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Basal Metabolic Temperature Test

Basal Metabolic Temperature Test

Weight Loss

What is a basal body temperature? (BMT). “Basal” means, “base,” and your basal temperature is your body temperature taken the very first thing in the morning before you’ve gotten out of bed. Once you get out of bed, the movement of your muscles heats up your body, so...
What is Non-Alcoholic Fatty liver Disease?

What is Non-Alcoholic Fatty liver Disease?

Weight Loss

Do I have it & what can I do about it? It is well known that excess alcohol and hepatitis can cause serious liver disease, which can be fatal. What is much less appreciated is that you can have liver disease without the alcohol or viral infection. In fact, it is...
What is C-Reactive-Protein & Why is it Important?

What is C-Reactive-Protein & Why is it Important?

Weight Loss

Doctors perform lab testing to provide valuable additional information to a careful history and examination, in order to better assess a patient’s condition. It is of little value to perform a test unless the doctor has a thorough understanding of the meaning of a...
Progressive High Intensity Interval Training

Progressive High Intensity Interval Training

Weight Loss

EXERCISE TO LIVE Improper exercise is not only a waste of your valuable time, but can cause significant harm to your body, possibly even shortening your lifespan. I have been preaching for years to my patients that aerobic exercise on a prolonged basis is harmful. Now...
Implementing PACE Exercise

Implementing PACE Exercise

Weight Loss

My last blog discussed the benefits of anaerobic exercise, also known as High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). The PACE exercise program developed by Dr. Al Sears is a specific form of High Intensity Interval Training that confers multiple benefits not seen by...
Iodine and Thyroid Function

Iodine and Thyroid Function

Functional Nutrition, Weight Loss

Without iodine, thyroid hormone cannot be formed. Without thyroid hormone we are not born. Low levels of thyroid due to iodine deficiency are the leading cause of preventable mental retardation in the world, called cretinism. Because of the prevalence of iodine...