How to Stay Healthy in a Toxic World In my ongoing series on living in a chemical world, I have covered the following subjects: An overview of the ubiquitous chemicals in our environment that are negatively impacting our health, our food supply, and nutritional status. I also acknowledged the concepts and controversies surrounding [...]
Navigating Through the Global Sea of Chemicals In the past few articles, I’ve extensively discussed the links between chemicals and chronic diseases. In the first post, I explored the concepts and controversies surrounding cleansing and detoxifying. I reviewed how using a naturopathic and functional medicine and HAES (Health at Every Size) perspective could [...]
What You Don’t Know, or Assume Is Safe, Might Hurt You In my past two articles, I have explored the various reasons why it is essential for one to be aware of the negative health effects of living in a toxic world. By educating the public on these concerning associations, it is my [...]
The Toxic World We Live In & The Dirty Little Secrets That Many Do Not Know In the first part of this series, I started my discussion on why it is important to consider what our body is up against regarding exposures to toxins in our food supply and in our environment. I [...]
Can You Support the Body from Toxins without Obsessing on Weight Control and Food Restriction? Therapeutic cleansing has been used for physical and spiritual healing since ancient times and many cultures still use their traditional applications. The modern-based practices of detox diets and cleanses also have some evidence of improving health. Preliminary trials, [...]
(Listen to the full episode here.) Hope for a Solution to the Rise in Chronic Diseases in Kids According to a 2022 updated review in The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (bold emphasis mine): Chronic health conditions (both chronic illnesses and chronic physical disabilities) are generally defined as those conditions that [...]
Has Health Information Hijacked Your Amygdala? Most everyone has had the unpleasant experience of surfing through the online abyss of “Doctor Google.” Even if you didn’t have health anxiety to begin with, combine a rudimentary compilation of innocent bodily gurgles and aches with a few minutes of skimming through health blogs, and you [...]
How Conventional Medicine is Failing in Cardiovascular Care Heart disease is the number one killer in both men and women. With all the advances we’ve had in science, research, and treatments, we have not been able to downgrade it as the top cause of global mortality for decades. In fact, it is projected [...]
The Heart of Medicine: Staying Connected in an Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation In the past few articles, I’ve discussed how heart disease, the number one killer in men and women, continues to take its toll on the population. I reviewed some alarming statistics regarding women and cardiovascular disease (CVD), highlighted traditional risk [...]
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