I was given important advice during my residency by my mentor Hans Einstein, the nephew of famed physicist Albert Einstein. He taught me to ignore the labels attached to patients. Labels like Irritable Bowel, Anxiety, Stroke, Alzheimer’s, Cerebral Palsy, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Fibromyalgia or Autism were originally intended to help researchers understand a particular […]
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Are pain management efforts actually working against people? A number of people that I see suffer from chronic pain. They have been told their pain is from damaged cartilage, bone on bone, bad discs, or that something is pressing on a nerve. The technical truth is that their pains are from uncontrolled inflammation, and surprisingly
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To grapple with the issue of whether to vaccinate your child, you should consider 3 things: (1) the need for vaccination, (2) the fear that children may change after a vaccine, and (3) the new explanation that the alteration of the child’s intestinal bacteria, not the vaccine, is the real problem. Today’s youth have grown
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Why do so many women have thyroid problems? Surprisingly, it looks like thyroid problems are closely tied to an overgrowth of intestinal bacteria. This opens up a new set of treatment options that makes one ask which problem happened first, the bad thyroid or bad bacteria? By age 65, roughly 10% of women develop low
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The Autonomic Nervous System of many women breaks during pregnancy and if left untreated the damage may linger for a lifetime; I call them “Broken Mommies”. Autonomic injury is why Broken Mommies are unable to regain their pre-pregnancy health and suffer from foggy brains and poor memory, ADD, dizziness, chronic hunger and weight gain, intestinal
Is it possible for an emotional event to have the same impact on our brain as a car wreck? Yes, it is an “emotional concussion”. You have probably heard of “dying of a broken heart”. This is when grandma dies and then grandpa (who was healthy) dies shortly afterwards of sudden heart failure. This event
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Too tired to fight with the kids over healthy food and snacks? Too tempted by tasty sugars and carbs to cut them from your diet? Let’s call your diet what it really is, it is your choice of death. Everything would be easy if we could really walk on the treadmill 30 extra minutes to
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Do you get headaches during the summer? Your summer headaches and dizziness might not be dehydration problems; they might be (reversible) mechanical blood flow problems. You need to understand core blood flow issues in order to stay healthy and safe during brutal summers in the desert. From June through September we live in constant heat
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What if you could stop lifelong insomnia and stress-filled dreams by changing your gut bacteria and balancing your nervous system? In my work to reverse cellular damage, I’ve found surprising new trigger mechanisms that disturb our sleep. It is literally the stuff dreams are made of. Insomniacs and people who suffer sleep disturbances share common
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Do you get “Food Hangovers”? Does food like pizza give you heartburn or make you feel bloated and tired after meals? Maybe you feel nauseous the next morning, have diarrhea/constipation, or your bladder isn’t working right and you have to urinate frequently during the day or you have to go during the night. Hangovers aren’t
Two totally different conditions, right? Heartburn is a mild nuisance that can be easily remedied with antacids from the store. Heart attacks are the number one killer of Americans that requires the emergency aid of skilled cardiologists to prevent death. Yet as different as they seem, their origins are deeply intertwined and understanding why is
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I meet people who tell me they are “just” pre-diabetic. They aren’t too worried because they’ll “just” start pills or insulin shots to manage things when they “get” diabetes. They don’t understand they are missing their opportunity for crisis management. Diabetes is diagnosed when the blood sugar hemoglobin A1C is 6.5 or greater. “Pre-Diabetes” is
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Are we making ourselves sick with the types of sweeteners that we drink? We understand that obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer is associated with high sugar consumption. In response, many Americans are using various sugar-substitute products in their drinks as a way to cut sugar consumption. Unfortunately, sugar substitutes have unique problems of their
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The fight against cancer begins with lowering your level of hunger. Why do some people get cancer? The answer is more complicated than just family genetics, because something turns the whole process “on”. Many of the cancers we fight today such as breast, colon, prostate, and uterine cancer are all related to a metabolic condition
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There are encouraging new findings about the cellular causes of depression which offers new hope for those who struggle with this disease. These same cellular mechanisms are also believed to be involved with bipolarism, schizophrenia, some forms of anxiety and probably PTSD. We now look at the “symptoms” of depression (low mood, fatigue, lack of
