Summertime in Western Colorado offers some of the best outside adventure in the world, whether it is cycling across desert slick rock or rafting...
Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK)
MARCH Massive Hemorrhage CAT Quickclot Compressed guaze Kerlex / Coban / Israeli gauze / ETD Duct tape iTClamp Airway NP airway King airway I-Gel...
Starting the New Year with Healthy Habits
Here we go, again. New Years resolutions, goals, wishes... If you hope to improve your health, lose weight, live longer or live better, here are...
Giving Thanks
Thanksgiving is our nation’s official time for giving thanks, counting our blessings, and sharing kindness and courtesy to friends, family and even...
Get to the Root Cause with Functional Medicine
Each disease has a cause and a treatment, or so we are taught in medical school. Identify the disease then prescribe the drug or perform the...
The Integrative Medicine Approach
To integrate is to “form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified whole”. Integrative medicine blends together traditional Western...
How to Choose a Supplement
On June 19, 2002, the Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA) contained a scientific review article by R.H. Fletcher, MD, MSc, and K.M....
Anti-Microbial Soaps
With the rise of hospital and health care related infections, there has been a needed push to improve the frequency and effectiveness of hand...
Control Your Genetic Destiny with Epigenetics
Blame it on our genes — the blueprint for life that we inherit without having any say in the matter. We have been led to believe that you can’t...
NAD, Spark of Life or Playing with Fire?
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, better known as NAD, is truly the "spark of life" involved in everything from cellular energy and metabolism to...
Adventure Medical Kits
What if your routine cross-country ski jaunt turned emergent and you were stranded - would you be able to spend a night out in the mountains? Or...
Death via the Prescription Pad
Primum non nocere or “first, do no harm” is taught to all healthcare providers, so that we might always remember that in our efforts to do something...