The exposome is the total load of chemicals good and bad that we are exposed to in daily life, and it continues to make headlines with a study showing that flares of rheumatoid arthritis joint inflammation may be triggered by increased levels of particulate matter in our air. Having found connections linking the development of…
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…
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…
So, when everything’s going well, you may think, “Oh, I can just kind of go about my business, there are no problems, I just keep going, and I don’t really need to listen to my body that much unless it really screams at me.” Well, in reality, for those who are struggling with chronic health…
If a heart health headline gets your attention on a regular basis, you are a veteran of many, many mixed messages, but we can all agree that more berries with more flavanols will lower heart risk. Yes, the debate over carbs and fats (particularly cholesterols) rages, but large studies like the COSMOS study make a…
Don’t let a conventional doctor dismiss your questions about B vitamins and your fatigue, not after reading this study from Japan. While there are literally hundreds of medical reasons for someone to feel tired, studies like this suggest that we should keep B12 and Folate in that list rather than just blame a stressful lifestyle…
The verdict is final on UPFs (ultra-processed foods), and it should get more news attention than the UFO hype we put up with. Even if a UFO never lands on the White House lawn, every day millions of Americans are consuming cardiovascular poisons and loving it. These UPFs have been clearly shown to increase a…
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…
We all want answers, especially when it comes to our children’s health, but we need to be clear about whether something is the chicken or the egg. Just because we find a correlation between a medicine and a disease, does not mean that we have a cause. It just means that we are on to…