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The cells of your body are extremely complex and are composed of a variety of fatty acids that help the cells preform various functions. Fatty acids are classified into 4 groups, saturated fatty acids (SFA), monosaturated fatty acids (MUFA) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). Your body produces many fatty acids from other molecules with the
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One of the biggest problems with controlling your weight might be that you are simply too hungry. If you need a mid-afternoon snack despite having lunch, or if you are hungry an hour after eating a full dinner, you are probably experiencing abnormal hunger. I believe that an abnormal sense of hunger is often due
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Do You Have Chronic Headaches? Recurring headaches may hit us at certain times of the day (mid-morning or afternoon), when you sit still, after a meal, or for women at certain times of the month (PMS). We now know that many headaches are caused by low blood pressure and oxygen delivery to your brain. We
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I hear some version of this statement all the time: “I take vitamins and minerals because I don’t always eat right”. Unfortunately, good health is rarely found in the bottom of a pill bottle. You must be extremely careful if you take any vitamins and minerals, and remember that healthy sounding items may not always
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Gluten-free diets are hot right now, so are probiotics, fiber blends, and yogurt. People have found that these diets or products help their stomachs, intestinal tracts, skin, and overall health. What do all of these things really do for us? They change the acidity of your intestinal bacteria, but they are just the tip of
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Can you say this about your health: “I was never the same after my __________” (fill in the blank with an event). Your event might have been physical like a car wreck or childbirth. Your event might have been emotional like the death of a loved one or being really frightened. Your event might have
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I review medical histories before I meet a new patient because I like to hit the ground running. I also think if a patient takes the time to fill out a form, then I should give it my full attention. This week I read the history of a typical middle age man. He complained of
Intestinal bacteria can greatly influence your long term health, and we are seeing alarming changes in our bacterial blends. A recent study compared the composition of intestinal bacteria in modern U.S. adults with that obtained from rural African children, a Tyrolean Iceman found in a glacier, an Austrian soldier from 1918 also frozen in glacier,
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My job as a doctor is to reverse disease, not just cover it up. We have become too reliant on the quick fixes of pills, injections, and gadgets to manage the symptoms of our chronic health conditions. Those quick fixes are not working out so well for us in the long run. Despite advanced technologies,
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“Deceptive Health” is a big problem in medicine for adults and children. I often ask patients if they are healthy and they say yes, because their lab tests are normal and they sleep OK. But when I ask if they take any pills, they reveal they are on medications that manipulate their blood pressure, diabetes,
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Several years ago I began working in a busy medical clinic and I was shocked to learn how sick, as a whole, we have all become. It was startling to see children and adults who are not “well” despite having a long list of specialists and a cabinet full of medications. I met people who
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New Studies A recently published study shows that increased intake of omega-3 fatty acids (i.e., fish oil or flax seed oil) has a positive impact on memory on young adults. Previous studies have shown that omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil have a positive impact on mood and cognitive functioning as well. Omega-3 fatty acids
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This is the first of Dr. Nemechek’s eight talks that comprise his 2012 “Wellness Through Science” lecture series. In it, he discusses the false premise of modern corporate wellness, the weak health benefits of many common medications and outlines how metabolic inflammation is rapidly being understood as the common cause of many illnesses. [youtube]https://youtu.be/onPPVd4_HCo[/youtube]
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We all want to live a healthy and balanced life. However, our busy lifestyles have left many of us tired, sick, and stressed out. We know the standard advice is to eat better, reduce stress, and get more sleep. Unfortunately, many of us are past the point of simple fixes and we need medical solutions
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A recent study demonstrated that fish oil supplementation (equal to about 3,000 mg twice daily of a standard fish oil capsule) combined with jogging or brisk walking (30 minutes 3-4 times per week) help to improve bone calcium density and strength better than either alone. The underlying mechanism involved here is reversal of inflammation which
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