I’ve been working on two projects that have kept me from blogging. The first project was a lecture given at the January meeting of Physicians for Ancestral Health. The second project, still on-going, developed out of a new working relationship with Dr. Tommy Wood who I met at the PAH meeting. I will be sharing […]
I was recently interviewed by a health blogger for his podcast. The topic was chronic inflammation. Here it is. I prepared some notes for the interview. Here are the questions and answers. What made you so interested in the topic of chronic inflammation? Interest in chronic inflammation: Emerging evidence, source of most chronic disease including mental […]
What does this mean? The authors of this study looked at several important markers of health: waist circumference, fasting blood sugar, hemoglobin A1c, blood pressure, triglycerides, HDL, and whether someone was taking any medication related to these markers. They used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009-2016. Only 12.3% of US adults […]
Scott Pruitt and the EPA has approved wider use of Dow Chemical’s new pesticide “Enlist Duo”. The following is taken from the Center for Food Safety’s recent notification. “Enlist Duo is a combination of glyphosate (the main ingredient in Roundup) and 2,4-D (one of the active ingredients in “Agent Orange”). This is the first time […]
I often recommend a specific diet to decrease inflammation, decrease pain, and improve healing of tissue. I have been asked by patients to post this nutritional plan on my website so here it is (see below). In addition to this post, I will place the diet on a separate page along with recipes for vegetable […]
Meat ideally grass fed and grass finished, hormone and antibiotic free. Liver and heart are highly nutritious. Try to include some in your diet. Poultry and eggs free range, any wild game meat or poultry. OMEGA-3 rich fish-seafood (at least 16 ounces per week) Anchovies, clams, herring, mackerel, mussels, oysters, salmon, sardines, trout, calamari (squid), […]
The findings of four articles recently published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism were presented on March 5 at a press briefing held at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting, ENDO 2015, Despite the incredible public health implications of these four studies little has been reported in the popular press. I have previously discussed […]
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a non profit organization devoted to protecting the public from one of our greatest health threats, pollution in all of it’s forms. The EWG supported a study in which newborn infants were tested for known industrial and agricultural toxic chemicals. All of the infants had > 200 and some […]
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