She was soooo pretty. Blue eyes. Curly blond hair. She looked RIGHT at me. I almost had to look away it was so direct. I can still remember like it was yesterday. I should have known she’d break my heart. It was 37 years ago this month. Jennifer. She was my...
In my practice the most common patient concerns are fatigue, trouble with sleep, and anxiety. It is actually rare for a patient to complain about depression, but many of these patients are offered anti-depressants by their physicians. They often ask me if there are...
There is a way of looking at human development as a process of becoming attached and then working the rest of our lives to undo that attachment. We are supposed to be safe and then to separate and become individuals. Many toddlers go through a stage at about age 18...
In the last few weeks I have seen a 9 year old with frequent colds, a middle aged man with depression, tight hamstrings and debilitating knee pain, a menopausal woman with fatigue and anxiety and an overweight woman with insomnia. Each of these individuals has seen at...
What is a person to do? Most of my patients are aware of the risks of bone fracture with aging. The statistics are indeed pretty frightening. Fractures in old age are the kind of thing that sends us to bed and from which we may never get up. Most women routinely get...
My practice seems to be evolving. More talk, fewer supplements. Lifestyle science continues to accumulate evidence that confirms the comic strip character Pogo’s observation “yep, son, we have met the enemy and he is us.” That now-famous comment appeared in an...