Farm to Table- An Inconvenient Truth
I am a big proponent of farm to table eating. I am also fortunate to live in an area where Organic Farming has been a way of life for more than 3 centuries. Robert Rodale who initially repopularized the concept in the 70’s started his magazine within a few miles of where I grew up.
On Thanksgiving
I don’t write something new every Thanksgiving but this is a very important one for me. First let me thank you for spending a little of your most valuable asset with me: your time. They say we limit ourselves and that we can be or do or have anything. I think time is the thing
True Fitness and Personal Bias For My Friends Over 40 Part 2
Ok we visited the dream world and the real world in Part 1. Now let’s get to some specifics. If you are middle aged and American, or at least “Western” you probably are overweight. I hope you are not but this is a statistical reality. Another statistical reality is you probably sit too much. When
True Fitness and Personal Bias for My Friends Over 40 Part 1
Well my friend it’s time to visit the fitness question again. If you are familiar with my blogs in the past I have weighed in on the “best” kinds of exercises often. The true answer to the “best “question is always “It depends on what you are trying to achieve!” As a brief review, stuff
How to Roast Your Own Coffee for the Best Cup Ever
I never thought about roasting my own coffee until recently. Two circumstances came together to result in a happy little experiment that became a more regular habit. The first was economics, more specifically the need to save some money! Nothing like having your income curtailed suddenly to get the creative juices going. The second was
Revisionist History
It is always interesting to look back at what you were taught in High School in a new light. For instance, I can remember in 7th grade one of our teachers teaching directly out of a book about 2 slave owners. One was evil bad and mistreated his slaves. The other was kind and benevolent
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Market
Way back in 2002 I created my own line of supplements designed by me and created to my own specific specifications. They were available only through my office initially and then a year and a half later on line as well. The initial success was phenomenal and far beyond what I thought would happen. I
What I Learned When I was Fired
One of the biggest questions I have gotten from you, my dear friends is, “How did this happen?!” And the corollary, ” Why did you sell your business?!” I appreciate the interest and will address those things within the confines of the current legalities in the blog following this one. What I do not want
The Importance of Being Earnest- From Aha to OH Shit!
I meet and speak to a lot of people about the aging process. Lots of people have noticed I look younger than the number of birthdays I count. Even better is it seems like the older I get the younger I look. But all is not as it seems and I promised you I would
Does Your Body Store Trauma?
Over the years I have been exposed to many kinds of healers. Some of them are like me, science based. Others are far out there using nothing but intuition. I have to be a little skeptical about this approach although I do not discount it completely. I have always found that it’s awfully easy to
Why Dr. Dave’s Best Has Nothing To Do With Dr Dave Woynarowski
Ok the first thing I need to make clear to you and will undoubtedly repeat more than once in the coming months is this: On September 29th 2016 BioStem Technologies, the company that purchased certain assets of Dr Dave’s Best the year before, elected to fire me. So as of that date anything that comes
Obese Moms shorten Babies’ Lives!
We have a long way to go with the understanding of what happens in the uterus during pregnancy. But one thing is for sure, the uterus and intrauterine environment are major determinants of a baby’s health. A recent study has shown a close correlation between maternal weight and telomere length. This is very intriguing because
Poop Transplants for Weight Loss
I kid you not, this is a thing! At least in the minds of some. Several years back I wrote a joking blog post entitled something like “I want a date with Dr Suzanne Gundakunst”. I teased the good doctor about her hypothesis that gut bacteria were responsible for making people fat. Well it turns
Michael Jackson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Prince-In Search of the Perfect Pain Med
Having a long experience in taking care of sick dead and dying people as well as trying to preserve health and wellness, I have seen a lot of changes in the medical field. At the risk of sounding dated, most of them are not particularly good. Some of them are really nonsensical. So recently when
The Darwin Award for Supplements goes to the makers of Telovite
There is not law or limit on capitalism. There are no police on the internet. And finally you cannot apparently be penalized for abject stupidity although honestly we can always hope that Darwin was right. In case you don’t know the Darwin Awards are awarded every year in ongoing fashion to some unfortunate individuals who
Artificial Sweetners and Your Health- I Might have Been Wrong about this One!
Over the past decade I have been ridiculed on several occasions for my perceived ambivalence about artificial sweeteners. My stance on them has been as follows: “If they keep you away from excess sugar then I have no problem with their occasional use.” The advent of Stevia and its cousins in the past few years
More on Telomeres Telomerase Supplements and Cancer
I have written a ton on these topics before and I refer you to here for more background. I’m guessing you already know this, but I’ll repeat it anyways. Telomeres are small segments of DNA at the end of every chromosome. They function like biologic time clocks determining when a cell will die. They are
The Ketogenic Diet Part 5 What I learned and what you should know!
The best way for me to cover all the stuff I want to tell you is in simple bullet point form and that is what I am going to do. But first let me say one thing that is critical: If you are a healthy person this diet is not going to pose any serious
The Ketogenic Diet Part 4 The results and Why I Stopped Taking my Precious Fish Oil!!
Here are the specific numbers I obtained on the various days after the 2 day induction I described in Part 3 of this series. I will be starting the numbering series with #1 which was the first day AFTER the induction. In other words this is the first day of the 8 day routine I
The Ketogenic Diet Part 3 How I did it
Ok first if you have not read the first 2 blogs please do so because a lot of info is covered that you need to know: Part 1 and Part 2. Now here is what I did. I actually went on the “diet” for a total of 10 days with 8 of them being severely
The Ketogenic Diet Part 2 Some Whats and Whys
Ok today I am going to get into more detail and real experiences for you. I feel compelled to tell you that many other people including some famous and not so famous doctors have endorsed the Ketogenic Diet in its various forms. The Calorie Restricted Ketogenic Diet is very specific in its application. It is