The Best and Worst Vegetable Oils
There are many items that we know to avoid in our diets. For example, you probably already know that trans fats are bad for your health. But there are many other items that are touted as healthy, that really aren’t. And part of the problem is that there’s so much...
What’s Wrong With Grains?
In the food pyramid and other standardized forms of dietary recommendations such as MyPlate, grains have made up the foundation of the recommended diet for a few decades now, encouraging people to eat 6-11 servings of "healthy whole grains" every day. However, in...
How to Find the Best Pastured Meats
If you read my posts on the health benefits and the environmental benefits of pastured meats, then - if you weren't already - hopefully now you're planning to source more of your proteins from pasture-raised animals. Fortunately, finding high-quality grass-fed meats...
Is Grass-Fed Meat Good for the Environment?
Environmental health has been at the forefront of the public consciousness in recent years. The disastrous and increasingly negative consequences of global warming and the continued impact that we’re having on our planet have made climate change a cause that many are...
Is Pastured Meat Really Better for Your Health?
With all the recent and growing hype about grass-fed meats, do you sometimes wonder: Is pastured meat really better for you? Particularly when the meats from pastured animals are more expensive than "regular" supermarket meats, this is an important question to...
Top 5 Stress Relievers for Hypertension
Have you been diagnosed with elevated or Stage 1 or 2 high blood pressure (aka hypertension), and your MD wants to put you on side-effect-ridden prescription medications (that often aren't very effective)? If so, and if you – very sensibly – don’t want to go that...
Top 4 Supplements for Hypertension
Do you have high blood pressure and want to learn more about natural ways to address it? Then you've come to the right place! You happily have several great natural options for hypertension, without any of the side effects of prescription high blood pressure...
The #1 Root Cause of Disease
One of my primary roles as a holistic doctor is to be a health detective. People come to me to help them figure out what is going on with their bodies, why things are going wrong, and how to fix them so that they can feel better, stop worrying about their health,...
The Best Immune-Boosting Foods
Last week, I talked about the importance and health benefits of probiotic foods and supplements, and how to choose them, to enhance the number and diversity of the beneficial micro-organisms in your microbiome. Today we will look at the flip side, and talk about the...
The Best Probiotics
You're probably familiar with probiotics, and with the importance of having a proper balance of them in your body for achieving and maintaining optimal health. But did you know that an imbalance of them - called gut dysbiosis - can adversely affect every aspect of...
The Beauty of Bitters
Last week, I talked about the importance of boosting your digestion by improving your levels of stomach acid, digestive enzymes, and bile. One of the best ways to do all of that, naturally, is to regularly partake of the bitter flavor. For most of us, this takes some...
Boosting Your Digestion
In my last article – on natural remedies for the symptoms and root causes of seasonal allergies – one of the remedies I talked about was boosting your digestion. Today, I want to dive deeper into this very important topic, because one of the keys to achieving and...
Natural Remedies for Allergies
Do you suffer from seasonal allergies, aka hayfever? If so, you know how miserable and unrelenting the symptoms can be. Help is on the way! I’m here to tell you the top 7 tips to not only get quick relief from those symptoms (without all the down sides of allopathic...
Determining the Root Causes of Your Allergies
Did you see my article on the 4 main root causes of seasonal allergies, and now you’re wondering how to figure out which one(s) are plaguing you? That’s what we’re going to talk about here. Quick review if you’re just jumping into this 5-part series midstream: Part 1:...
The Root Causes of Seasonal Allergies
Do you suffer from seasonal allergies, and wonder what the root causes are, so you can start to really fix them, once and for all? In this 3rd article in my 5-part series on seasonal allergies, I cover the most common root causes of seasonal allergies – some might...
The Top 7 Triggers of Seasonal Allergies
Nearly 40% of the population worldwide - and more than fifty million Americans - report suffering from allergies each year. And many more suffer in silence.(1) In this article, which is Part 2 in a 5-part series on Seasonal Allergies, we'll explore the most common...