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One of the questions I’m asked most regularly is: Is there an optimal diet for cancer? I’ll give you the punchline at the beginning…
Read more about The Best Diet for Cancer? An Integrative Approach to Nutrition and Cancer Care
Healthcare is an inside job, but I occasionally make an appointment with my primary care physician to review basic blood work. We’re counseled to…
Read more about Why You Should Order Your Own Blood Work: The 3 Lesson
Every so often, I come across a technical document that deserves a wider audience. Not because it is easy reading, but because it quietly…
Read more about Chemical Exposure, Immune Function, and the Terrain of Chronic Disease
Do you check your sleep score every morning and cheer or despair based upon the outcome? If sleep tracking is an integral aspect of…
Read more about Why Sleep: And Why You Shouldn’t Use a Sleep Tracker
A colleague of mine once gave me a piece of advice I have never forgotten: before a patient goes to a psychologist wondering whether…
If there’s one form of exercise that deserves more airtime in cancer prevention and survivorship, it’s strength training. Not because bigger biceps are magical,…
Read more about Why Weightlifting: More Lean Muscle and Less Cancer
I woke to the soft pull of sheets and nothing else—not even my name. For a moment, there was only touch: fabric against skin,…
Read more about One Minute Without a Name: Waking Up as Pure Awareness
If you can sit or lie down in relative comfort, you can meditate—the only requirement is passive receptivity. The biggest obstacle to sticking with…
I’ve been increasingly concerned about toxicants in our food supply—and how poorly government agencies are able to protect consumers. Any big corporation selling food…
Read more about Plastic Kraut: An Unanswered Question About Food Safety and Packaging
We’ve come a long way in exploring the concept of spiritual medicine, so I thought it would be helpful to revisit the arc of…
It’s worth expanding on a topic that came up in the previous post in this series. Spiritual bypassing is the idea that one’s religious…
Read more about The Razor’s Edge of Healing: Spiritual Abuse and Medical Hexing
Hopefully it is evident by this stage of the series that spiritual healing is a physiological human capacity, that stress and trauma plant the…
Read more about The Wound Is the Way: Integrating Spirit and Matter in Healing