Learn The Ugly Underbelly of Food Labeling
Fun fact. Did you know that some farmers used to add arsenic to chicken feed to destroy their chicken’s thyroids, making them gain weight? The practice is not as common as it once was, but farmers are paid so little for their product that they sometimes cheat just to...
US Healthcare is Sick
I find it strange that doctors are not included in the discussions about healthcare policy, or at least not in the numbers that are needed to make real beneficial changes. Probably because the changes would benefit the patient and not the insurance and pharmaceutical...
The Metabolic Hurdles to Weight Loss: A Functional Medicine Perspective
Remove the Metabolic Hurdles If weight loss was a track event, it would be the hurdles. You line up at the weight loss starting line. Pow! The gun fires and you start down the track towards the finish line. You clear the first couple of hurdles, but then you trip on...
Black Mold, Mycotoxins, and Our Bad Dog
Black Mold, Mycotoxins, and Our Bad Dog Mycotoxin exposure is a serious health issue, one that can be hard to explain when it affects a patient slowly, incrementally making them feel weaker and slowly robbing them of their health. How quickly someone succumbs to the...
Which Rice is the Healthiest?
Which Rice is the Healthiest? Out of brown, red, black, and white, which rice do you think is the healthiest? As usual, the answer is “it depends”. Most cultures eat white rice, which has had the bran and germ removed. The only culture that frequently eats...
