Stress Follow-Up: When Is A High Heart Rate Healthy vs Unhealthy?
High Heart Rate: When is it good and when is it unhealthy? I received a lot of questions regarding my last post (be sure to read and watch the video if you haven't) where I talked about how to use heart rate to monitor stress, and a prior post I did for my medical group on heart rate. Before I…
June 9, 2015
Parents…Save Our Children!
Introduction This post is a call to action to anyone responsible in some way for a child's health (parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, nanny, teacher, etc.) and comes on the heels of our live children's event this coming Sunday 3/15 from 2-5p. See here for details. The post below is excerpted…
March 10, 2015
How Do You Eat? A Key Factor in Optimal Nutrition
Digestion Under Stress I've talked a lot in my book and blog about the effects of stress on heart disease risk, sleep and obesity, but I want to focus in this post about the effects of stress on digestion (how well our body breaks down food) and nutrient absorption (how well our body absorbs…
March 1, 2015
Lifestyle Shifts for the New Year
I already discussed in a prior post why I don’t like the word “resolution” which tends to set people up for inevitable failure. I discussed using the word "habit" instead, but this year I'm talking about "shifts." Shifts are simplistic changes and substitutions you can make that require little…
January 6, 2015
Are We Aging Faster?
Our modern lifestyles have turned chronological age into a virtually insignificant number. Aging is not just the number of years you've inhabited planet Earth, but rather the degree of wear and tear your body, brain, and vital organs are expressing at a given point in time. When I came out of…
June 23, 2014
Can Stress Trigger Disease in Otherwise Healthy Individuals?
The connection between stress, inflammation and chronic disease has become quite clear to me in my practice. Let's talk about a patient of mine (name and details changed) to illustrate the point and then discuss some of the supportive science. Case Study Dev (name changed) is a 45-year-old hard…
May 23, 2014
Are You Digitally Addicted: The “CAGED” Criteria
I saw a patient recently who I suspected had issues with alcohol abuse. A standard questionnaire we learned from medical training to identify alcohol addiction is known as the CAGE Criteria where "CAGE" is an acronym for the following: C Have you ever felt you should Cut down on your drinking? A…
April 7, 2014
The Most Important Exercise You’re Not Doing Enough Of
We need to completely re-evaluate our approach to exercise given the weight of current evidence. Back in the days when physical activity was a natural part of our life and daily habits, it was assumed that we took enough steps to interrupt the damaging metabolic effects of prolonged sitting…
March 28, 2014
The Book Is Finally Here!
After what seems like an eternity, my book has finally arrived! Check out the video below and read the book summary so you get a good idea of what this book covers. It feels so rewarding to share all of the experience and success stories from my consult practice and corporate health education and…
March 3, 2014
Heart Disease: A Preventable Tragedy
I've had the privilege of making a positive impact on the health of many patients and employees through my consult practice and employer wellness programs. I share these stories often to educate and motivate patients and physicians. Unfortunately I'm also haunted by tragic stories where healthy…
February 4, 2014