Radiant Health Blog
How a Longer Life Can Be a Healthier Life: Diet, Telomeres & Radiant Health
“Diet” can be a real stumbling block of a word for some people. It easily conjures ideas of extremes: no carbs, slashed calories, overreliance on allegedly fat-burning “superfoods,” and the like. People often talk about it as a temporary thing – something you do to...
Chelation Therapy for Detox & Overall Health & Wellness
Your body is a self-regulating organism. It’s constantly working to maintain the condition of health – so it can go on going on. When you encounter harmful substances – a virus, say, or environmental toxins – mechanisms for fighting or clearing them kick into high...
Skimping on Sleep? Shortchanging Your Health
A Gallup poll published late last year revealed what Americans think are the biggest health problems we face. To probably no one’s surprise, the top two dealt with costs and access. The third – thanks to incessant news coverage yet no immediate threat of an outbreak –...
The Facts on Lyme
Once upon a time, Lyme disease was considered an east coast thing – and something you could only get from hiking in the woods (as if ticks – the bugs whose bite causes Lyme – never ventured elsewhere). Once upon a time, it was thought that a bulls-eye rash was the...
Your Best Source of Nutrients? Real Food!
Supplements are an invaluable source of preventive medicine and treatments for disease, and they are an integral part of the individualized nutritional programs we offer our patients. But the centerpiece of wellness and your first choice for radiant health should be a...
When Tech & Food Collide…
Technology is meant to make our lives easier and presumably more enjoyable. It's not just things like smartphones and GPS. For instance, advances in machinery and ag sciences have made it easier and quicker for farmers to plant, grow and harvest foods. We can feed...
Obesity, Inflammation & Cancer
Research recently published in the Lancet offers another reason to shed excess fat: to possibly reduce your cancer risk. The large study observed the health changes of 5.24 million British adults and found that a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with 17...
Lovely Little Ways to Detox Every Day
Most people think of a detox as a fortnight of misery, consisting of noxious liquids and starvation – something only to be endured after the excess of the holidays. But the truth is, all of us need to detox to some degree on a consistent basis. At this point in...
Case Un-Closed: A Role for Nutritional Supplements
The media had a field day with it, but you couldn’t be blamed for missing the news. It appeared right in the middle of last holiday season, after all: the latest declaration that nutritional supplements are worthless, possibly even (gasp!) dangerous. In a commentary...