This is the best time to be alive, if you want to live to a very old age: although life expectancy has risen more slowly in recent years, it is still increasing. At age 65, you can expect to live another 18 years on average. If you reach age 80, you can expect an...
A study from the University of British Columbia shows that the size of the hippocampus appears to increase with regular aerobic exercise. The hippocampus is the area of the brain dealing with verbal memory and learning. Other studies suggest that the prefrontal cortex...
Imagine a war scene. Your commander gives you the good news: “To aid your battle, we are calling for a wide-scale bombing of the entire battlefield. Many of you will be killed, but also many of the enemy. The death toll on the enemy will be tremendous. Don’t worry —...
How often when you feel poorly for no apparent reason are you told, “It’s all in your head”? We think of the brain as the location of all thoughts and emotions; actually, even what’s “in your head” isn’t just in your head! You are much more tightly connected to your...
Are you forgetting things more readily these days? Are you stressed? Poor memory and stress go together! Some of this may seem obvious: when you are stressed, you are focused on the current crisis, and your mind is distracted. You’ve probably noticed that when you get...
The Cold War, where schools frequently practiced nuclear bomb raid drills and fears of nuclear holocaust were prevalent. Fears of the “population explosion” bringing on worldwide famines and devastation. Fears of Global Warming destroying our world as we know it. …and...
Coronavirus worries have gripped our society. People feel helpless to fight against an invisible enemy. But this virus, as all viruses, is no match for a healthy immune system! This virus, any future permutations of it, and all other viruses can and will be handled by...
There is something unique about cancer, something that makes it a very special challenge. Cancer is not an external invader. It is not a physical breakdown of normal body mechanisms. You can’t catch it from someone else, no matter how far advanced the cancer is in the...
Have you ever described bad news as a “kick in the gut”? Or felt a wave of nausea when you got shocked with something you didn’t expect? How about “butterflies in your stomach” when nervous? Your brain and gut talk to each other — a lot. If you are under stress, your...
If your car has an RPM gauge, you know that there is a red zone indicating that you have accelerated the engine to dangerous levels. Your immune system has such a gauge — inflammation. Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system is trying too hard and starts...
New research keeps coming out regarding new techniques to combat cancer. These techniques are trending away from the highly destructive traditional approaches of chemotherapy and radiation, which produce a negative environment for the whole body, and towards...
Interested in living a healthy, active life to age 100? Some places in the world have high concentrations of people who are doing just that. And those areas have something in common: a plant-based diet. In Okinawa, Japan, over 90% of their traditional diet is plant...
If you don’t feel you can make it through the day without caffeine, if you are taking over-the-counter medicines, or if you are taking anti-anxiety drugs, you are not alone. Even if you are in the minority that doesn’t medicate to keep going each day, you might still...
Cancer is a response. It doesn’t simply pick a victim and attack; rather, it happens when certain factors promote it. We talk about cancer “risk” by compiling statistics of known cases, but no matter your cancer “risk”, you can always reduce it. One belief in the...
Lutein (and its companion zeaxanthin) is best known for promoting eye health. It is a “carotenoid” which is found in plants, and typically lacking in the standard American diet, as Americans only average one-sixth of the amount needed to reduce risk of certain eye...
The brain uses as much as 50% of your body’s available sugar. Thinking and memory functions are very demanding, requiring correct sugar levels to be effective. When blood sugar drops too low, neurons in the brain can’t communicate. Low enough levels can cause an...
I just saw a patient I’ve been treating for four years. Her original diagnosis was breast cancer and she did not want to do conventional treatment but wanted her body to heal naturally. So she came to Total Health Institute to start on our comprehensive teaching and...
Hair skin and nails are non-essential tissue. I understand to some of you they’re very essential but in the big scheme of health and healing when the body is going through healing changes it does not divert energy towards non-essential tissues. If your body only has...
I saw a patient the other day his diagnosis was stage III brain cancer and he had been on the program for approximately three months. He wanted to know if he was ready to go back to work which was physical lifting and manual labor. I said how do you feel energy wise?...
A patient was recently in for a visit and she shared her story. She started with what appeared to be a bladder infection. Her symptoms were burning with urination and more excessive urination. So she started drinking much more water and after approximately one week it...
