How to Supercharge Your Immune System TW was a female patient of mine. One day, a couple years ago, she and her husband spent the day visiting with her father in law. They didn’t know it at the time, but he was carrying around a nasty bug. Three days after their visit, her father in [...]

‘Tis the season. I can feel your panic. Rainbow lights filling the neighborhood. Different Christmas carols in every store. Snow (or frost) on the ground. The urgent obligation to get the perfect gift. A social calendar with enough appointments to fill 3 months. It’s here. The busiest, most expensive and most tempting time of the [...]

Holidays are Here Coloured lights, Christmas carols, snow on the ground, a sense of urgency and obligation to fulfill social requirements. It is the most tempting time of the year. Parties, huge meals, home baked goodies, sugar plums, candy canes and eggnog are just a few of the temptations we face at this time of [...]

How to Eat Enough Vegetables to Win a Contest Or just be healthy. For a number of reasons, focusing our food intake on plants – especially veggies – is one of the most health promoting habits. Increased vegetable consumption has been shown to reduce the incidence of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and depression. In [...]

A Lesson from my Puppy The other morning I was sitting in our kitchen doing something important like Facebooking. My dog, Achilles, had the audacity to put on her whiny pants. So I put her outside. Tied to a tree. Ahhh… problem solved. Back to cat videos. A few minutes later I looked out the [...]

How Naturopathic Medicine Works I recently had the privilege of seeing an “elder” Naturopathic Doctor speak at a conference. An elder means that the doctor has been in practice for over 15-20 years. In other words, he knows stuff about what I want to know stuff about. I only saw part of his lecture because [...]

… If You Only Knew How To Listen I wrote candidly in a previous blog post about my journey with my skin – which started when I was very young although it didn’t manifest in my skin until I was in my early teens. I talked about how I needed to change some of my [...]

What is your skin trying to tell you? I know this article seems long… if you’re pressed for time I’ll give you the take home up front. Sometimes the simplest things make INSANELY huge differences. (Tweet it!) If you do read on you’ll get some surprises, interesting tricks and theories about healing eczema as I [...]

And I’m not talking about the kitchen. Nope. I’m not on glue. Although it’s funny you should think that. Glue is a perfect example of what I’m talking about in this article. The truth is that often those stubborn, unwanted pounds are not actually the problem. Get this. Often they are the solution. Pause and [...]