What is Gastroesophageal Reflux? Gastroesophageal reflux, also known by the acronym GERD, is when the stomach acid starts to backflow from the stomach into the esophagus. Almost everyone has experienced gastric reflux at one point in their life. Remember that time you ate one too many hot dogs at your friend’s barbecue? You felt like […]
What’s Causing Your Fatigue: Pt. 2 – Hidden Viruses
Could Your Chronic Illness Be a Masked Infection? We’ve all had a viral infection. It can be as mild as a rhinovirus that causes an annoying runny nose. It can be as severe as the Influenza virus, which can put you in bed for three weeks with coughing and weakness. The type of viruses I […]
What’s Causing Your Fatigue: Pt. 1 – Hidden Infections
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia are two of the most complex medical conditions that a patient can live with or that a doctor can face. Fatigue is a vague complaint to a physician because so many illnesses can present this symptom. Chronic generalized pain is also a diagnostic dilemma that sets patients off running to neurologists […]
Nutrition for Chronic Fatigue: Antioxidants = Pro-Vitality
I recently presented in my “Medical Library” series The Color Code by James Joseph, Daniel Nadeau, and Anne Underwood. The premise of the book is that eating from a plate filled with colorful fruits and vegetables is the way to optimum health. It sounds like advice your grandma would give you, and you wouldn’t need […]
The Best Probiotic for Your Candida
[updated April 2019] Probiotics are acknowledged as very healthy for anyone – but for Candida patients, they are especially important to repopulate the gut immune system with healthy bacteria. Unfortunately, probiotics are the wild west of medicine – no one seems to be able to say with authority which ones are effective and which ones […]
“I Beat Candida, So Can You!” – Our Own Nurse’s Story
My nurse Mildred Weaver has been working at our practice for over 20 years. My patients know her as this lovely, kind person with a soft touch when it comes to giving shots, taking blood or putting in an IV. She’s also well-versed in nutrition, as she worked for Dr. Robert Atkins in the late […]
Vitamin C & Chronic Fatigue
Vitamin C Is Essential for Human Health. Period. A severe deficiency of Vitamin C leads to scurvy, which is a fatal disease, and once we don’t hear about it much these days. Historically, scurvy was the disease of sailors and sea travel. Back in the day, many sailors on long voyages would die of this […]
Tired and Washed Out? Maybe You’re Iron Deficient
True story: a patient of mine in her mid-thirties came to my office complaining she was tired–more tired than she had ever felt in her whole life. I looked at her carefully and, from appearances, nothing seemed wrong. She was an active woman who regularly ran 3 to 5 miles three times a week. She […]
IBS & Candida
What Does Irritable Bowel Syndrome Have to Do With Candida? The classic association of Candida albicans overgrowth in the body is inflammation called vaginitis. Dr. Oz had a recent program showing how a woman’s diet or the medications she takes (for example, antibiotics) can cause the imbalance and overgrowth of Candida. Dr. Oz omitted what […]
Are You Getting Enough Magnesium?
The Benefits of the Epsom Soak In the old days, a farmer who worked his fields all day would come home complaining he was “bone-tired.” He was lucky if his wife fetched for him buckets of hot water to prepare a nice bath filled with Epson salts. The farmer would feel his aches and pains […]