Radiant Health Blog
From the Archives: Getting “Hormonal” – & Finding Balance Again
Have you ever heard someone apologize for something they said or did when they were “hormonal?” Emotional volatility is just one signal that a person’s hormones may be out of balance. It’s why teenagers are the way they are. They spend years in hormonal chaos as their...
It’s Not the Binge-Watching That May Be Hazardous to Your Health – It’s the Sitting (and Sitting and Sitting and Sitting…)
Who doesn’t like a good binge watch once in a while? To camp out in front of your TV or tablet, nosh, and watch to your heart’s content? Only…if you do a lot of binge-watching, your heart may not be quite so content as you think it is. Recently, a Japanese study in...
Dr. Joe Talks Supplements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pe4RPcXeTo
Yet More Evidence That Fat Isn’t the Problem
Dietary fat has been demonized for so long, the point bears repeating: In truth, fat is not the bad guy – as a couple of recent studies make clear. The first, just published in PLoS Medicine, looked at the effects of fats and carbs on blood glucose and insulin...
About That “Pasta Won’t Make You Fat” Study…
You know how they say that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is? Widely touted as “the best study” to date on pasta consumption and obesity, it was hardly that. As Stanford professor of medicine Dr. Christopher Gardner told Health News Review, The...
How You Feel About Aging May Affect How You Age
Aging is inevitable. Of course, we can do things to prevent or slow down the kind of degeneration people tend to associate with getting older. Think optimizing diet. Think getting enough sleep and exercise. Think treatments such as BHRT and chelation. These – and more...
Mindful Eating May Improve Your Health
Most of the time when we eat, we’re on automatic – not thinking, simply refueling. The exception to the rule comes when we sit down to a fancy meal in a restaurant or a holiday feast like Thanksgiving dinner. Such meals can seem so much more fulfilling – physically,...
Choosing Health Is a Choice You Make Every Day
Some things we take as a matter of faith. The sun will rise tomorrow. The other driver will heed the stop sign and not barrel into the intersection as you’re making a turn. Water will flow when you turn on the tap. And when something you’ve always taken for...
Physical Activity May Lower Your Cancer Risk
When you think about preventing cancer – or at least lowering risk – it’s really easy to get hyper-focused on all the things to avoid: synthetic chemicals, tobacco and other drugs, radiation, and the like. But as we suggested last time, prevention isn’t just about...