We’re headed into the holiday season already. Can you feel it? I sure can. The rush is already upon us. Every year, I make a pledge to minimize the stress of the holiday season with mixed results. I don’t mean to stress you even more, but the health-destroying effects of long-term stress are just about … Read more
Most of us now understand that table sugar is detrimental to our health, not only to our waistlines, but in myriad other ways, including causing inflammation that leads to a host of health problems including high blood pressure and diabetes. I don’t need to go all the way down the list because I know I’m … Read more
Do you wake up feeling like you’ve never been asleep? Do you lie awake at night? Do you feel fuzzy-headed and you’re prone to headaches? Muscle aches and pains? These symptoms are part of a basket of maladies that might be chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). They could also describe hypothyroidism or adrenal fatigue. Unfortunately these … Read more
If you wake up in the morning complaining that you are as tired as when you went to sleep or you’ve gained weight and find it impossible to lose, no matter what you do or your hair is falling out or you’re feeling depressed, you just might be suffering from low thyroid function. Fatigue, weight … Read more
Thermograms are a safe, painless and radiation-free alternative to mammograms. They can also be predictive of cancer long before a tumor appears, giving a woman time to correct the problem.
Brand new gee-whiz research published in the prestigious British Medical Journal has blown the minds of conventional medical practitioners. Here’s the buzz: Calcium supplements don’t strengthen bones. End of story. Interesting. Dr. Robert Thompson and I wrote about this in The Calcium Lie, first published in 2008 and updated in 2013. It’s not a secret. … Read more
Curcumin can quite literally help you re-build failing body tissues and help you re-build your life. Creaky joints? Failing memory? Too high blood sugar? Fatty liver? Curcumin can help. I read with fascination a recent article on tissue regeneration on one of my favorite website GreenMedInfo.com. The article cites research that confirms that at least … Read more
When I sat down to write my Tuesday blog entry today, I had every intention of writing about something else, but when I saw the article about the teensy pharmaceutical company that bought the patent on a unique drug and overnight hiked the price more than 5,000% from $13.50 per pill to $750, I couldn’t … Read more
Mainstream medicine is entering the fray on GMO labeling, on the side of those of us who think we ought to have a right to know what is in our food. In an article published a couple of weeks ago in the usually stodgy New England Journal of Medicine, doctors from Harvard, Mt. Sinai Medical … Read more
About 20 years ago, I was in an Atlanta hospital for knee surgery. As I was lolling the bed, fairly buzzed with pain meds, my husband arrived for a visit carrying a McDonald’s bag. “Where did you get that?” I asked. “In the lobby.” “What??!!??” I asked, mercilessly jerked out of my reverie. Right. A … Read more