A lot of healthcare providers I know who are also fans of bone broth spend a lot of time trying to convince their vegetarian patients to eat bone broth. While I do think bone broth is essential, I don’t think that’s particularly fair to vegetarians. So, if a patient is unwilling to try bone broth, [...]
Vitamin D is a unique vitamin. It is the only vitamin that the human body can produce naturally. Vitamin D is often called the “sunshine vitamin” due to the fact that the body can synthesize vitamin D as a result of direct exposure to sunlight on the skin. Recently, this vitamin has been getting a [...]
Boosting Your Health Naturally So many people rush to pills or vitamin and mineral supplements to cure what ails them. Unfortunately, this is the nature of our society, a development of living a life cut off from our food and its sources. Instead of looking for a cure in a pill, whenever possible, I encourage [...]
The word Calcium makes most people think of two other words – bones and milk. Calcium is essential for having strong bones and teeth. Calcium also plays essential roles in myriad other functions in the body, such as the function of the nervous system and the heart, and even in cancer prevention, according to research [...]
About bone broth In Chinese medicine, the digestion is likened to a pot of simmering soup. Raw ingredients go in, and a new, refined product comes out. In our body, the raw material is food and the refined product is Qi, the vital energy of the body that makes everything work. It is no wonder [...]
As you many of my patients know, I have been gluten-free for over 8 years. My health now compared to when I was eating gluten… well, there’s really no comparison. I wasn’t overtly sick when I was eating gluten, but I just wasn’t well. I was fatigued, my complexion was sallow, I caught colds easily [...]
Atopic dermatitis, the umbrella under which eczema falls, is characterized by itching, and patches of dry, thickened skin typically on the hands, neck, face and legs. In children, it commonly appears on the backs of the knees and inside the elbows. To read more about adult eczema, please visit my eczema page by clicking here. [...]
At the American College of Gastroenterology’s (ACG) 76th Annual Scientific meeting in Washington, D.C., researchers reported a connection linking psychological trauma to Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) in adults. The study had 2623 participants, and found that participants with more psychological traumas – “such as the death of a loved one, divorce, natural disaster, house fire [...]
We are living in a time when our soil has been depleted of healthy nutrients and saturated with petrochemical fertilizers, weed killers, and GMO crops. We are living in a time like that of Li Dong-yuan, founder of the Spleen-Stomach School of Chinese medicine; time when we are exposed to all sorts of unnatural things [...]
Like the cause of heartburn during pregnancy, the increased in levels of estrogen and progesterone during pregnancy render the smooth muscle of the lower digestive tract lax. This makes bowel movements a bit sluggish. If a woman is experiencing constipation during pregnancy, it is incredibly important to maintain an adequate intake of fiber and fluids. [...]
