Dr. Billiot’s weekly articles to help you learn and understand more about your own health and how to maintain it. Learn from Dr. Billiot!
Solve Stress Backwards
Is It Because of the STRESS, or Because of Poor Health? Spoiler: Later in this post, I will show you how to make some simple changes to demonstrate how you can be DONE with your stress problems. Stress in our Covid world is high and getting higher. It’s not like there...
How to Increase Your Energy & Motivation
How to increase your energy and motivation. THIS IS PART TWO OF A THREE-PART POST: HERE is a Link to PART 1 ("How to Improve Your Immune System" and "How to Think More Clearly") I'll be posting for PART 4 shortly. Energy and motivation are subjects with products...
Reduce Your Risk & Improve Your Life
Reduce Your Risk & Improve Your Life Here are four things I am going to tell you how to do for yourself: How to improve your immune system to avoid / or have a better outcome if you get Covid. How to think more clearly and reduce your anxiety or depression. How to...
New COVID Personal Guidelines
New COVID Personal Guidelines “The existence of more-transmissible viruses emphasizes the importance of us upping our game and doing not more of the same but better of the same.” —Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tom said...
Coping with the New, Different COVID Threat
We Now Have a New and Different COVID Problem I am so sick and tired of COVID. Likely so are you, and so are lots and lots of other people, which may partly explain what is currently happening with the virus. I think a lot of people have let down their guard, possibly...
Baking With No Sugar
HERE ARE SOME BAKING TIPS FOR (HEALTHY) TREATS I have spoken to many patients, and every one of them was concerned about eating healthy over the holiday season. Here are some tips and ideas so you can literally “have your cake and eat it too.” What if you don't...
Health and Getting Stuff Done
What's Health? Most people would define health as "the absence of any disease or impairment." This definition seems so obvious you might wonder why I'd bring it up at all. It's like stating that the definition of dark is an absence of light. But this seemingly obvious...
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...