One thing I can tell you having treated just about any disease you can think of over the past 35 years is that 1) the name of the disease doesn’t tell you much regarding how it should be treated, 2) the underlying causes are different in each person, even if you are...
Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) occurs when there is an increase in the bacteria population in the small intestine. Let’s examine for a minute what this actually means. Once you swallow the food and it’s done digesting in the stomach, it enters the small...
Insomnia is defined as being a sleep disorder in which you have trouble either falling and/or staying asleep, and it affects many people at some point or another in their lifetime. While you may resort to the use of sleeping pills, it is always best to try to get to...
Depression affects 1 in 15 adults in any given year. And one in six people will experience depression at some time in their life. Depression can occur at any time, but on average first appears during the late teens to the mid-20’s. Women are more likely than men to...
As with many of the diseases we are seeing nowadays, the incidence of both asthma and allergies has increased dramatically over the past 30 years. So we have to look and see what has happened over the past few decades to see what might be upsetting our children’s...
One in 3 people in the United States have prediabetes. As the name implies, your blood sugar incrementally goes up as the years go by. Up to 70% of individuals with prediabetes will eventually develop diabetes. Doctors monitor your blood work and then when it looks...
