When most patients visit their allopathic doctor, the time is spent trying to quickly arrive at a diagnosis which the physician can use to prescribe a treatment. In our Western medical system, this treatment usually consists of a medication, a procedure, or a surgery. While these treatments are certainly necessary and helpful in some cases, […]
My kids are proud that their great-great-great uncle (on my wife’s side) was a physician and professor who helped invent the sphygmomanometer, also known as the uncomfortable blood pressure cuff that you experience when you go to your doctor’s office for a check up. This relative was one of the many physicians and scientists who […]
Have you ever taken time to consider the amazing diversity of bacteria that live inside of you? The Human Food Project and the American Gut Project are trying to map our inner ecosystem or microbiome (the trillions of bacteria that we carry in and on our bodies, out numbering our cells by a factor of […]