Our Immune System is Our Protection
What tends to happen in our society is that we blame other people for our own immune system. I was on a plane or a train and I caught a cold from them; or I was in class and there was someone else who [...]
Getting Sick is Exercise for your Immune System
Getting an infection and your immune system having to mount a response and your body having to fight off that infection is exercise for your immune system. It will actually make your immune system stronger. And when your body fights off that infection with [...]
Can I Consume Lactose-Free Dairy?
Here is a question that I often get asked. It is based on one of the recommendations that I often make with patients and that is to avoid cow’s dairy because cow’s dairy is a major inflammatory food. Then they will ask, can I [...]
Mistletoe Therapy
Let’s talk about Mistletoe therapy. This is a therapy that is not widely used in North America but it is widely used in Europe. Mistletoe is a white-berried European Mistletoe extract, called viscum album, it’s a medicinal plant that’s been used since ancient times. [...]
Fasting and Chemotherapy
What is the connection between chemotherapy and fasting? A number of my patients receive both the convention approach to cancer and the naturopathic approach, so that we can support a person’s body as they go through chemotherapy. One of the tactics that we can [...]
FIVE Tactics to Improve Insulin Resistance
First of all, what is insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is when our cells’ insulin receptors are not sensitive to insulin that is released from the pancreas in response to glucose or sugar, then they cannot allow glucose into the cells to make ATP or [...]
UBI Therapy
Let’s talk about UBI, Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation, Therapy. We remove some blood, usually about 50-60cc of blood. We mix that blood with an anti-coagulant. Within a closed, airtight circuit we return the blood to the patient. Before the blood returns to the patient the [...]
Pairing vitamin D3 & vitamin K2
Let’s talk about why vitamin D3 should always be paired with vitamin K2. This is really important information as more people are starting to understand the importance of supplementing with vitamin D3. Especially if you are not getting enough exposure to the sun, like [...]
A1 vs A2 Cow’s Dairy
What is the difference between casein A1 and casein A2? A question I often get asked by my patients or at my public talks is the whether it is okay to consume casein A2 dairy or what are my thoughts on A1 vs A2 [...]
The Cause of Insulin Resistance
How does insulin resistance happen within the body? The common belief is that insulin resistance only occurs due to consuming high amounts of sugar. And that can definitely be a contributing factor, as we as a society have increased our consumption of sugar over [...]