Health Topics
Changing Your Plate Part V: Dinner
We’ve had quite a few weeks now of meeting real families from my practice who are each, in their own way, making efforts to eat more plants daily. From the Sherman family in Houston who…
The Inside Scoop on Birth Control: What Moms of Young Girls Need to Know
Over the last weeks I have written a series of posts on the back story of birth control. While the availability of birth control options for women was a huge step forwards culturally it has…
The Inside Scoop on Birth Control: Convenience Has Its Price
Last week I went head-on into a trendy topic of “not needing your period.” It all got started with this article that has gained considerable traction in social media forums and was even reposted in…
Gemmotherapy Answers: Women DO Need To Have Periods!
Early in September an article claiming that women did not need a menstrual cycle circulated through multiple social media channels, so I am pretty sure you have seen it at one point or another. Because it…
Living Well Series: Ditching Dairy
The value of removing dairy from our family diet honestly never registered on my radar for the first twelve years of my post cancer health journey. Then, in the summer of 2013, I paid a…
Gemmotherapy Answers: Why Go Plant-Based?
Wouldn’t you like this to be the year that you resolved your seasonal allergies? Or possibly it’s that painful menses that gets in your way each month or chronic headaches? Whatever the symptom, the…
Gemmotherapy Answers: The Stages of Healing REDUX
Last week I explained how chronic symptoms will appear at particular stages in one’s lifetime when the basic functions of cleaning, eliminating and healing are compromised. I called on parents to be aware and responsive…
Gemmotherapy Answers: Detox vs. IVF for Infertility
Last week I shared a story that depicts the classic pharmaceutical treatment spiral that is quite commonplace in women’s healthcare. Since writing that I have received numerous inquiries from women who have stories that are, truthfully,…
Gemmotherapy Answers: Stop the Symptom Suppression
Last month I began a series of posts regarding the connection between menstrual symptoms, birth control and infertility. The last post I shared was about a young lady in her teens that sought me out for help…
Gemmotherapy Answers: Periods Should Not Be Painful
A talk I want you to have with your daughters… Last week I shared some very important information about painful menstrual cycles and endometriosis along with the good news that it is treatable—naturally. I want to follow…
Gemmotherapy Answers: Painful Periods
Last week I shared with you these three beliefs I have in regard to women and their menstrual symptoms whether they happen at 15 or 45 years of age: No woman should suffer with symptoms that…
Menstrual Symptoms: What’s Normal?
I’d like to challenge some ideas you may have about “normal” menstrual symptoms—whether you are 15 or 45. One of the first things I discuss with my female patients is the character of their menstrual…