Can I tell you how many people say to me how healthy they are because they never get sick. This is not the best predictor of your health. The truth is that periodic immune challenges are essential to not only “exercise” the immune system, but to encourage adaptation to your environment and working with pathways of elimination to move toxins from the cells and out of the body.
Read MoreThere are many times when I am muscle testing patients and the issues and symptoms they are experiencing trace back to a closed head injury earlier in their life. The truth is that this type of injury, whether diagnosed as a concussion or not, can happen from sports, from a fall, from a blow to the head or from any injury such as in a car accident. But this may be only the start of the problem.
Read MoreCan we talk about headaches? I think every single person has experienced headaches, some on the rare occasion, others almost every day. Some headaches are short-lived and mild, others are intense, debilitating and can last for days. The reality of headaches is that these are a condition, not an illness. They are the expression of an issue that requires resolution, but to resolve them, you have to understand them.
Read MoreSo many people think that aging has typical symptoms that everyone can expect and will experience. Arthritis, memory loss, fatigue, digestive problems, hair loss, cancer may be what we think is unavoidable but in fact how we age and how that process unfolds is created by each of us early in our lives.
Read MoreIn Chinese philosophy there are five elements that affect us throughout our lives. The blend of these elements, both at the time of our birth and throughout the seasons of each year, will determine which organs and glands are under stress, what our temperment will be like and even what our skin will express. So it is only natural that the way you treat your skin should be based on this ancient elemental system.
Read MoreHaving an annual physical and getting annual blood testing does not tell us if we're healthy. It simply tells us that we are not noticeably ill. Often it doesn't even tell us why we have the symptoms we have. So it's really up to us.
Read MoreDon’t allow pain to stop you in your tracks. Just take the right steps and you’ll be walking for years to come … pain-free.
Read MoreVomiting may not be the most desirable of topics but it is an interesting one. Why is it that when you’re on a cruise ship having just enjoyed lobster and a glass of wine followed by a Charlotte Russe for dessert, you will inevitably come across a fellow passenger vomiting in the hallway which makes you want to discharge everything you’ve just eaten? The answer is simple - it’s an immune response.
Read MoreWhether you are talking about CoVid, asthma, shingles or fibromyalgia, more and more of us are living with chronic, unresolved illness and its symptoms. Conventional medicine offers one drug after another but symptoms return again and again. The longer this goes on, the more debilitated we become. The loss of health is causing our society to become incapable of living our lives.
Read MoreWe often think that memory is simply recalling facts, numbers, where we put the car keys. But memory is actually one of the ways in which our body restores itself and creates a healing response to injury and illness.
Read MoreTo truly face the future of illness, we have to realize the complexity of bio burdens that can weigh down our defenses and keep us from living full lives. Don’t rely on treatment, start creating stronger resistance.
Read MoreThis spring I have seen more allergies in my patients than ever before. Not just environmental allergies, particularly in people who have had none previously, but food allergies as well. You might think this is somehow related to the weather, the pollen count or stress. Many people will assume it has to do with a recent vaccination. But the truth is that it has to do with our skin.
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