The Gut: Where Your Body Meets the Outside World If I asked you to picture your digestive system, what comes to mind? For most people, it’s probably something fairly straightforward. You eat breakfast, food travels to your stomach, nutrients are absorbed somewhere along the way, and whatever isn’t needed eventually leaves the body. It seems […]
We Live in a Culture That Celebrates Stress One of the most interesting things I’ve noticed over the years is that almost everyone understands the importance of exercise. Most people understand that muscles become stronger after they’re challenged. They know that a workout creates microscopic damage within muscle fibers, and that over the next day […]
Why Extraordinary Health Is Built Between Appointments If you’ve been following along with this month’s series, you may be expecting me to finally tell you which supplements I recommend for supporting the immune system. We’re almost there. But before we talk about what we can add, we have to talk about what the body needs […]
The Missing Half of the Story One of the things I spend the most time doing as a doctor has very little to do with laboratory testing, prescriptions, or treatment plans. I spend a surprising amount of time helping people trust their bodies again. Somewhere along the way, many of us were taught that symptoms […]
It may need to be balanced. Part 1: Understanding What Your Immune System Is Actually Trying to Do One of my favorite questions to ask a new patient is surprisingly simple. “When was the last time you were sick?” Most people expect me to begin with medications, surgeries, or family history. Those questions certainly matter, […]
Some more recent information has come to light about the novel Coronavirus that’s sweeping the world right now. The discussion around which receptors in the body the Coronavirus actually latches onto has become of key interest. And since it is now the main topic of conversation surrounding COVID-19, I want to break it down for […]