Tips & Articles

A lot of press is being given to the impact of fructose. Dr. Lustig's viral video on sugar should be required watching for all humans. Fructose is fruit sugar, so with all the data supporting fructose and insulin resistance, many are taking that message to mean stop eating fruit. Here are some...

Just read an article about a local hospital and its parent company (a collection of mega-hospitals) being investigated for fraud. They allegedly have been overbilling Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance for millions of dollars more than the work that they did. What a shame. They will...

The Gut-Immune Barrier The problem with food sensitivity is often less about the food causing a direct harm to the body and more about a protein within the food being reconized as a foreign invader and stimulating inflammation of the immune system. It's this inflammation that sits at the...

There certainly is a lot of attention now given to food sensitivity. The awareness is increasing: Labels in the grocery store, menus at restaurants, lists of restrictions for kids in schools and daycare. The focus is mainly on the message that certain foods are irritating the body and driving lots...

I am going to start becoming more regular with the blog, I promise. I will write some new content, but also start linking some of my old stuff that currently lives at Discovery Health (the old PureHealthMD content). It's great stuff and I don't think it needs to be rewritten. Here are...

Interesting case this afternoon. Lady was having major digestive spasms that prompted anxiety. Went to several different doctors and a workup at a major national medical center and told there was nothing wrong. Meanwhile she as started on 2 blood pressure medications for a high heart rate (from...

Interesting discussion at the coffee shop the other day. The barista was shocked I didn't put any sweetener in my latte. Said it's very rare for someone not to have sweetener. Starbucks is our generations candy store. Sure the coffee is pretty good and the atmosphere and branding is...

One of the major manifestations of obesity is poor sensitivity (or responsiveness) to the hormone insulin. It's this insulin sensitivity issue that drives the "brain fog" that I see so frequently in patients that come to see me. This recent study confirms this fact and should motivate people...

So the coverage regarding the new findings in hormone replacement therapy (HRT), will strike fear in all women. The report is that women taking HRT had more advanced breast cancers and were more likely to die. Ready for the key piece of information buried in the study: The treatment studied was...

The Institute for Medicine proposes new labels on food. New labels "should highlight only four things: calories, saturated fat, trans fat and sodium, the report says". I think this is good step, but I would make some additional recommendations to food labelling: - eliminate the loophole that...