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Beyond food: What else impacts how you feel everyday?
It seems that the 24-hour cycle of sun plays a more significant role in our health than we have ever imagined. If you think that because you do not have insomnia, an abnormal work schedule, sleep apnea, or any other form of sleep disorder that you are safe from the effects of an altered biological clock or circadian rhythm, you’re […]
What happens to ADHD kids after college?
When discussing ADHD, among both the general public and healthcare professionals, you likely encounter two opinions. One can be summarized by a quote I recently saw on Facebook on the subject: “When I was a kid, ADHD was called ‘being a kid’.” The other opinion is generally held by parents with an ADHD child, or adults who suffer from ADHD […]
Drugs: How can children make the right choices?
Last Saturday, my nearly 13 year old daughter Zoe and I took an adventure racing class (ARC) together at the Lifetime Fitness Club we belong to in Montvale, New Jersey. The ARC class is for people who are training for events like the Spartan Race. It applies principles of cross training and very High Intensity Interval Training. It was Zoe’s first […]
From raging to a trickle: The Hormone Story
Here is a question from a dear friend of over 30 years, Meredith: “I am thinking about bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), not for symptoms of menopause, which seems to be starting early for me because I can deal with that, but rather, I have a pretty significant family history of cancer and other diseases, and I hear that BHRT […]
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Fibromyalgia: Top 10 mistakes
Autoimmunity is overlooked or mistreated. Autoimmunity (AI) is the top of the list because it trumps everything else. When your immune system goes out of control, it launches an attack on your body’s tissue. AI has dramatically increased in developed western cultures in recent decades. Fibromyalgia is often left out of the list of autoimmune diagnoses. (Remember, diagnoses are labels, […]