Although not everyone knows about Festivus, I think we can all learn something from Seinfeld’s popularized alternative to Christmas. The first thing that needs attention is that not everyone celebrates a traditional Christmas yet I believe that everyone needs some attention during the “holiday season”. This brings us to the Festivus slogan – “Festivus for the Rest of Us”. Canada…
Over the weekend I attended the largest complimentary and alternative medicine conference in the world. The 21st annual anti-ageing and restorative medicine conference (A4M) hosted hundreds of lectures on many different medical topics, from oncology to endocrinology. This was my second year attending this 4 day event, which provided over 30 hours of lectures. Some of the highlights were lectures…
The process of methylation, even just the word, can bore people half to death, but the truth of the matter is that this little tidbit of seemingly useless information is at the heart of many peoples chronic health concerns. Before tuning out, I would encourage you to read a little further as your future health might be at stake. Biochemistry…
Please don’t tell the British Medical Journal that I republished their article on saturated fat and heart disease but this opinion piece is a fairly nice example of 40 years of dogma around a specific health topic that has been based on absolutely nothing and led us in completely the wrong direction for the last 4 decades. The consumption of…
One of my favourite books to help people understand the importance of their physical and emotional limitations is by a local Vancouver doctor, Gabor Mate MD. This book outlines several different personality types that end up having certain chronic diseases. It’s quite fascinating as Dr Mate brings a lot of clinical experience to his writing. As our bodies start to…
I have always been fascinated by metabolism, mostly because mine is fairly slow. I have to stay pretty busy, eat healthy and try to get my weekly exercise in order to just maintain my weight. The following article might bring a new degree of understanding to the mystery of metabolism. What I think the article is trying to say is…