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February 02, 2014 Non-Celiac Wheat Sensitivity Arrives Reference:  Scientific American  Feb 2014, British Medical Journal Everyone knows about gluten sensitivity these days.  It’s sort of the rage.  Gluten-free this and that is showing up on menus.  I got a gluten-free hamburger at a restaurant (just a naked hamburger and a slice of tomato.  No bun).  Churches… Continue reading Non Celiac Wheat Sensitivity Arrives

February 01, 2014 Find Me a Cold  Spot for Depression   Reference  The Jungle Effect by Daphne Miller   It’s February in just about the coldest winter in decades.  We’ve been cooped up forever and are all just feeling strung out.  The “mid-winter blahs” are upon all of us.  You wouldn’t be faulted for claiming yourself to be a… Continue reading Find me a Cold Spot for Depression

January 27, 2014 Sugar is Really, Really Bad! Reference:  JAMA Feb 4th, 2014 How bad?   Just awful, and at small amounts.  Quanhe Yang at the CDC did a pretty exhaustive epidemiological study is from our national nutrition study called NHANES.   In that study, there are some 31,000 statistically random folks from every part of America who… Continue reading Sugar is Really, Really Bad!

January 20, 2014Vitamin D Gets a DownshiftReference:  Neal Binkley in JCEM What a life!  At least 28.9 hours a week on the beach in Hawaii.   Got any volunteers this time of year in Wisconsin?  That’s who Neal Binkley and Bruce Hollis went looking for to investigate what Vitamin D level do we get in the most… Continue reading Vitamin D Gets a Downshift

January 14, 2014Strontium: Bony Builder for Icy January DaysReference: Meunier NEJM, COMB Study Genuis 2012 Have you ever heard of strontium? Likely not, though you may have used it. It used to be about 10% of the toothpaste Sensodyne for sensitive teeth. You naturally eat about 1-2 mg a day of the stuff, and you… Continue reading Strontium: Bony Builder for Icy January Days

January 07, 2014 Animals are Getting Fat Too   Reference  UAB Reporter   You thought it was just us humans getting fat?  Well, in the last 50 years, we have certainly been victims of a widespread epidemic of obesity. We have blamed it on our diets, our laziness, our food, vending machines, school lunch programs, soda size, white… Continue reading Animals are Getting Fat Too

January 06, 2014 Sleep is Brain Detox Reference: Science Oct 2013 If you don’t get enough sleep, how do you feel? Lousy. Cranky, irritable, can’t remember….to name a few of the consequences of inadequate sleep. We know sleep appears to consolidate memory, but it might do something else even more important: detox. That’s what this… Continue reading Sleep is Your Brain on Detox

December 29, 2013 Leptin and Insulin – the Obesity Dance   Make Your New Years Resolution “Avoid Sugar” and Fix your Leptin   Reference:  Fat Chance by Lustig  I love this book!  Lustig is a very accomplished and respected Pediatric Endocrinologist.  His Youtube lecture on sugar called Bitter Truth has gone viral and has over 4 million hits.   His book Fat… Continue reading Leptin and Insulin – the Obesity Dance

December 22, 2013 “Happy” Holidays – The Evidence   Reference: Sonya Lyobomirsky and “The Myths of Happiness”   Not everyone is exactly happy for the holidays.  In fact, they may be a bit of a minefield for many.  What should make you happy, but doesn’t, and what shouldn’t make you happy, but does.  That’s the subtitle of… Continue reading Not Everyone is Happy for the Holidays

December 16, 2013 Pesticides – Why You Can’t Lose Weight   Reference:  Metametrix Clinical Learning Center   Notice that you can’t lose that weight?  Felt fat and bulgy, exercising like crazy, eating like a bird, and can’t lose weight?  Are you going crazy?  Have the laws of thermodynamics been suspended?  What’s up?  Ever considered that your body is… Continue reading Persistent Pesticides: Why You Can’t Lose Weight