Detoxification: A Very Different View
Detoxification: A Very Different View Detoxification is one of the most cherished tools used by many holistic or alternative healthcare practitioners. It's easy to understand the concept: we live in a toxic environment, eat toxins in our food, slather toxic personal...
Caring: Why Health Care Fails
Caring: Why Health Care Fails There are some remarkable technologies available in our modern health care system. Sadly, these are often unavailable or misused in ways that limit or stop their effectiveness. Partly this lack of access is from the debacle of our health...
The Problems with “The Pill”
The Problems with “The Pill” Women are rarely fully informed of the potential problems and health hazards from the birth control pill. Somehow we think we can take a precisely-running organism like the human body and then insert into it foreign chemicals and other...
The Villain of the Piece: Endocrine Disruptors
The Villain of the Piece: Endocrine Disruptors Reader’s Note: This post introduces a little-known topic that can be very dangerous to your life and health. Reading the facts as I present them can be overwhelming… maybe it’s just easier to “give up and hope for the...
The Female Curse
The Female Curse Sometimes an entire subject can seem inspiring or terrifying, depending on how you view it. A child who is afraid of dogs might overcome that fear, get a dog as a pet, and discover love, loyalty, and responsibility. Similarly, my patients often are...
Making the Best of Your Life: The 20s and 30s
Making the Best of Your Life: The 20s and 30s In a time with nothing but bad news, pessimism, and doom and gloom around the subject of health, I have decided to lighten things up. Imagine how your life could and should be if you were taking care of yourself and had...
Vaccination: a Fightin’ Word
Vaccination: a Fightin’ Word Vaccination is a four-letter word these days. I am an alternative health care practitioner, a doctor of Chiropractic who runs a holistic nutrition center in Atlanta, Georgia. For someone like me, discussing the subject of vaccinations can...
Your Body’s Guardian Angels
Your Body’s Guardian Angels Here you are in the chaos created by a pandemic added to the chaos of the year 2020. But in the middle of this confusion and stress, your body has real heroes: your adrenal glands! They are your body’s guardian angels, and I want you to...
Fixing Your Hormones
Does Your Body Seem Out of Control—Your World Flipped Upside-Down? You may be suffering from hormone imbalances Did you know that there are about 50 hormones in your body and that these hormones control almost everything? Hormones affect the way you look, the way you...
Are You Frustrated With Your Health? Here’s Why
Are You Frustrated With Your Health? Here’s Why Janet started to have stomach pain after eating. It gradually got worse, and she started coughing a lot. She made an appointment with her doctor—and started on a trail to complete frustration. After five doctor visits to...
Pandemic Stress Solutions
Why Less Stress is Crucial If you have constant stress, anxiety, or worry, then your level of the hormone cortisol can become elevated. Cortisol is a hormone (a steroid) that is released when you’re stressed. It affects almost every part of your body. If you have high...
The Trail Out of Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Heart Disease & Obesity
The Trail Out of Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Heart Disease & Obesity In many cases, there may be a way to prevent future damage to your life from your diagnosis. It is NOT an “easy way out,” however. If you possess some grit, determination, and self-discipline, if...
Energy is Life; Fatigue is No Life
Energy is Life; Fatigue is No Life If you have a fatigue problem, you know it. Often physical fatigue couples up with mental sluggishness. Brain fog, poor concentration, and memory problems can make up a misery package. Physical and mental fatigue combined can be a...
The Three Deadly Attitudes
The Three Deadly Attitudes Three attitudes are deadly to solving ongoing* health problems. I call these “deadly” because if you believe these ideas, you will never get rid of your health problems. You might be completely capable of healing and recovering your health,...
Ten Clues That Your Health Needs Immediate Attention
Ten Clues That Your Health Needs Immediate Attention Here is a list of clues, so you'll know if you are—right now—sliding down a slippery health slope. Then I'm going to tell you some very depressing things about what you find. Then I'll tell you some, truly, great...
Wishing and Hoping
Wishing and Hoping To hope and to wish is a necessary part of any creative process. I think we sometimes undervalue hope. “He’s just wishing and hoping” is a scornful description of a lazy or incompetent person. But do you realize that absolutely nothing could ever...
Gratitude is Such a Happy Word
NOTE: This post was originally made in June, 2019. I thought it appropriate to re-post it now. Gratitude is such a happy word. To be thankful. To love and appreciate the good around us. The people and the things that make our lives better and worth living. The big...
The Escher Immunity Principal
Sometimes the answer to a problem or threat isn’t where you expected it to be. It can be like the Escher painting above: things can look completely different depending on how you view them. Most of us are used to expecting our conventional doctors to have solutions to...
Pandemic Heros
This my friend Markay. She and her friends at Sewing Masks for Area Hospitals-Atlanta have made almost 20,000 masks for our area hospitals. On their own time with their own and donated fabric, without payment of any kind. The fact that we in the US are relying on hero...
Sugar and Your Immune System
Sugar and Your Immune System Dr. Linus Pauling's Forgotten Research Your body has a very efficient system for protecting itself from outside "invaders" such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc. The single most important part of this system is the body's ability to...