What if your memory was twenty as powerful and you were twenty times as creative?

(estimated reading time: twelve minutes)   According to many neuroscientists and researchers who study the human brain, we are using less than five percent of our mind’s potential.  What if this was not only true, but you could find a … Continue reading

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The “spontaneous” remission of “incurable” cancer

Many people are unaware of the thousands of cases of cancers reported to have completely resolved and disappeared without any traditional medical curative therapy being involved.  This number is based on the published reports in the medical literature that are … Continue reading

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The frustrations of long waits in a physician’s office

A word of warning: this article is much longer than usual. Recently my nephew, Tim, who is a senior in high school, asked me for help on one of his school projects.  He was asked to select a frustrating situation … Continue reading

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Dealing with overweight. Part 13: Surgical options

Surgery always carries with it some risk.  The risk of anesthesia is fairly minimal, but it is not zero.  In addition, any time you must cut healthy tissue, you run the risk of infection and other complications that go along … Continue reading

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The much maligned placebo effect.

What has been called “the placebo effect” is an example of the awesome power of the human mind that is usually misunderstood and greatly under-appreciated.  The misunderstanding about its potential value may be due to the disruptive role it is … Continue reading

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Dealing with overweight. Part 12: Weight loss medications

It is very difficult to use medications effectively, but if you learn how to use them well, they can be very helpful.  To use them to their best potential, you must carefully select appropriate people that might benefit, the prescriber … Continue reading

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Dealing with overweight. Part 11: Mysterious emotions

I see a certain pattern over and over as people ask me for help losing weight and we begin working towards this goal.  I don’t completely understand it and much about it is mysterious, indeed.  It is not the most … Continue reading

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What if I had just one more day to live?

I remember reading something, a year or two ago, that raised the question:  “What if you had just twenty four hours left on this earth and you knew it beyond any doubt?  And what if you also somehow had the … Continue reading

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Dealing with overweight. Part 10: The magic of proteins.

If there was such a thing as a miracle nutrient in our food, it would be protein.  Protein is what our DNA primarily uses to construct our body, to maintain it and to modify its form and functions according to … Continue reading

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Dealing with overweight. Part 9: Is a high fat diet really a problem?

The short answer is almost always, yes.  One of the biggest problems with fat in the foods we eat is its very high caloric density.  This means that gram for gram, fat is over twice as many calories as either … Continue reading

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