, unsaturated… it gets confusing trying to sort out just which fats we are supposed...