Every day at our clinic, people walk in thinking they are sick when in reality their body is simply doing some housekeeping. How do you know the difference?
Read MoreBy now you’re wondering what this has to do with health? Listening to people say that flowers and gardens aren’t worth the time, effort and cost sounds very much like the person who says they don’t want to take vitamins every day, don’t have the time to take a walk, can’t be bothered cooking for themselves. They avoid the necessity of tending to their health in favor of a maintenance-free lifestyle. Our health is now determined by how we choose to spend our time and our effort – tending our gardens or simply mowing the lawn.
Read MoreJust about everything in our lives has limits and health care is no exception. So it’s important to match your views and beliefs about your health with your health care choices. The sad thing is that many people do not realize or believe that they have health choices. To help you with your choices, let me lay out the good, the bad and the ugly about health care options.
Read MoreThere are more and more diseases that are simply "managed" but not resolved. Everyone has someone in their family that is suffering with symptoms that may come and go, but never truly go away. This is the bread and butter of pharmaceutical companies. Much of the research that is done, which is funded by pharmaceutical companies either directly or indirectly, is focused towards medications. This doesn't truly help us understand the why of disease.
Read MoreThe important point I would like to make about coupons is that they may save you money, they may even get you items for free, but they encourage our society to consume food and products that are not just unhealthy, they promote illness, disease and degeneration.
Read MoreI want to bring up the saturation point, a place that we never seem to reach when we are young, but somehow as the years go on, we wake up one day and find ourselves dreading watering the plants because it's just one thing too many to think about. Hopefully you have a friend, partner, family member, young cousin who could help, but when the saturation point exists within our own body, we can't just hand our symptoms off to a friend or family member. Our organs, glands, tissues and fluids have a limit in how much they can manage, how many of their functions they can accomplish and how much they can tolerate.
Read MoreMany of you will recognize this image as the rug in my Westborough office. This represents an important consideration … that if you allow something to create a problem and don’t work to resolve it, then everything that comes after is affected. Read on…
Read MoreBones are a lot more like closets in our body than they are factories that use calcium. Learn more about the real secret to bone density and integrity.
Read MoreMore and more I'm seeing people walk into my office and sit down to tell me about the bloating, gas, constipation, fatigue, headaches and stomachaches they're experiencing. My first question is always the same ... "Do you experience any pain on the right side under your ribs?", to which so many people have the same response ... "Why yes, how did you know?" I know because what they're describing are symptoms of gallbladder distress.
Read MoreIf there is one question that is on everyone’s mind, it’s about vaccines. So let me help by placing vaccinations into their proper context for you because it’s not a black and white topic of conversation.
Read MoreNow more and more it seems that both physical and mental illness reflect our lack of community, our search to replace that sense of belonging. This is a key factor in natural medicine … the idea that all of our body systems, organs and glands make up a community that works together to create life, our life.
Read MoreThat famous phrase was not just the philosophy of the Borg, it is a continual struggle in conventional medicine. Bugs are smart and the more we use a drug to treat an infection, the more adapted to the drug and therefore the more resistant a bug becomes. But natural medicine uses a different approach.
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