Category: Ask A Doctor

Ask a Doctor: Is There a Way to Help Prevent or Reverse Diabetes?

Have you had a pre-diabetes scare? Are you looking to turn your health around before it’s too late? If so, you know better than anyone how scary it can be to hear that your blood sugar is dangerously high. You also know how daunting “reversing it” can seem, at least initially. However, this doesn’t have…


The Truth About the ‘Stealth’ Variant

US officials had predicted that Omicron would be the variant to end the pandemic. However, varying degrees of pandemic lockdown measures are still being carried out in recent weeks, while the new variant in the Omicron family–BA.2 has continued to spread to more than 110 countries based on data from outbreak.info. To differentiate them better,…


5 Reasons Your Eyelids Twitch, Explained by a Doctor

There’s a saying that “twitching on the left eyelid forecasts fortune, while twitching on the right eyelid forecasts disaster.” While it’s true that eyelids do occasionally twitch, an abnormally twitching eyelid is a health warning from the body. Why Do Eyelids Keep Twitching? It’s an annoyance—short term twitching is distracting, and long term twitching starts…


Natural Ways to Combat Brain Fog After Covid

As we continue to learn about the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused a world pandemic, researchers and those who have contracted COVID-19 are seeing a rise of memory and cognition issues that may be attributed to long Covid. In fact, two recent studies say that 7 out of 10 long Covid sufferers have memory and concentration…


75-Year-Old’s White Hair Turns Black, Doctor Explains Why

Dr. Kuo Ta-Wei, Director of Fu Yuan Chinese Medicine Clinic, told us a story that made us rethink whether our white hair is here to stay. “In an integrated Chinese and Western therapy program during the acute treatment of stroke, there was a 75-year old woman who was paralyzed and motionless. We did the scalp…


Doctor Explains When You Shouldn’t Fast, and When Chest Pains May Be Due to Stomach Problems

More and more people have gastrointestinal problems, sometimes with symptoms patients don’t recognize are related to their gastrointestinal systems. Besides seeing the doctor for the right medicine, some food can also help improve the symptoms. Dr. Lai Jui-Hsin, director of Hanmingtang Clinics of Taipei, noticed that there are more and more patients with gastrointestinal problems…


Not Everyone Can Intermittent Fast, Here’s Why

More and more people have gastrointestinal problems, sometimes with symptoms patients don’t recognize are related to their gastrointestinal systems. Besides seeing the doctor for the right medicine, some food can also help improve the symptoms. Dr. Lai Jui-Hsin, director of Hanmingtang Clinics of Taipei, noticed that there are more and more patients with gastrointestinal problems…


4 Reasons for Insomnia and Light Sleep—Do This Instead

Getting a good night’s rest is not only important for starting your day refreshed, but serves an important biological process for restoring the body. Dr. Chun-Hsu Chen, a doctor of Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr University, points out that if cells are damaged during the day, the body will repair the damage at night during sleep,…


Why Some People Won’t Get Infected, Even After Covid Exposure

Recently an unprecedented study was conducted in the UK; a Covid-19 “Human Challenge Trial.” In it, 36 unvaccinated young adults were recruited to be injected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 through the nose. While the ethics of this study are undoubtedly questionable, the results were even more surprising. None of these people got seriously sick, and,…


Ask a Doctor: Health Problems After Covid Jab

If you believe your COVID-19 vaccination may be responsible for certain conditions that developed afterwards, you could be right and you may need to take measures to recover. As information and data surrounding the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines have become increasingly available, scientists and doctors continue to express concerns regarding the negative…