A few years ago, the Attorney General of New York ordered Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens, and CVS to remove ALL herbal supplements from store shelves. He prematurely claimed that testing showed nearly all of them to be missing the herbs listed on their labels. Really, what do...
Lily was bursting with excitement when she returned for her second visit to my office. “Could those pills you gave me work really fast – I mean, like overnight?” she asked, only half-ready to believe my answer. During Lily’s first appointment, she shared that since her...
Is this you? “My period is like clockwork – it comes every two weeks.” “Seven days of hell, that’s what I call it.” “It's like a crime scene every time I go the bathroom.” You don’t put up with horrible periods because you have some twisted relationship to pain...
Yesterday, I felt like I was gonna burst out of my jeans. I’ve never felt so bloated and miserable without actually being sick. Ladies, you know what I’m talking about here – it was a fat pants day, all the way! And you know what? LOTS of...
Jan sat down across from me with a familiar look on her face. Hope. Resignation. Confusion. Overwhelm. And next to her, in one of those reusable grocery store bags, was a jumble of every health food store supplement she’d bought in the past 6 months, some...
On my morning walk today, the street was littered with little and big branches from a wild snow tornado thing that blew through the city the day before. Every few steps I was kicking away or stepping around fallen pieces of the trees, garbage can...
One of the biggest factors threatening your immune health is fatigue. Do you ever have that dream where you’re running as fast as you can but you’re getting nowhere? Your legs are dragging like cement and every step is a ridiculous effort. When you wake up,...
Staying healthy through a season of cold, flus, and stubborn respiratory viruses doesn’t have to mean staying isolated from people or taking a handful of supplements every day with a wish and a prayer. It can be as simple as pausing throughout the day for...
I love pickled food, and the more sour and vinegar-y, the better. I secretly crave pickled beets, and a salad isn't a salad without them. Sauerkraut? Love it. Especially with a meaty sausage and tangy mustard. Pickled herring was a favorite of my dad's growing up,...
Does the start of a scratchy, sore throat signal a week long misery-fest for you? Time for some bee propolis! Propolis is the sticky goo that bees use to seal up holes in their hives. Lucky for you, propolis has another quality that makes it excellent...