Let’s talk about underwire bras. The other day I had a patient come into my office and she said ‘I just learned I shouldn’t be wearing underwire bras’. I responded with, I’ve known that information for a number of years and I haven’t worn [...]
Let’s talk about cellular voltage and health! There was a very smart scientific, who was a noble prize laureate named Dr. Otto Warburg. What he discovered was that cells have a voltage, a measurable voltage that is analogous to a battery. That voltage is [...]
This is a question I often get asked when I recommend patients follow a dairy-free diet. This a diet that removes cow’s dairy from the diet. So you are removing milk, yogurt, cheese, ice cream from the diet that are cow-based. The reason we [...]
We’ve been hearing a lot more about blue light and I want to talk about, first of all, what is blue light? We get expose to blue light from the sun, from technology including TV, computers, laptops, tablets, phones, also from fluorescent lights, and [...]
Let’s talk about ways to improve our deep sleep. Sleep hygiene is so important to our overall health. One of the reasons we want to improve deep sleep is because during our deep sleep our body activates the glymphatic drainage of the brain, so [...]
Do you know what the glymphatic system is? The glymphatic system is the glial-lymphatic system. It was discovered in 2013. They’ve discovered that the fluids that go throughout our central nervous system, the brain and the spine, called our cerebral spinal fluid. There are [...]
Why is the vagus nerve important? The vagus nerve is one of the cranial nerves. It comes down the side of the neck, comes down the front of the thorax, bisects through the diaphragm and supplies all the digestive organs. It plays an essential [...]
Autoimmune disease is when the body attacks itself. It is when the body has a difficult time deciphering self from non-self. There are a number of different autoimmune conditions including allergies, eczema, psoriasis, vitiligo, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Grave’s disease, lupus, multiple [...]
Many of my patients experience gas and bloating after eating. One of the reasons for this may be that you are not effectively shifting your body into a parasympathetic state when you are eating. We live is a high stress society. We are typically [...]
Let’s talk about the connection between serotonin and gut health! Once you get into the science of it, you can see the connection between the gut and the brain and it is very fascinating information. Embedded into the lining of the digestive tract are [...]
