Apparently, various endurance exercise habits train not only your muscles and cardio but also your immune system’s natural killer cells. Who would have thought that pushing through a few miles on the trails or on the bike would help train immune cells to keep balance in the later years? Earlier studies often indicated that after…
While advancing computer technology brings us opportunities to improve medical care both for research and for individual patients, it also presents new choices to make about how we deliver health care. This technology crosses new horizons, allowing us to process vast amounts of medical data, for both large groups of people and individuals. This data…
The pesticide on your fruit or from your neighbor’s yard may leave long lasting changes on your immune system, possibly on your yet-to-be-born children’s immune system. We live in a toxic fishbowl of our own making, especially when we choose to participate in the self-delusion. Yet, we keep asking ourselves, our neighbors, and our medical…
Vitamin D stands out among the most critical and most researched nutrients. The list below only scratches the surface of known and suspected benefits of maintaining adequate vitamin D. It is actually more of a hormone than a vitamin in its mechanisms of action and in being produced from cholesterol metabolism. While nearly all recognize…
While the internet and its many medical practitioners have launched telemedicine from science fiction into everyday habit, the ability to see your provider from home does not always equate into being good enough for every type of medical visit. Though it is true that the foundation of a diagnosis rests on the patient’s story, there…
Sometimes, revisiting important points from the past is needed as we can forget important lessons. This “Oldie but Goodie” is one of those good reminders. “Don’t Look for Superheroes to Save Your Health.” Let’s step back from individual therapies that a functional medicine provider might recommend for our patients and consider the bigger picture of…
While we may not turn back the overall wave of AI (Artificial Intelligence) impact on our lives, awareness of its dark side of its use by teens can save lives. Teens have easy access to AI interfaces and are subject to an increasing mental health crisis. The result has already taken the lives of a…
While the internet and its vast array of resources has empowered a veritable army of those who can better care for their health and their family’s health, there lurks a risk in playing doctor for yourself. Even as a doctor myself, it has been very challenging caring for my own family as we navigated mold…
In a world filling with more and more microplastics, research which demonstrates bacterial antibiotic resistance through biofilms on these microplastics should get everyone’s attention. As the world has turned to depending on plastic products for so many aspects of daily life, the tiny debris of these plastics rub off and spread practically everywhere. As these…
Probiotics for Vitiligo As scientists discover more and more connections between our gut flora and our disease processes, studies like this one give hope to vitiligo patients who have few other options from the medical world. In their mouse study, the researchers purified a probiotic-produced chemical and confirmed both vitiligo improvement and immune cell changes…