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"Oh, don't worry," the doctor said in a kindly voice, "these little hot flashes will disappear on their own."
Just one of the things that angers me about the general level of medical practice. A new study addressed the common wisdom (sic)...
Thyroid – a Neolithic Disease
(This is the first part of the presentation I made to the Physicians and Ancestral Health Meeting, January 2015)
Thyroid - that little butterfly shaped gland at the base of your front neck (under the knot of...
Admittedly this sounds like a cheesy sci-fi term, but it’s your inflammasome that you can alter with diet or exercise, and thereby reduce inflammation in your body overall. Since inflammation is associated or known to be causal with almost any...
Not news to you, perhaps, but saturated fat was never the problem with our diets! Many meta-analyses, op-ed's and even popular books have detailed the misguided steps we took in 1977 when our federal nutritional guidelines steered us away from fat...
With gracious permission, I am offering the most wonderful mousse recipe, one I found on Ben Greenfield's website, at the end of a nice discussion of the ketogenic diet for athletes. Patricia Daly offered the recipe, and she credits Jasmine...
Trouble sleeping? Overactive bladder? Someone recommended a low-dose anti-depressant for chronic pain? These are three common scenarios in which people take one of the drugs classed as anti-cholinergics, a category of that acts directly on the "...
In January I was fortunate to spend three days in Scottsdale, Arizona, with a small group of physicians. We had traveled from the US, Canada, and Norway to participate in the third annual educational meeting of Physicians and Ancestral Health (PAH...
The current flu season has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and is showing signs of the severity expected when the current flu strain was identified. Unfortunately for those who received the flu vaccine, the current flu’s variety...
The first time I suggested to Stan that he might improve his obesity, diabetes, and irritable bowel by eliminating grains from his diet, he thought it over seriously. He took the suggestion home to his wife, somewhat of a gourmet chef, who...
