I believe that medicine’s potential is much more than the version we see in the world today. A doctor should be an educator with the goal of bringing patients to a place of deeper understanding of who they are in the world. To me, medicine is ultimately about self-empowerment through self-knowledge and growth.
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Today, I’d like to share with you an important statistic of which most people are probably not aware. The statistic is: Most American adults are pre-diabetic or diabetic. A full 50% of American adults meet the prediabetic or diabetic diagnostic criteria. This means they have too much sugar in their blood. That 50% number apparently doesn’t include the very… Read on…
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you… I want to start this bulletin with the acknowledgment that life can be extremely difficult, even unresolvable at times. From the personality’s perspective, our eventual annihilation is puzzling enough, but then there are day-to-day challenges that demand so much from us. That’s not to neglect for one second the joy and beauty in life. There… Read on…
Take modern physicians with a grain of salt. Their education is not all-encompassing. How can it be? Modern information is too vast. “A couple of hundred years back, a person who held a Bachelors of Science knew all there is to know in their field. Today, however, someone with a Ph.D. in biology may not… Read on…
Your Good Health Achieving good health is just like achieving anything else worthwhile: effort matters and details matter. The more you can be in alignment, the more likely you will have optimal outcomes. A key step is being clear with yourself on why you want to be healthy. Virtues in Medicine Self-analysis that accompanies illness often leads us to virtue. It can… Read on…
Humans Drink Alcohol. Alcohol sales in the United States have been rising for decades. 2021 US sales were just under $250 billion, and were close to the record sales of 2019. The global alcoholic beverage market size was valued at $1.6 trillion in 2021. It’s not exactly in the top tier occupied by banking, health, telecom, food, and oil… Read on…
A Prize Historically, salt has been a precious commodity. “Not only did salt serve to flavor and preserve food, it made a good antiseptic, which is why the Roman word for these salubrious crystals (sal) is a first cousin to Salus, the goddess of health.” Salt is of the earth. “People who are described as ‘the salt of… Read on…
This old saying refers to “the once-common tradition of saloons in the US providing a ‘free’ lunch to patrons who had purchased at least one drink. Many foods on offer were high in salt, so those who ate them ended up buying a lot of beer.” Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that. You go ahead and enjoy yourself at the saloon. We’re… Read on…
Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body. Most of it is stored in the bones and the teeth. It is carried in the blood and has many important functions in addition to the formation of bone and teeth. It is essential in: In nature, calcium is found primarily in limestone. Limestone is a sedimentary rock,… Read on…
Who amongst us is not captivated by the intrigue and mystery behind the phenomenon of Pyramidal structures on the earth? It is a phenomenon that goes far beyond the famous Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. That’s just the tip of the… Pyramid Phenomenon. Experts estimate there are thousands of pyramids all over the… Read on…
We must not ever, ever, ever stop searching for errors in our theories, even our best ones: the ones that appear settled, which we can’t presently imagine being superseded. — author Al Pittampalli This is the expression of a healthy understanding of science. No number of observations are capable of proving a theory true if the very next observation could… Read on…
