Surprising Thyroid Threat

My appointment book is almost completely full thanks to such a big response from my letter asking patients to come see me before my busy few months start… And I had a patient come see me this week that I want to tell you about because I’m seeing more of this kind of thing lately. [...]

Spilling Poison Into You Every Day

“I only have one.” “You have to get it out,” I told my researcher, K.D. He had come across a new study that shows one of the biggest sources of mercury in the environment is dental mercury. Almost half a ton of mercury makes it into surface and ground water every year just from the [...]

First Your Smile, Then the Rest of You

They took human tooth enamel and dunked it in either an energy or a sports drink for 15 minutes at a time. Then they “rinsed” the enamel with artificial saliva for two hours. They did this four times a day for five days to simulate the normal way people drink the canned and bottled drinks [...]

Do We Have to Throw Away Our Fishing Poles?

I love to fish. Even though, when I take my son Dylan fishing, he catches fish like crazy, and I never seem to catch a thing. But it doesn’t matter. Fishing puts us in a different world. As the Babylonian proverb says, “The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent fishing.”

So… How sad it was for me to discover that we can’t eat the fish caught in most streams anymore.

I’ve always believed it’s better to eat wild cod, wild salmon, and bass we catch in freshwater streams, because it’s far healthier than farm-raised fish. But there’s some disturbing news I need to share with you. Wild-caught fish is not the clear-cut choice it used to be…