by admin | Apr 25, 2016 | detox, nutrition
If I were paid $100 every time someone asked me to place them on a detox, I would be a millionaire. It is as if “detoxing” has become the latest fad. But do we have an accurate understanding of what it means to “detox”? In fact yesterday, two...
by admin | Apr 20, 2016 | healthy habits, smoking cessation
Cigarette smoking is the leading avoidable cause of death worldwide. Also, it raises a person’s risk of many common chronic diseases and conditions. For example. Smokers are five times more likely to die from pneumonia Smokers have a 48% increased colon cancer risk...
by admin | Apr 6, 2016 | environmental medicine
One day while sitting in my barber’s chair, I happened to read the ingredients of an anti-inflammatory cream that he would apply to my face after shaving my beard. Needless to say, I was shocked at what I read especially since it’s a product that I had been using...
by admin | Mar 30, 2016 | health advocacy
Although increased direct access to results can be a good thing, we must not forget that there is a big difference between raw results and those interpreted by the person who ordered the test. There are thousands of laboratory tests, but we as physicians order...
by admin | Mar 30, 2016 | proactive health, testing
I had a male patient, in his 60s who refused to undergo laboratory blood testing. His exact words were that “if you go looking for problems, you will find them.” He was very dogmatic in his belief that prayer, intermittent fasting, and an organic vegetarian diet were...
