“Eat dirt!” is a phrase I remember well. It was in the title of an article published by Harvard University environmental health professor, Dr. Scott T. Weiss, and it captured my attention while I was learning about an immunological concept known as the “hygiene hypothesis.” The core of the idea is that we live in a microbial…
Science Confirms Turmeric Is as Effective as 14 Drugs
If ever there were an herb that puts existential fear into the bottom line of pharmaceutical companies, it’s turmeric. Turmeric is one the most thoroughly researched plants in existence today. Its medicinal properties and components (primarily curcumin) have been the subject of over 12,000 peer-reviewed and published biomedical studies. In fact, our five-year-long research project on this sacred plant has…
New Program Helps Pediatricians Prescribe Kindness
When parents take their children to a pediatrician for a wellness check, they expect to get reports on their children’s healthy development—if they’re growing properly, eating and sleeping well, or in need of vaccines. They probably don’t expect to get a prescription for kindness. But at Senders Pediatrics, a private practice in Cleveland and one…
Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes Lowered if You Start Eating Before 8:30 AM
Researchers may have found a new way to reduce risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. According to a study recently presented by the Northwestern University in Chicago, people who start eating before 8:30 a.m. had lower blood sugar levels and less insulin resistance. These are two risk factors that could help to reduce the incidence…
Tips To Bring Fewer Chemicals Home From the Grocery Store
A grocery store is a wonderful place: thousands of ingredients and products at your fingertips available to combine, cook, and eat. However, that choice can be overwhelming: While shoppers in the 1970s chose from a mere 9,000 products, shoppers today choose from more than 47,000. Selecting food that is clean and healthy for you and…
Reflux: Too Much or Not Enough Stomach Acid?
It used to be common knowledge that indigestion or heartburn was a sign of dietary indiscretion. Taking an antacid was the typical means of treatment. If the heartburn sufferer was ahead of the game, he or she would avoid suspect foods or take a natural remedy to improve digestive function. Now, a pharmaceutical drug is…
COVID-19 Is Evolving but so Are Our Antibodies
The emergence of “variants of concern” has raised questions about our long-term immunity to COVID-19. Will the antibodies we make after being infected with or vaccinated against the dominant lineage, called D614G, protect us against future viral variants? To answer this question, scientists have been examining how our antibody responses to this coronavirus develop over time. Several…
Allowing Ourselves to Feel Joy
I’ve come to realize that most of us don’t allow ourselves to feel joy most days. Think about your past week: Did you experience anything joyful and wondrous? Or was your week marked by routine, busyness, and the stress of doing doing doing? If you felt joy and wonder daily, you’re likely the exception. Most…
Say Farewell to Sunk Costs
I can’t tell you how many hours I spent laboring over the decision of whether or not to leave the practice of law, but it had to be in the hundreds. And most of that time was wasted. Don’t get me wrong, there were some important issues I had to work through in order to…
New York’s Liberty Pole
In the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War, Boston wasn’t the only scene of intense friction between British soldiers and American colonials. Imperial troops had likewise been stationed in New York. It’s a truism in history that occupying armies, whatever their original intentions, eventually breed resentment from the locals. While Boston had its…
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