We all agree that cells communicate with each other.  This happens through receptor cell membranes the surface of which must be free of obstacles in order for communication to take place.  When there are obstacles the cell communication is altered, inhibited and even garbled.  This is known as epigenetics, the environment within which a cell functions and which affects the health of the cell without changing the genetic code.  You may be surprised to learn that the latest research has shown that as much as 75% of genetic expression is due to epigenetics while only 25% is related to the genetic hard-wired code itself. 

Histamines are essential because they stimulate inflammation, protective immunity and healing. But they also can flood the tissues so frequently that you develop an intolerance to their presence. In fact, any time you reach for an antihistamine and you feel better afterwards, you are proving that I am right about this.

When patients sit down to tell me about their history, they never mention their parents, as though their personal experience is all that influences their health.  But in fact, our health history begins further back in time then we may even know.  Jung had the right idea when he espoused the collective unconscious.  We truly are the sum total of our ancestry, not just our life experience.

When I speak of the "brain drain" I don't mean the social idea of people allowing their skills and intelligence to be enticed away from their home by promises of money and opportunity. I am talking about a much more insidious process that is happening within many of our homes. I am talking about neuroinflammation of the brain.

We are sick more often and for longer periods of time. Many of us live with chronic illness. We use our immune system every day, not just to ward off bacteria, viruses and other pathogens, but also to eliminate dead cells, worn-out body tissue and toxins that we are exposed to every day of our lives.

I have had so many patients come in to my office telling me all the things they have been diagnosed with and all the treatments they have done and they still don’t feel well. Their symptoms have still not resolved. So take a step back and consider what this means…

As far back as 1994 medical research realized that there were specific illnesses caused by organisms that had unique abilities. They were able to not just “infect” you, they could adapt to your immune system and evade your body’s attempts to resolve them. These became known as stealth pathogens and it meant that they could live in your body for very long periods of time.

Every woman that walks into the clinic has been told the same thing by their physician ... take more calcium. Particularly post-menopausal women have been programmed to think that calcium is the key to their bone health. In fact, that is far from the truth, so let’s talk about why osteopenia, osteoporosis and arthritis for that matter, seem to be in every woman’s health future. So when we talk about the bones needing lots of calcium, what exactly do the bones do with all that calcium? The answer is .... nothing.

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?

There 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.

Many 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…

More 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.

Recently I have had a number of patients come into the clinic with nerve pain, tingling, numbness and even heart palpitations.  They are certain that there is something seriously wrong, yet their doctor, their neurologist and Dr. Google all seem to be baffled as to why.  But instead of being relieved when they find out the reason for their symptoms they are actually indignant because the reason is B vitamin deficiency and the indignant part occurs because they have been getting intravenous vitamin infusions every other week for months.  So how could they be B vitamin deficient? 

Not only do you feel better drinking tea, you actually FEEL better! Let’s drink to that!

One of the things that we may not realize is that our bodies create sounds that are undetectable to our ears. These sounds are the result of vibration and movement which is inherent in every cell and essential to every tissue. It has often been described as the “singing of cells”.

In the human body there is also an inherent pattern, history, experiences and lifestyle that creates our health or lack thereof. Simply applying a prescription drug may make us feel better, may reduce the symptoms of chaos, pain and debility, but it does not create change, nor does it promote resolution. As soon as we stop, the original condition will often return, making us dependent on the drug for peace within our body.

Each day our health care system demonstrates that it views us as a machine. Emotions, thought processes, memory, even our very soul may make us a miracle, but we are still defined in mechanistic terms which simply reinforces and justifies more automation.

Many 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…

There 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.

Vomiting 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.

We 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.

Next to our Holden clinic, literally kissing the wall, is a 300 year old Sugar Maple tree. There is a crack that has formed down the trunk between two sections of the tree, but the tree has actually grown a curved section of trunk from one side of the trunk across the crack to the other side of the trunk. It has literally created a bond to hold itself together and heal the breach.

This is a characteristic that is common to all living things. Adaptation for survival and repair for longevity. This is the result of an innate living intelligence at work and this is common to all living things.

Our bodies are experiencing water shortages, and methods are being put in place to accommodate these shortages.  The shortages exist because we are failing to fully hydrate our bodies.  We are drinking iced tea, diet coke, carbonated beverages, coffee blends that would astonish Juan Valdez and expecting that they will do what water does because they each contain water.  You would be wrong.