Sex hormones are not to be taken lightly. Some recent research measuring blood levels of estrogen in several hundred young women and then making facial “composite photos” showed that those with normal to high (but not too high) levels of estrogen were more physically (read “sexually”) appealing. Go overboard with estrogen and all sorts of […]
TYLENOL AND AUTISM: THE FACTS
You’ll not get the true facts about this from our President, whom, if you remember, also once suggested that injected disinfectant, like bleach, might kill the COVID virus. However, people being people, Poison Control Centers from around the country did get hundreds of calls from COVID patients who, listening to an authority figure, used a […]
COLON CANCER ON THE RISE AMONG PEOPLE UNDER 50
You may find this a bit unbelievable but as recently as the 1960’s there was still a debate about whether smoking caused lung cancer. Many doctors puffed happily away, even in hospital corridors and advised the same of their patients. The smokiest room in any hospital was the Doctors’ Lounge. The reason for this protracted […]
UNDERSTANDING GLP-1 MICRO DOSING
You’re tired of being overweight, and you’ve been a victim of the tyranny of the last ten, twenty pounds or much more as long as you can remember. You’ve tried everything. You’ve been dieting and nothing happens that ever lasts except hunger. You exercise to exhaustion, lose some pounds and gain them back. No matter […]
NEW TOOLS TO REDUCE YOUR CHRONIC INFLAMMATION
This is really important. Your longevity, the number of years you’ve got left this side of the sod, and equally important, how you will physically feel during those years, what diseases you may (or may not) develop will pretty much depend on the state of your inflammation. Did you ever wonder why some obese people, […]
A CHECKLIST OF OVERLOOKED CAUSES OF CHRONIC FATIGUE
If there’s one single symptom that brings patients most frequently into the offices of WholeHealth Chicago, it’s this: “I’m tired all the time and doctors can’t find anything wrong.” The “can’t find” you all are experiencing is the real problem of today’s health care system. It’s that notorious fifteen-minute medical encounter of primary care medicine: […]
ANTI-AGING THERAPIES: THE PEPTIDE SERMORELIN
I’ve written about peptides in a previous Health Tip; the most famous peptides on the planet being the two GLP-1 meds, semaglutide and tirzepatide. GLP, by the way, stands for “Glucagon-Like-Peptide”, glucagon being a hormone produced by your pancreas that raises your blood sugar. GLP-1 does the opposite, lowering your blood sugar, triggering weight loss. […]
ANTI-AGING BASICS
Slowing the rate at which you age isn’t just for old people trying to stay on the topside of the sod… If you’re under 40, supplements can provide plenty of coverage and set a perfectly reasonable goal of reaching your upper 90s or early 100s. Do understand that living a long life isn’t much use if […]
COVID FINALLY CATCHES ME AND RELATED COVID NEWS
This then explained my tickly cough and progressively worsening sore throat. My BinaxNOW Home Test was “positive”, so I phoned in Paxlovid for myself.
LITHIUM: YOU’LL BE AMAZED AT WHAT THIS ELEMENT CAN DO FOR YOU
Scientists who study the birth of the Universe believe there were only three elements at the very start: Hydrogen, Helium, and Lithium. All three are “everywhere”. Lithium, which means ‘from stone’, is really not a ‘stone’, but rather a very light metal, so light that in pure form, it can float. If you were inclined […]
TED BUNDY (REMEMBER HIM?) AND THE EFFECTS OF LEAD ON A CHILD’S BRAIN
I wasn’t sure I really wanted to read “Murderland”, a newly published book about the many serial killers from the Pacific Northwest. Throughout the 20th century, places like Tacoma and Seattle sounded seriously spooky. Writers dubbed them “Poisonvilles”, smelters crossed skylines belching toxic lead, arsenic, cadmium unchecked into the air, water, and soil of the […]
MENOPAUSE: DOCTORS ADVISE THE FDA TO REMOVE SOME OF THE WARNINGS ON HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY
If you’ve been prescribed estrogen vaginal inserts for vaginal dryness or recurrent post-menopausal bladder infections and read the accompanying paperwork you might, as many women do, toss the box away, muttering, “not for me”. There’s a “black box warning” printed there, alerting you that using the product increases your risk of blood clots, breast cancer, […]
Case Study: French Irritability Explained
Patti came to our offices with her daughter and she’d written “Everything hurts” on our patient intake form. As she rose from the waiting room chair, her face grimaced in pain. Patti was middle-aged and seriously overweight. If there’d ever been a spring in her step, it had vanished long ago. Patti said she’d been […]
NAD+: Getting Serious About Anti-Aging Therapy
We’re living in a time of major, worldwide breakthroughs when it comes to understanding how we age and also the steps we can take to not only slow down aging, but to all appearances reverse the process. Over history, the fountain of youth seekers came, literally and figuratively, to dead ends, but back then Ponce […]
Beyond the Symptoms: The Hidden Impact of PCOS
A recent report revealed the enormous impact of PCOS hidden symptoms, with diagnosis and lifetime treatments costing the U.S. around $8 billion a year. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects up to 20% of reproductive-age women—yet most remain undiagnosed for years. If you have PCOS, obviously you’re not alone. It’s estimated that PCOS affects one woman in […]
CASE STUDY: Why Ben Can’t Eat Steak!
I’d known the two of them for years. Now in their early fifties, Ben and Frieda were in good health—until Ben started reacting to red meat. What was happening? As it turns out, Ben was developing Alpha-Gal Syndrome, a tick-borne allergy that causes reactions to red meat. Frieda began, “We think this probably began weeks […]
CASE STUDY: ADRENAL FATIGUE
“Exhaustion is my reality. At four o’clock, I’m wiped, totally wiped.” Patricia is forty-three, happily married as far as marriages go, one kid, steadily employed in the usual American less-than-satisfying corporate job, good eating habits, and, until recently, health club a few times a week. Now she’s too tired for that. By appearance, she’s dragging. […]
CASE STUDY: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
This will begin some of our case studies, just how we use lifestyle changes and nutritional supplements for common health issues that conventional doctors treat first with a prescription med, often a second medication added to deal with side effects from the first. Phyllis B. was a long time patient of mine, whose medical problems, generally […]
A GENUINELY USEFUL BLOOD TEST
Many a time, either in person or via phone, someone will say a variation of the following, “Look, I’m taking all these vitamins and minerals but I really don’t know what I’m doing. I think I’m eating right but I might have some vitamin or mineral deficiencies that I know nothing about. I really don’t […]
NON-CELIAC GLUTEN SENSITIVITY: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY
Here’s a diagnosis that doctors only started thinking about as recently as the 1980’s and now, decades later, although there are now plenty of gluten free items available both in grocery stores and on restaurant menus, doctors are still arguing about its existence. Many don’t even mention it to their patients with irritable bowel syndrome. “Why […]