"Lies My Doctor Told Me" - book review and podcast with Dr. Ken Berry. This helpful book covers 17 "Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health". Berry questioned his conventional medical training when he tried to lose weight. He cut saturated fats, started jogging, ate more whole grains and promptly gained 10 more pounds. He found Robb Wolf's "The Paleo Solution" and Mark Sisson's "The Primal Blueprint" and hasn't looked back. "Lies My ... Keep Reading >
Hypertension
Keep Calcium Out of Your Arteries! The Vitamin K2 Heart Disease Link
The Vitamin K2 heart disease link is intriguing. Just as the calcium in hard water can clog pipes and ruin your dishwasher and sprinklers, calcium can be incorrectly deposited in the lining of our arteries. Calcium in the arteries is part of Atherosclerosis - hardening of the arteries. When arteries become narrow, hard, or inflexible, blood pressure increases to push blood through those narrow channels. This results in high blood ... Keep Reading >
High Blood Pressure Myths and Lies
Do you know these high blood pressure myths and lies? Not knowing can lead to a lifetime of medication never resulting in a "cure". Medications may address only the symptom and not the cause of high blood pressure. Hypertension is serious and can absolutely cause chronic illness or death. Getting it properly diagnosed - and treating the true cause(s) - should be your aim. First, some definitions.... Blood pressure is "the ... Keep Reading >
5 Ways Vitamin D Can Save Your Life
Vitamin D can save your life? Yes! It really can.... Vitamin D is THE vitamin superstar, affecting so much more than bones and teeth. The brain, immune system, hormones, cancer prevention and gene expression all rely to some extent on Vitamin D. You may be surprised at my list below of 5 life-saving areas requiring optimal D3 levels. Vitamin D has been called "one of the simplest solutions to wide-ranging health problems". Why ... Keep Reading >
GABA and Serotonin Deficiency: The Brain Quiz
Want to know your brain a little better? Here's an intro to GABA and Serotonin deficiency and a short Brain Quiz to help tell the two apart. GABA and Serotonin are the two main inhibitory neurotransmitters. Inhibitory sounds like a bad thing, but we need a balance between excitatory and inhibitory aspects of all functions in the body. Just as there's light and dark, and fast and slow, we need to have both to be in ... Keep Reading >
Uric Acid Blood Test – A Marker For Fructose Metabolism
You may already know that elevated uric acid causes gout - a painful inflammation of the joints, especially hands and feet. But did you know that a uric acid blood test can be used as a marker for fructose toxicity? One of the by-products of fructose metabolism is uric acid, so when you consume too much table sugar, high fructose corn syrup, agave nectar, sweetened sodas, or fruit juices, your uric acid levels rise. Elevated uric acid ... Keep Reading >
Why High Blood Pressure, Cholesterol And Glucose May Be Normal
Before we had stores, and cities, and crops, we had life in the wild. We hunted, or we were hunted. We survived, or we perished. Cholesterol and glucose were still our friends. As long as the hunters could bring in fish and game, we could gather plenty of wild weeds (vegetables), and some nuts, fruits, mushrooms, eggs, tubers, etc. to go with the meat. And we stayed close to fresh water. There was a rhythm to life that was ... Keep Reading >