How to Listen to That “I Don’t Feel Good” As we care for patients, we hear all kinds of stories, and it’s a rare time when somebody comes up with a symptom we’ve never heard of before. So often, on top of everything else, patients say, “I just don’t feel good.” It’s not pain, it’s…
Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. [Proverbs 19:27] If there’s one thing we humans love to hear, it’s ‘You ain’t gotta change nothing.’ Next best is, ‘You just change this thing you don’t mind changing or maybe even want to alter.’ But substantial, long-term instruction…
Many parts of life leave us feeling trapped, and since 2020 that includes feeling stuck with getting this or that variant of COVID intermittently. Besides feeling annoyed that it keeps biting us with acute episodes, many also have to deal with the repeated waves of intensified Long COVID or Post COVID syndrome. This study offers…
Let’s talk about responding to pain. We all have pain, unless you’re one of those rare people in the world whose pain receptors did not develop, who go through life without pain (which is actually very dangerous). But all the rest of us end up having some amount of pain in our life, mediated by…
He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach. [Proverbs 19:26] The integrity and vibrancy of the family are second only to one in Scripture’s conception of spiritual health. Personal moral health, by faith in God and the work of His Spirit (John 14:26),…
While Big Pharma continues search for marketable therapies for Metabolic Associated Steato-Hepatitis (i.e. MASH, or fatty liver), we can learn a few things from their current contender for a patentable MASH therapy. First, peptides, despite the political hype against them, are promising for a variety of conditions. Second, glutathione, also a peptide, likely contributes to…