Most people’s health expectations are too high for themselves. People think they are healthy because they do not have a hard-core disease or disease diagnosis. Yet they continue to buy snacks from vending machines, eat frozen dinners, play video games and live a sedentary life. They do not realize that they are living right on the […]
Author: thedoc
How to breathe for abundant health
The main reason I think breathing often gets overlooked (even though we’re doing it 20,000 times a day) is that we don’t give credence or respect to our autonomic nervous system or limbic system. The limbic system is always working for us whether we are working, sleeping, playing, or eating. We have failed to realize […]
Thyroid Health: How to optimize T4 to T3 conversion
Your thyroid gland is a big deal right? I mean what doesn’t it affect? Every cell in your body has thyroid receptors. Without proper action of the thyroid gland and the hormones it produces, all manner of havoc can show up in the body. From liver and kidney function, to blood sugar regulation, weight gain or loss, […]
The 10,000 Step Rule
In general, I’m not a fan of blanket rules because rules are meant to broken and numbers are meaningless unless they are personalized. However, acquiring 10K steps per day as a matter of promoting your health trajectory and building health momentum is a great plan. One that I would back up 100%. The average American […]
Which is better Stevia or Monk fruit?
One of the reasons why I use Stevia as a sweetener in my supplements is that other than the preference of taste there isn’t any known downside to stevia in terms of health. As far as I have seen, there isn’t any negative impact on blood sugar, cancer, digestion or immunity. In fact, pre-clinical studies […]
Post COVID lingering fatigue and neurological symptoms
I have had multiple questions about post COVID lingering fatigue and neurological symptoms. For those who have suffered for years with chronic viral illness and have been told ‘it’s all in your head’, one inadvertent blessing of the onslaught of media coverage around covid, is it’s also bringing to light the fact that chronic post […]
Community: The key to reaching your fitness goals
If you desire fitness to be a natural part of your life, then it is going to be crucial that you get into a community with likeminded people who already have an established fitness routine. If hitting the gym, doing a home HIT workout, going for a walk is not part of your routine, then […]
Exercise: Keep it simple
What is the best exercise? How do I get the most out of my exercise? Often exercise is complicated to the point that people completely stop exercising because they fear they may be doing it wrong. I am about to clear this up for you. All exercise and physical activity have benefits. However, there is […]
Are artificial sweeteners making you fat?
What if I told you that artificial sweeteners like sucralose, Splenda, aspartame, sweet n low, NutraSweet were actually increasing your risk of fat accumulation. Crazy right? I mean we are told by the American Diabetic Association that zero-calorie sweeteners don’t count and if you are macro counting for weight loss, there are no carbs in […]
What does it mean when serum iron is high but ferritin is low?
This question comes up all the time. Patients are baffled when their serum iron levels come back elevated and their ferritin levels come back low even though they have all of the symptoms of iron depletion. What’s going on? Often doctors or even patients who see this think ‘oh no we better stop taking iron support’ […]