At the farmer’s market last week one of my favorite farmers who grows watercress, bananas and avocados asked me a medical question. She wondered if I knew anything about a drug her dentist gave her called Perio Med®. I hadn’t heard of it but she said it’s an oral treatment to strengthen her teeth. I had just finished my Caring for Your Teeth and Gums Module for Future Health Now! so I knew she was taking …

Just when you thought there were no more Superheros. When business, government, sports and entertainment have all let you down – along comes LXD, The Legend of Extraordinary Dancers.

I used to be a dancer and I love to dance more than I love to watch dance. But LXD changed all that for me. If you want to get your adrenalin going just by watching dance, look no further. If you want to meet a generation of young people who …

People often tell me about the pressure they feel from doctors to take statin drug medication for their cholesterol. The minute their blood test is above 220, their doctors scare them into taking drugs saying they can get a heart attack if they don’t. Then every chest pain or feeling of tiredness sends them into a panic.

There is so much wrong with this black-and-white approach to cholesterol, that it’s hard to know where to being. So I’ll give you some facts in point form.

1.) In 1913 a Russian study found that rabbits fed cholesterol developed yellow plaque in their arteries. However, the cholesterol they were fed was rancid and …

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People always want to know what supplements I recommend for various conditions. Because our health care is entrenched in the allopathic model, most people think that a disease or a disease symptom can be treated with a drug or a vitamin. But that’s far from the truth.

In over thirty years of practicing natural medicine I’ve learned that health is about taking responsibility for your lifestyle and employing commonsense health strategies on a daily basis. You can’t undo a lifetime of dietary abuse overnight with drugs or …

Allopathic medicine is most useful for emergency procedures, surgery and diagnosis. I’d like to give you some tips and strategies for dealing with the side effects of diagnostic medical testing. Let’s talk about cystoscopy and catherization.

Cystoscopy

A cystoscope is a medical instrument used to examine the lining of the bladder and urethra. The examination is generally done using a topical anesthetic to numb the lining of the …

I know this title might make you think that I’ll offer you a list of supplements to take with you to the hospital. Maybe I’ll do that in a future blog. But today I want to give you a tip from a friend on the best way to survive your hospital stay.

What he did was keep a journal. That’s right. Turn your stay into a novel with the characters being everyone who walks into your room.

Whenever someone comes into your room, be it the janitor, doctor, candy striper, nurse, TV repairman or the food service person, introduce yourself and ask for …

My desire to share information with you about a safe weight loss program was spurred by a recent article on Medscape.com called The Evolution of Obesity Therapies: New Applications for Existing Drugs. It seems that there have been so many long-term complications with obesity surgery (where the stomach is mostly removed) that the pendulum is swinging back to drugs and combinations of drugs. Rather than go down the road of Fen-Phen again, with heart failure and death as a complication, let me introduce you to my associate in Hallmark-Dean Labs, Danna Hallmark ND.

Danna has developed a new weight loss program. Actually, there is …

Many people ask how I came up with my “handle” The Doctor of the Future”. I owe it all to my friend, Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a cardiologist, certified nutrition specialist, certified bioenergetic psychotherapist and anti-aging specialist. When Dr. Sinatra first met me he immediately called me the doctor of the future because he was very impressed that I had both an MD and an ND degree. I was very impressed with his credentials as well!

Dr. Sinatra greatly respects Naturopathic Medicine. His son Drew is a Naturopath and they have great discussions about the importance of natural approaches to …

Here’s an interesting story from a lady farmer about her first experience with magnesium.

“We had just started farming when I found a cow down and looking dead. The vet said “Just watch and you will see something weird.” He proceeded to give the cow a shot of magnesium. She literally jumped off the needle and took off. We call this ‘grass tetany’ and it happens in the spring when the grass first comes up. That grass seems to have less magnesium. I immediately thought this could probably happen to people and I had the doctor test me for magnesium and it was low!!!”

I wrote about grass tetany in The Magnesium Miracle. Here’s an …

On Wednesday June 16, 2010 I wrote a blog called “Why Kill Your Stomach Acid.” And I promised to explain more about heartburn and GERD and got lots of encouragement from people to do that.

One reader told me her story.

“I took Tagamet, then Prilosec, then Prevacid over a period of 25 years. Finally an acupuncturist helped me stop the drugs during an anxious six months, since my whole system had been geared by then to the drugs. He explained that I had still had reflux and had developed irregular, straining bowel movements because …