I changed the picture on my letters to you.
I’m amazed how many of you wrote to me with comments:
“Not trying to be critical but your new appearance makes you look like the caveman on the Geico commercial.”
“Dr. Sears’ Neanderthal look is like those Viking guys on the TV commercials. Cool!”
A lot of folks are asking me, “Why?”
Penny is always cheerful and ready to help.
But right now she just can’t keep up.
Penny has to answer your questions by phone and e-mail. Yesterday morning, Penny turned on her computer and watched 600 e-mails pour into her inbox. Before she could take her first sip of coffee all three customer service lines started ringing off the hook.
Everyone wants the same thing: My new “fat burning pill.”
It might surprise you to learn that nearly 85 percent of coronary bypass surgeries are done unnecessarily. But at nearly $60,000 per surgery it’s certainly easy to see why. Since almost 70 percent of the U.S. population has some sort of heart disease—related treatments, surgeries, and drugs line the pockets of mainstream medicine and big pharma. It ultimately puts your health at risk and this infuriates me.
My old college roommate, R.G. looked a mess when he came to me. A month after his heart attack he was in my clinic desperate for help.
“If this is what it feels like to survive a heart attack I’d rather be dead!”
His doctor had him on a laundry list of drugs, including statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs), beta-blockers to “protect” his heart and nitrates to keep his blood vessels open.
Doctors often prescribe nitrates at the first sign of chest pain. But this common medication for chest pain actually increases your risk of having a fatal heart attack…
I’ve developed a new “sunscreen capsule” that protects your skin from the inside out.
Now you can protect your skin from the sun’s rays without covering yourself in a greasy layer of toxic sunscreen. And there’s much more to the story.
This high-powered ingredient prevents long-term damage to your skin. That means you won’t be left with dry, weathered skin as you age…
I am writing to you this morning from my study at home. I like to write here in the early morning because I can see the sunrise through my study window.
On my desk there’s a container with some leftover salmon and spinach salad from last night. I pulled it from the fridge for breakfast.
High protein breakfasts are your best bet to get yourself going in the morning. But nowadays, they’re rare…
When my alarm clock goes off at 6 o’clock in the morning, I do two things: lace up my cross trainers and strap on my heart rate monitor.
Then I go to the kitchen, drink 12 oz. of pure H2O and start my PACE program.
Fifteen minutes later, I’m finished. That’s all the time it takes to strengthen your heart, expand your lung capacity, and keep yourself in shape. You don’t need to suffer through long, boring workouts or sign up for an expensive gym membership.
This weekend it happened again.
In 16 minutes 3 people lost their lives at the Detroit marathon.
Thirty-six-year-old Daniel Langdon collapsed at about 9:02 am on Sunday between the 11 and 12-mile markers and 65-year-old Rick Brown collapsed at 9:17 am, near where Langdon went down. One minute later, 26-year-old Jon Fenlon collapsed just after finishing the 13.1-mile half-marathon.
When I was watching the news this morning I heard the announcer say sudden death “was rare” during marathon events. I suppose that depends on how you define “rare.”…
This is very important, but nobody seems to know it…
We aren’t fat because we eat too much. And it’s not because we’re lazy.
You can cut calories and still gain weight. And you can work out till you pass out and still have that spare tire.
You can slim down fast if you know this one thing.
Here it is: Hormones make you fat. And you can beat them if you know how.
Case in point: insulin is your #1 fat builder. It tells your body to pack on the pounds.
Do you get lower back pain from sitting in your office chair for hours on end?
Sitting for long periods can be a pain as you age. Long drives, bleacher seats at a football game or working at your computer can trigger back pain.
Ninety percent of Americans have some back pain at some time in their lives. It’s one of the first things I learned in my rehab studies during my residency in med school. In fact, back pain is the number two reason people visit the doctor, second only to upper-respiratory infections.
There I stood on the beach in Rio.
You should have seen them.
The Brazilians were looking awfully good!
Turns out they know something about fat loss we don’t.
A new study reveals that healthy kids who take Ritalin have a whopping 500 percent greater risk of sudden death. These aren’t kids with pre-existing heart conditions. The results would have been worse if they were included.
Here’s proof that what you’ve been told for decades – that Ritalin is safe for kids – couldn’t be further from the truth.
I’m no clairvoyant, but this is one time I predicted something and actually got it right. And I have it recorded.
During my telomere conference I said Elizabeth Blackburn should win a Nobel Prize for her discovery of the telomere, the “caps” at the end of chromosomes. That was October of last year…
A cover story in TIME magazine tells you exercise won’t help you lose weight.
In the article, a professor from Louisiana State University says, “… for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless.”1
If you’re a regular reader you may already recognize the ignorance of this professor’s statement.
What is he missing?
Patients who come to me with unwanted noise filling their head non-stop are among the most frustrated. You can’t sleep. You can’t read. It’s tough to concentrate on anything.
When I went to medical school, like all beginning doctors, I had to learn a new language. We doctors have different words for everything. So we don’t call it “ringing in your ears.” We call it tinnitus.
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