Celebrated on the last Monday in May each year, Memorial Day is an opportunity for all Americans to remember those who died in active military service. Such a solemn occasion prompts us to publish a schedule for our office for the days leading up to and including Memorial Day. That holiday schedule begins with an…
Recognizing a cause’s milestones by designating it as a weeklong or monthlong observation usually falls into one of two categories. May 6 through 12, for example, was National Nurses Week — a weeklong celebration of all things related to nurses and the nursing profession. The other category focuses on awareness, in this case, with the entire month…
Doctors Sunny Raleigh and Tamara Kurmanalieva recently returned from a conference in Colorado focused on Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) and related conditions, originally organized by Larry Afrin, MD (Armonk Integrative Medicine, Armonk, New York) and Mark Renneker, MD (Univ. of California San Francisco) as a meeting of the minds. A select group of doctors and other health…
Restoration Healthcare is hosting a three-day seminar Oct. 5 through 7 that offers healthcare patients and medical professionals alike the tools they need to make changes in their lifestyles and habits for greater and long-term emotional and physical health. Master the Power of Letting Go is a weekend seminar conducted by a pair of licensedSedona Method…
No doubt about it, bone broth is trending. Bone broth carts (a.k.a. Brodo carts) and counters are popping up all across the country to serve it, and you can find plenty of websites touting its health benefits. If you listen to the dialogue, you might think bone broth could cure everything from the common cold…
Influenza (a.k.a., the “flu”) is a serious and sometimes deadly illness, as is evident in the recent deaths of a 10-year-old hockey player in New Canaan, Conn.; 21-year-old fitness enthusiast in Latrobe, Penn.; and a 40-year-old marathon-running mother of three in San Jose, Calif. (as well as 73 other people in California at the time…
Melatonin is often referred to as the “Dracula of Hormones,” because it only comes out at night. It is a hormone that helps you sleep by synchronizing your sleep cycle with the rising and setting of the sun. As the sun begins to set, your pineal gland (a pea-sized gland just above the middle of…
Over the years, we have done an amazing job of combating infection in developed countries through sanitization, hygiene, vaccinations, and antibiotics. The problem is that the bacteria and viruses keep popping back up stronger and more resistant to our growing arsenal of vaccines and pharmaceutical medications. Antibacterial and antiviral agents have numerous limitations, including the…
What does one’s gut have to do with autism? Plenty. Let’s start with a study published in 2014 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) entitled “The Familial Risk of Autism.” Prior to this study, doctors thought autism was about 80 to 90 percent genetic, with environmental factors contributing only 10 to 20…
Over the past year, we’ve been following developments regarding attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act of 2010. On the day President Trump was inaugurated, we published “Making Sense of Health Insurance in the Trump Era,” in which we highlighted some of the successes of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and explained Trump’s…