As a chiropractor, I deal with patients who have arthritis pretty much every day. Some want answers, some want reasons. In most cases, we can provide both of these. Many seem to think that past trauma is a factor in developing arthritis. While this is definitely the case, it’s not the cause of most patients’ […]
Ever had a sharp, severe pain in your head? Ever had that fleeting fear that it was a stroke? Then, when you realize you were still intact, did you wonder what a stroke REALLY would feel like? I know that for me, there is an underlying fear of what they would be like. A destruction […]
No one has ever accused me of being a friend of the statin class of drugs to lower cholesterol. An entire eBook devoted to the side effects of statins and natural ways to lower cholesterol that do not involve statins pretty much cinches that. Despite all the continued evidence that statin drugs are only minimally […]
I have covered the topic of irregular heartbeats like atrial fibrillation and what you can do to fix the problem in previous articles. A visit to your cardiologist will leave you with instructions to cut caffeine intake and stress and likely a prescription for a beta blocker and maybe a blood thinner if there is […]
The cholesterol story continues, but the emphasis placed on total cholesterol is finally fading. Now the heat is up on HDL, or the “good” cholesterol. It’s almost sad that, after years and years of promoting high cholesterol as a risk factor for heart disease, the medical community has quietly backed off from this mistaken belief […]
