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: […]
Category: Cognitive Health
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 […]
VITAMIN B-12: OUR MOST POTENT VITAMIN
Over the years of writing Health Tips, I was surprised to discover that one I’d written a few years ago about Vitamin B 12 Deficiency had received the most comments and questions from readers. Since there have been some interesting developments in both the diagnosis and treatment of B12 deficiency, and since B12 deficiency remains […]
BRAIN FOG: WHY DOCTORS AREN’T HELPING YOU
You can’t remember the name of the Netflix movie you saw last night, scant hours ago. That actor–what was his name? He was in, you know, that other movie, with that woman with the hair. “Oh, where is my mind?”. Then you get a notice from Verizon that they’re turning off your phone for nonpayment. […]