I invented a new term today: COVID brain. And I’m thinking that maybe you can relate… I’ve been very forgetful lately, and I haven’t been able to quite figure out why. The other day, for example, [...]
Category: Reality Health Check
When it comes to blood pressure, lower can be deadly
It won’t take long to see why this latest study grabbed my attention. Because it deals with something that I have suspected, and warned about, for quite some time. And that’s the fact that older [...]
An affordable “off-label” cure for chronic pain
Some days, I feel like I must be stuck in some sort of time loop. As you know, I’ve been practicing nutritional medicine for almost 30 years now. And as the years have passed by, I’ve seen [...]
A natural path to healthier skin
It’s easy to forget that your skin is an organ, too—the human body’s largest one, in fact. And that it’s just as susceptible to the burden of obesity as any other organ. So it’s really no [...]
Another fish oil victory falls on deaf ears
A brilliant and very large observational study about fish oil recently made some headlines. It linked regular fish oil consumption with a lower risk of cardiovascular events like stroke and heart [...]
COVID-19: Wear a mask—you could save a life
Wear a mask… you could save a life. This seems simple enough, doesn’t it? And the fact that many cities now require you to do it in order to go about business as usual—whether you’re visiting [...]
COVID-19: Was withdrawing from the WHO a foolish mistake?
As our nation gears up to celebrate another season of independence, it’s hard to imagine a more disheartening turn of events than this one: In case you haven’t heard, the United States has [...]
Battling the opioid crisis: Here’s why less is always more
COVID-19 may be the global health disaster du jour. But let’s not forget that there are still plenty of other crises on the back burner here at home. And they’re still killing Americans, whether [...]
The latest fish oil findings put EPA in the spotlight
Yes, I admit that I’m cynical by nature. (Though perhaps I’ve also just been in the business too long.) But it’s funny how, now that Big Pharma has a patented fish oil on the market, all sorts of [...]
Intermittent fasting works metabolic miracles
As you probably already know, I’m a big proponent of intermittent fasting (IF)—and I practice it myself. After all, it best reflects our evolutionary feast-or-famine hardwiring. But IF isn’t just [...]