Over and over again, one of my favorite authors, Reinhold Niebuhr, has written that humans are incapable of perfect love. Yet, in spite of this fact, we perpetually try to fashion a perfect world from that which is inherently imperfect.…
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TOTAL DRUG LEGALIZATION: A MORAL CHOICE IN AN IMMORAL SOCIETY?
Tagged with: healthy living, libertarianism, lifestyle, morality, society
Posted in Medical, Opinion
Posted in Medical, Opinion
THE MICROBIOME: THE BENEFITS OF BACTERIA
To fully embrace human health and longevity, one must also embrace the benefits of bacteria. Consider this: there are more alien cells in your body than human cells. No, this does not mean that you are an extraterrestrial, but it…
THE TRUTH ABOUT VACCINES
In my medical opinion, the truth about vaccines is this: there is sufficient data that enables any rational person to exercise their free will and decide not to be vaccinated or to refuse particular vaccinations for their children. My wife,…
THE BENEFITS OF SLEEP
The benefits of sleep in supporting and maintaining overall health is undisputed. Sufficient sleep aids in healing, improves mood, decreases the level of stress hormones in the body, facilitates learning and memory, and also increases alertness (obviously) and productivity during…
WHY DIETS FAIL
Quite simply, dieters fail because the human body is not designed for dieting. Our bodies need calories for fuel, and physiologically, voluntary calorie restriction is a direct threat to this natural self-preserving mechanism. Our bodies embrace the life-sustaining sustenance in…
PLAN AHEAD FOR HEALTHY LIVING
Now that the first installment of Obamacare has been rolled out, we have all been subjected to the grand mess it is turning out to be. Even if we assume (in a fantasy) that everyone behind government-mandated health care is…
Tagged with: common sense, healthy living, lifestyle, obamacare
Posted in Current Events, Health, Medical, Opinion
Posted in Current Events, Health, Medical, Opinion
FEAR versus REALITY: THE FLU SHOT DANGERS
As a practicing physician, have I ever elected to receive the annual flu shot? Never. Has an employer, hospital or office ever given me (or my physician peers) an informed medical talk on all the flu shot dangers? Never. Have…
CAUSE AND EFFECT
During one of my frequent moments of reflection recently, it dawned upon me that we live in an age where the common citizen suffers from a mental disorder of “global acceptance”—people overwhelmingly lay down and accept the common explanations for…
THE DANGERS OF SUGAR
What are the dangers of sugar, and if fruits contain mostly sugar, doesn’t that make them bad as well? I flirted with calling this post “The Greatest Fat Loss Secret of All-Time, Part II” but in reality, this article has…
THE GREATEST FAT LOSS SECRET OF ALL-TIME
I won’t bait you by making you read all the way to the end of the article or, even worse, force you to pay me a sum to “reveal the magic secret.” So here is the greatest fat loss secret…
