Why Women Must Worry About Heart Disease
Background Despite all of the awareness around heart disease prevention, it's troubling that women are still viewed differently than men, even though heart disease remains the number one killer in women. Women generally still perceive breast cancer as a greater threat to their health despite the…
February 26, 2019
Top Health Goals and How to Stick to Them
Background A key reason resolutions and rigid goal setting fail is because they typically involve some form of austerity or discipline: "I need to exercise harder" "I need to quit alcohol or tobacco" "I need to cut out sugar" "I need to start fasting" "I need to start meditating" Might work…
January 18, 2019
How to Prevent and Reverse Hypothyroidism
Background My clinic focuses on preventing and reversing diabetes and heart disease, but I've been struck with how prevalent thyroid disease has become in my practice. In particular, hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) due to an autoimmune condition called Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Unfortunately…
November 5, 2018
This Single Thought Process Can Ruin Your Health
Background A few recent accounts of suicide in the families of some of my patients along with headlines of fashion icon Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain taking their own lives led me to write this post. The root causes of mental health issues are incredibly complex, so during…
June 28, 2018
Top Vegetarian Proteins to Help with Diabetes and Weight Loss
Background One of the most common complaints I get in the office and on the lecture circuit is the lack of protein options for my vegetarian/vegan patients. Although many of my patients and followers have been great about lowering their sugar and excess carb intake, especially if they have or are…
June 14, 2018
Using Your Phone and Heart Rate to Monitor Stress
Why Stress Matters It's common to ignore stress since it is such a subjective measure compared to other familiar risk markers like blood pressure and cholesterol. Many of you reading this blog may already have a regular stress-reducing practice like meditation in place, but today's post is for…
June 2, 2018
7 Numbers I Track for Weight Loss
Updated March 2020 Weight Loss Case Study I saw a patient a few weeks ago for weight loss and diabetes reversal who told me he was on the keto diet, had lost 10 pounds initially and then plateaued. His diabetes A1C blood test dropped from 10.6 to 9.5, but without further changes. I asked him how…
May 15, 2018
6 Key Steps to Lowering High Blood Pressure
Background High blood pressure is becoming increasingly common in my clinic. It truly is a "silent killer" since the majority of people feel no symptoms until something serious happens like a heart attack, stroke, kidney failure or blindness. This means you need to be periodically monitoring your…
March 19, 2018
Can Resolutions, Goals and High Expectations Sometimes Harm Your Health?
Background I’ve blogged about New Year’s resolutions in the past and although I’m a fan of goal setting, I also wonder what it would be like to have a goal of “no goal.” In other words, learning to be more present and not constantly be driven by expectations from myself and others. This is not…
January 2, 2018
Watch My Google Talk on Curing Diabetes In Diverse Cultures Without Drugs
Watch My Google Talk on Curing Diabetes in Diverse Cultures It's almost the end of November, which is National Diabetes awareness month here in the US. My talk at Google on curing diabetes in diverse cultures just went live. Many of my followers who have attended my prior talks have called this…
November 28, 2017