How many medications are you taking? Do you need all of them? If there was a way to fix a medical issue without medication, would you be willing to do it? In general, we tend to want a quick fix and to move on. A medicine, whether prescription or over the counter, can...

Are you too old to start exercising?

Let’s face it.  The odds seem to be stacked against us.  We have kids to get to after-school activities and don’t have time.  We’re flat out tired.  Our joints ache.  Our mobility isn’t what it used to be.  We are taking 11 pills in...

Remember the shock you felt when your grandmother pulled out her dentures for the first time in front of you?  That kind of full body shake of horror and bewilderment?!  Well, prepare yourself, because I’m about to shock you on that level.  I hope you’re sitting down…...

My dad had a triple bypass when I was a first-year medical student, or M1 as we call it.  I remember the months leading up to the day.  My father was (and still is) a big hunter and I remember us walking through the woods and he’d have to stop, as he said, ‘to catch hi...