Inflammation Precedes Depression
Depression is a very common illness. About 17 percent of the population will have at least one episode in their lifetime. WHO predicts that by [...]
Fermented Foods – Sauerkraut
One night this summer, after scanning the umpteenth Facebook Health News Alert on the extreme health benefits of fermented foods I broke down and decided [...]
Lyme Video – Excellent Overview
THE SILENT EPIDEMIC Lyme is becoming recognized as an increasingly common illness worldwide. Last year the CDC revised its estimate of the number of new [...]
Cannabidiol (Cbd) Oil and Neuroinflammation
As a physician practicing in Arizona I am often asked for my thoughts on the subject of medical marijuana and whether it affects neuroinflammation. Like [...]
Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide and Neuroinflammation
Alzheimer’s Disease, perhaps the illness most feared by people as they grow older, is increasingly recognized as a neuroinflammatory condition. One of the most common causes [...]
Bonus For Boomers
This is a great video for boomers to watch to remind themselves why they shop at Whole Paycheck, shun most of the foods they grew [...]
The Big Fat Myth
By now everybody knows that fat is bad for the heart and causes clogged arteries and heart attacks. Right? Not really. Since the 80’s the [...]
Brain on Fire: the Role of Mold in Triggering Psychiatric Symptoms
This is a transcript of a talk I gave recently describing how neuroinflammation can trigger psychiatric symptoms. It was published on the Paradigm Change website. This a website [...]
Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Inflammation at the Genetic Level
Readers of this blog know that inflammation mediated through exposure to environmental toxins can cause both physical and mental symptoms. They are also probably aware that [...]
Natural Thyroid Treatment
One of the more contentious debates in modern medicine concerns the use of natural porcine thyroid versus clean synthetic Synthroid. Armour thyroid, which is porcine derived [...]