Most people are familiar with the placebo effect: a patient who is given a sugar pill that he thinks is medicine may well receive a therapeutic effect. Scientists believe that the combination of positive belief about a drug or treatment with the nurturing care of a healing professional provides the best possible treatment outcomes. The
When I prescribe diet changes to my patients, the most common objection I get is that their busy schedule is not conducive to healthy eating choices. As a busy professional I can understand how eating healthy might feel like an enormous burden and can be left on the curb due to the numerous demands of
My eczema, whom I thought was my enemy, was actually my friend. It may well have been protecting me from something even worse! This made sense to me and I adopted their “heal your gut’ eating/nutrition guidelines. Here’s my ‘coles notes’ version of what I did: Click Here to read the full article at Be
When you are struggling to make the right food choices, negative feedback from the dinner table every night can push you back to old ways pretty quickly... Click Here to read the full article at the Huffington Post
So much of our health, our happiness, our success and our relationships come down to how well our bodies work. How well the body works depends on three big factors:... Click Here to read the full article at the Huffington Post
There are two types of inflammation -- acute and chronic. Doctors can tell these apart by understanding the history of the inflammation, and by carefully examining the inflammation under their microscope of education and experience... Click Here to read the full article at the Huffington Post
By looking at human physiology, the average age expectancy should be about 90; however, current life expectancy is around 78. While this number continues to rise for women, the facts show that on average, we are leaving about 12 years on the table... Click Here to read the full article at the Huffington Post
Stress -- that feeling you experience when things don't go according to plan, when your boss says that your deadline has been moved to yesterday, or when your child won't stop screaming in the middle of the supermarket aisle...
"Modified milk" is a term used to identify a variety of milk ingredients. It's like the party mix of the milk world; it's got a little bit of everything in it. Milk ingredients can come from any form of chemically modified milk source. What does that mean?... Click Here to read the full article at the
Dr. Christian Turbide is one of Canada’s leading experts in digestive disease… Click Here to read the full article at the Huffington Post
