MAYBE IF WE REALLY STRETCH THINGS WE CAN SCARE THE PUBLIC ON THE FLU. The number of annual flu deaths in the US most often thrown around is 30,000. Wow. That’s a lot of deaths! (not nearly on the magnitude of smoking, obesity and prediabetes, however). 30,000 deaths should be scary enough to get everyone […]
DOES THIS SUPPLEMENT WORK AS WELL AS A $1500/MONTH DRUG? This is not the first time that we have seen that essential fatty acids are quite potent at suppressing inflammation. In this particular study (an animal study) we see that alpha linolenic acid (the same fats found in flaxseed, walnuts, chia, salba…) helps to suppress TNF-alpha […]
Being an avid dog lover (just not really a cat person, although I would still put my car in a ditch before I’d even hit a rat on the road), I’ve always felt that there are a lot of lessons to be learned from having an animal for children. Love, compassion, loss, what to do […]
Ok, so this is the perfect example of marketing taking a good idea and messing it all completely up. Refined carbs, as I have written about many times in the past, are when you take the whole grain and lop off about 2/3 of the grain, removing 90% of the nutrients and leaving all the calories. […]
I’ve never been a terribly big fan of the diagnosis of fibromyalgia. That’s not saying that the constellation of symptoms don’t exist, but rather that they all have their respective names (gut dysfunction, HPA axis dysfunction, loss of health locus of control, etc..) and should be addressed. By lumping them all into one diagnosis and […]
