Oxygen is life. Sleep apnea deprives your brain of this critical nutrient dozens of times a night. Gasping for precious air, it’s like drowning in your sleep. And it isn’t pretty. (Note: The videos below and in the link that follows may be upsetting to some.) And lest you think apnea is something that only […]
General Health
From the Archives: Timing Is Everything – Even When Sleeping
Updated from the October 15, 2015 original post We’ve talked before about the relationship between sleep and good health – and how it’s not just the quantity of sleep that counts but the quality of that sleep. That quality, it turns out, may be affected by the timing of your sleep. So suggests research out […]
A New Must-Read: The Case Against Sugar
You’ve got to read Gary Taubes’ new book, The Case Against Sugar. As the title suggests, Taubes’ purpose is to present the case against sugar – both sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup – as the principal cause of the chronic diseases that are most likely to kill us, or at least accelerate our demise, in […]
Drugs vs. Lifestyle, Symptoms vs. Causes
Statin use has skyrocketed through recent years. We’re at the point now where about 1 in 4 adults take this type of drug, and new guidelines from the US Preventive Services Task force would jack that number up even higher. Now, they’re saying that even if you have no signs, symptoms, or history of cardiovascular […]
Breastfeeding Causes Cavities? Actually, It May Protect Against Decay
There are plenty of reasons why breastfeeding matters, starting with the basic fact that it’s naturally our first food. Just as we weren’t designed to eat the hyper-processed junk that gets passed off as food in your local grocery store, we weren’t designed to thrive on manufactured formula and pap through our first years of […]
Too Much Radiation: Ways of Controlling EMF Exposure
Since the start of the Industrial Age, we humans have transformed our environment more radically than our distant ancestors might even have been able to dream. In many ways, this has been for the good. It’s increased democracy and raised standards of living around the world. But any achievement also comes with costs. Industrial practices […]
Enjoy Your Holiday Desserts with Your Dentist’s Blessing
Candy canes. Cookies. Fruitcake. Fudge. Mulled cider or wine. Egg nog. All of the most conspicuous traditional holiday treats seem to be sugar bombs. Yet who can imagine the holiday season without them? It just wouldn’t feel like Christmas – or any of the other winter holidays and observations – without the traditional foods we […]
Timing Is Everything – Even When Sleeping
We’ve talked before about the relationship between sleep and good health – and how it’s not just the quantity of sleep that counts but the quality of that sleep. That quality, it turns out, may be affected by the timing of your sleep. So suggests a new study out of Washington State University. The study, […]