For years, people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have been led to believe the condition is all in their heads. Because mainstream medicine could never pinpoint an exact cause or offer an [...]
Category: Reality Health Check
Young doctors spend more time looking at screens than at patients
Most doctors were forced into the age of electronic health records (EHRs) — for better or for worse. For the most part, I actually enjoy EHRs…although if you think my handwriting was bad before, [...]
The biggest secret in my brand new book…
My brand new book, The A-List Diet, hits the shelves in just a few weeks. So I think it’s about time to let you in on the biggest secret in the book: what the “A” in the A-list diet stands for. [...]
Are you really getting what you pay for when you buy organic?
Over the last decade, the organic food industry has exploded. It’s now valued at about $40 billion dollars a year. Since the USDA started tracking organic operations in 2002, the number of [...]
The sordid tale of “dirty money” behind healthcare policy
Oh, what a tangled web they weave … If you take nothing else away from today’s message, I hope you’ll remember this: The health industry does not exist to make you healthy. It is an industry. And [...]
Read this before you take another blood pressure pill
If you are being treated by a mainstream doctor for any condition right now, chances are good you’re being overmedicated. And if you’re being treated for high blood pressure, you are definitely [...]
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried
You’ve heard me talk about the success of the Hamptons Diet for years. So, why another diet book? A good question. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? Well, diets don’t work that way. [...]
Will this study finally convince mainstream docs to ditch carbs?
In the world of medical research, one type of study is king: the randomized, controlled clinical trial. In fact, one of the most common ways mainstream medicine “experts” like to dismiss natural [...]
Two things you can do right now to protect your brain at the molecular level
You may notice that I’ve had brains on the brain lately. I’m writing a lot about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia for a few reasons. The first is that it’s one of the biggest concerns I hear from [...]
Can technology keep your brain running at top speed?
Keeping our brains healthy and up to speed is certainly something on everyone’s mind — no pun intended. No one likes feeling like their brain is a little slower on the uptake with each passing [...]