Using natural medicine to live a high quality life
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2010
From the excellent blog EvMed Forum (formerly called NephroPal) by the exceptional MD Dr. T (if you don’t follow the EvMed Forum at nephropal.blogspot.com I highly recommend you do so): "I wonder why so few physicians embrace nutritional approaches to problems-perhaps you can shed some light. Do you find your patients are receptive to the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2010
A fascinating bit of research that was brought to my attention by a colleague. In this study of people with autoimmunity, from ~4-10% of those patients tested positive for antibodies to vitamin D. While bizarre, it is possible to actually have antibodies against vitamin D (reinforcing the notion that it is possible to have antibodies [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2010
Most of us recognize that things like money, houses, cars and other “stuff” isn’t what really counts or makes us happy. What really makes us happy are the intangible things like caring, close relationships, meaning and a sense of purpose in our lives. But how do we measure these things? We don’t have bank accounts [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2010
In case you haven’t heard, Internet blogger Denise Minger published a statistics-based scathing review of the China Study (found here at http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fallac/
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2010
The following two pages have some wonderful quotes by some well-known and some less well-known people about the wonder of childhood. http://www.naturalchild.org/quotes/2009.html http://www.naturalchild.org/quotes/2010.html Our society and times place little value on childhood itself. Childhood in this age of hyper-nervous parenting is about keeping children safe from any and all danger long enough that they can [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2010
In 1983-84 a massive study was undertaken in China to catalogue the health and habits of rural Chinese living in 65 counties and was dubbed “The China Study”. From http://webarchive.human.cornell.edu/chinaproject/index.html?CFID=111563459&CFTOKEN=99505440&jsessionid=c4308872a48b2b1a6829 “Within each of the 65 counties, 2 villages were selected and 50 families in each were randomly chosen for study. One adult from each household [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2010
If you have a “dumb” dog the following blog post should give you a good laugh. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/07/dog.html My family is the proud caretakers of two dogs. One is smart as a whip, the other…not so much. After 10 years of training, he still does not know his name, his sit on command is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2010
I recently spent a weekend on the strip in Las Vegas. The strip, the area where the major casinos are located, feels to me like another planet. Flying over empty desert, Las Vegas springs up suddenly like an oasis, or maybe a mirage, in the midst of nothing. Green golf courses, gigantic buildings with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 3rd, 2010
Vitamin D looks like it’s as close to a “miracle” pill as we are likely to get. This potent hormone (not really a vitamin) produced when sunlight strikes the skin or found in a few uncommon food sources (also now in fortified food) has been suggested in studies to help bones become and stay strong, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 3rd, 2010
“Success in America is definitely defined by how much money you’ve made, not by how happy you are with your life.” That’s a quote from a young girl in the trailer for The Race to Nowhere, an interesting and relevant view of what we are doing to our kids in the name of helping them [...]