Tips & Articles

Everyone knows a good night’s sleep is a requirement for optimal well-being. A poor night’s sleep has an immediate impact on how one feels the next day, and multiple night’s of poor sleep can lead to major health problems from heart disease to cancer. Rather than focus on...

Breathing is one of the most powerful tools we have for promoting relaxation and calmness. So often we spend our days in short, quick rapid breathing. This is part of the fight-or-flight, stressed state that so often plagues our days. The body is composed of two opposing neurological systems,...

A recent Gallup index shows that Fort Wayne remains the fattest city in Indiana. That means our message is not loud enough. C'mon Fort Wayne, let's start making some serious commitments and lower this ranking, for the sake of March Madness: 1. Switch to plain yogurt from any type of...

A new client yesterday said one of the reasons she came to us is that she started wondering, "Why am I taking advice from someone who does not take care of himself?" Unfortunately there is no class in medical school on self-care. It might be a whole different world if there was. Not just the...

I get a lot of questions about sprouted grain breads, like Ezekial and if they are any better than typical wheat bread. My experience says that some people will be able to tolerate this better than regular old bread and the fiber content and density is definitely higher. I found this interesting...

We've all heard since we were pouring Frosted Flakes into a plastic bowl and drinking the chocolately milk after a helping or three of Chocolate Rice Krispies: "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." But what was not drilled into us, was why it was so important. A good breakfast...

First it's heart catheterization as a treatment for heart disease is no better than medical management. Then agressive management of diabetes increases the risk of death. Now, the Achives of Internal Medicine tells us: "Despite important reductions in nonfatal MI, aspirin prophylaxis in...

The chart below shows the unheralded rise in pediatric obesity (not overweight, just obesity!) over the last 40 years. Outrageous, and downright scary. Kids today are flocking to multi-billion dollar pediatric centers for adult-onset diabetes, heart disease, joint replacement and bariatric...

Did you know that in a 5 year study, people who had their diabetes more aggressively managed with medication had a greater mortality? Wow. Yet all the system knows to do is to keep writing scripts and increasing doses. Sure your A1C is down, but so is your life expectancy. Time to get off...

We had a recent power outage at our house during the year's first winter storm. It only lasted about 10 hours, but it was some of the most enjoyable time our family spent together. You don't realize how much noise is in your home until it's all gone. We spent time in the dark, just...