Junk Bars…

Dear Reader, Many of the so-called “health” bars out there are bad for you. If you want real power when you need it, you can do a lot better . . . Manufacturers give these bars misleading names like “energy bars,” “power bars,” “protein bars,” or “cereal bars.” But they may as well call them [...]

Easy Chinese Ritual to Stay Young…

How young are your lungs? It’s a question of youthful features because we have great lungpower when we’re young but we lose it with age.

I wish you could see all the things that I’ve seen in my career… If you could see my twenty years of practicing what I call “elective health improvement”… (I had to create the term because no one in medicine seemed to know much about it.)…There’s no doubt in my mind you’d think more about what you could do for your lungpower.

Simple Stretch to Stop Your Back Pain…

Dear Reader, Yesterday a patient had trouble getting into the examination room. When he saw the look of concern on my face, he said, “It’s my sciatica… Sometimes I have trouble getting around…” That was a good reminder for me. Many people with chronic back pain just grin and bear it; swallowing fistfuls of pain [...]

Get Started on This Year’s PACE® Fat Loss Challenge!

Dear Reader, Spring Break and summer fun aren’t far off. To get your body lean, strong, and “bathing suit-ready,” we’re kicking off our second annual PACE® Fat Loss Challenge. The response last year was great to see. Over 800 hundred people signed up for the Challenge. Collectively they shed thousands of pounds of fat and [...]

Sugar Deactivates Gene for Love Life

Dear Reader: I know you know refined sugar is bad… right? Tooth decay diabetes heart disease and all. But did you know it can zap your love life? I just read a study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation showing that high levels of glucose and fructose can deactivate the gene that controls the amount [...]