Bon appétit with healthy fats

“Hydrogenated” oils are stuffed full of hydrogen atoms and bad for your health. “Trans” fats are the result of heat and artificial hydrogenation,...

Wahls Protocol

The Wahls Diet is consistent with my long standing recommendation of following a Mediterranean type diet, emphasizing lots and lots of fruits,...

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,...

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...