As goes California, so goes the nation. That’s why I love the Golden State: They’re almost always on the right side of the argument. And I often look to them to lead us in the right direction — [...]
Category: Reality Health Check
The morning vice that could save your life
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about coffee — and I can guarantee it won’t be the last. It’s one the most popular “vices” among my patients. So while I’m not a coffee drinker myself, I [...]
Survive this year’s Labor Day BBQ with these strategies
If you’re getting together with friends and family on Monday to celebrate the Labor Day, chances are you’re going to come face-to-face with some familiar temptations. Bags of chips…trays of [...]
Simple nutrient speeds cold recovery by three days
As summer ends, you may notice more sniffling and sneezing everywhere you go. That’s right — cold season is just about to get underway. And if the proverbial walls are closing in around you, you [...]
THIS nutrient is essential to your child’s brain development
It seems like every year, kids are going back to school earlier and earlier. And with back-to-school shopping, school physicals, and the new morning routine cutting into end-of-summer fun, it’s [...]
Start a healthy habit this Labor Day
Labor Day is a week away. It’s a day to honor the American labor movement and the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, laws and well-being of our country. So I’m [...]
Mothers and babies need good bacteria, too
Yesterday, we talked about the contributing role that bacterial diversity plays in the obesity crisis. Today I want to share a study on a similar subject… in a very different population. One [...]
The war on obesity starts with bacteria
When I first started writing about the human microbiome, I was amazed and cautiously optimistic that these incredible findings would eventually be accepted by the mainstream. And remember, I [...]
A fit brain requires regular “exercise”
Use it — in some way, every single day — or you’ll lose it. That’s the mantra to live by where most matters of your health are concerned. It’s also something that I can’t stress enough with my [...]
URGENT WARNING: Diabetes is now an “airborne” disease
As if we didn’t have enough factors contributing to the diabetes crisis in this country — Big Agribusiness, Big Pharma, plentiful and cheap junk food, poor education, lack of will power, or plain [...]