Category: Radiant Life

The Power of Seeing

“Hey, Danny (not his real name), what’s up?” I asked my 9-year-old neighbor as our paths crossed one afternoon. “I am a dinosaur! Grrr! I’m going to crush you with my big feet!” he exclaimed with glee. “Really, Danny? I thought you were a smart little boy.” “No, I am a dinosaur!” “How was school…


How Garlic Can Help Clogged Arteries

Garlic is one of the most powerful foods around, and for good reason. Apart from its known antibacterial, antifungal, and antimicrobial properties, garlic has been documented in studies to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, and diabetes, to name a few. It’s also famed for helping to unclog arteries. Atherosclerosis is a complex disease…


Food as Medicine: The Answer to Mounting Health Crises

Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and professor emeritus at the University of California–San Francisco, has written a number of excellent books about health. His latest, “Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine,” goes deep into the details of how changes in our food supply have damaged our metabolic…


How to Turn a Toxic Conflict Into a Good One

We’ve all been there: Locked in a heated argument, blood pressure rising, fixated on our next point rather than actually listening to what the other person has to say. Even after it ends, it doesn’t really end—we keep ruminating on it for hours, days, weeks. This is what journalist Amanda Ripley refers to as “high…


Lifestyle Tips to Help Boost Testosterone at Any Age

You may not have thought much about testosterone in your younger years, particularly if you’re a woman. But as age advances, it can move closer to the top of your mind, particularly if you’re a man. Often regarded as the male sex hormone, testosterone is also essential to female health. Women have a lot less…


Innocence Lost: Our Children and Pornography

Though I’ve practiced several vices in my time, pornography was not one of them. I grew up in a town and a time when I didn’t even know the meaning of that word. At the private school I attended in seventh and eighth grade, 200 miles from home, one kid used to smuggle Playboy magazines into the…


Can Cell Phone Radiation Damage Your DNA?

Do mobile phones cause brain tumors? Whenever a trillion-dollar industry is involved—whether it’s Big Food, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, or Big Telecom—there’s so much money that sometimes the science can get manipulated. When it comes to the potential human health effects of cell phone use, certainly, you might end up with a crick in your…


Escaping the Insufferable Status Quo

In the past decade, my wife, Heather, and I have made some significant changes in our lives. Nine years ago, I stopped practicing law. Eight years ago, we ditched our bricks-and-mortar office and shifted to a virtual business model. Six years ago, we moved our family from a suburb of a large city to a…


Crescent City, Florida: Small Town Charm With Historic Houses Galore

Upon arriving in the small town of Crescent City, you will feel like you’ve stepped back in time. Filled with old Florida charm, it is a picturesque community full of beautiful turn-of-the-century homes and churches. Crescent City is a town comfortably nestled between two lakes: one shaped like a crescent moon, called Crescent Lake, and…


How to Work Out When It’s Been a While

Were you thinking about getting back in shape? You haven’t worked out since when? Maybe you kept celebrating long after the holidays were over, or perhaps you just lapsed into a lazy time of not caring about achieving a healthy life. Whatever you did or didn’t do doesn’t matter, because it’s in the past. Today…