Optimize Your Health Blog
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Optimizing brain, metabolic, hormonal, and whole-body health.
Wise Sleep Solutions
As I mentioned in Sleep Comes First, wise sleep solutions are the first step to solving any health problem related to inflammation or hormonal imbalance, and the first step is a good assessment. Are you sleeping 8-9 hours nightly, including at least 60-120 minutes of...
COLOSTRUM for newborns and … adults?
Imagine a newborn baby, suddenly exposed to the outside world after a completely protected life growing in their mother’s womb. Not entirely on their own, new babies are strengthened to interact with the world by a special food in early breast milk: Colostrum is the...
CreatinG Health with CreatinE
Creatine is probably the most overlooked—yet absolutely essential—supplement to include in any plan focused on getting or staying healthy, especially if you are a vegetarian*. Spoiler alert: you should only read on if you want to be smarter, have better balance,...
Precision Nutrition and Your Multivitamin
When I was first applying my thoughts about nutrition and human physiology to my practice of medicine, it was called “Integrative Medicine''…but I just think it should be called “Medicine!” We did learn physiology in med school, though—must admit—not much about...
No Gym, No Problem
Not having access to a conventional gym needn’t be a barrier to experience the benefits of resistance/strength training. In fact, there are many downsides to most facilities and many upsides to training at home, in a park and so on. One only needs a basic...
Bone Health
We don’t often think about them, but we can’t do anything without them. Our bones pretty much take care of themselves up to the age of “peak bone.” Throughout our lives, our bones are constantly “remodeling” - clearing out the old parts and replacing those with new...
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) & Alzheimer’s Disease
In response to your great suggestions, we’ve decided to address the most frequently mentioned common thread: Hormone Replacement Therapy and Alzheimer’s, Both At and After Menopause. This is a huge topic, we'll piece apart a few threads, pertinent to some recent news...
Move Your Bones
An exercise list for bone health “Structure determines function” is a cliché most of us have heard since as far back as we can remember. As such, we (the scientific community notwithstanding) often accept this as a truism even as it pertains to the human form. But...
Feed Your Bones
A shopping list for bone health Throughout our lives, our bones are working hard to be the best bones possible for the ease, comfort and strength of the entire body. Bone repair and rebuilding is an energy-demanding task that changes in intensity over our lives and...
Heavy Metals Exposure & Assessment
There are various ways to assess your exposure and circulation of heavy metals in both your environment and your body. Things to take into consideration: Infrastructure and Land: Many people find that they have exposure to toxic levels of metals through their home and...
Type 2 Diabetes and the Brain
Did you know that researchers find an utterly clear and repeatedly confirmed connection between eating too much sugar (it’s less than one might think!), keeping too much of it in our blood (happens naturally as we age), and then cluttering up our brain …