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Your Healing Mantra for 2021

  Your body is completely new — inside and out — every few years. All of your organs (except for one) completely regenerates, repairs, and optimizes on a continuous basis. Some parts of your body are so fresh and new that they are only one day old… the cornea of your eye, for example. Your cornea can completely regenerate every 24 hours. Some parts are a little older… the lining of your intestines, for example, are about 3 days old. Your skin is about 1 month old. Your fingernails have completely grown out and replaced themselves in about 6 months. …

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4 Easy Ways To Use Your Breath To Feel Instantly Better — Do Them With Me Right Now

  In medicine, we know it only takes three deep breaths to significantly support vagal nerve tone, which helps modulate your autonomic nervous system. Meaning your heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and brain all get calmed and centered and soothed… and pain significantly decreases as well. Because we can actively control our body’s air exchange through intentional breathing, there are lots of awesome ways you can play around with using your breath to calm you, invigorate you, increase your focus, decrease your anxiety, decrease your pain, increase your oxygenation, decrease stress and muscle tension, and more. I have done …

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Medical Decisions Can Be Overwhelming, Here’s An Easy Tool To Help (+ free printable)

    I just finished up with a two day medical conference called Transforming The Future Of Medicine. There were lots of great topics presented, but one of my favorites was a simple decision making tool that I wanted to share with you here. Although this was presented as a great way to help guide patients in making difficult health decisions, it could really work for any decision you are facing that feels overwhelming. And let’s face it, there are so many huge, daily changes in the world that require huge, important decisions to be made, and lots of overwhelm …

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Uplifting Ideas To Keep Your Spirits High During A Pandemic

    Over the past month, I’ve blogged a few times about coronavirus prevention and treatment ideas, from a holistic physician’s perspective.   So today I want to add onto these tips with some less commonly heard, wonderfully uplifting ideas that you can implement (yes, even while practicing social distancing!) to feel strong, centered and resilient. Today let’s go way beyond the “wash your hands & isolate yourself” recommendation that you have heard a thousand times and add some important tips gleaned from the medical literature after studying the course and resolution of earlier pandemics. And yes, there have always …

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Hang In There. There Are Lots Of Solutions That Are Within Your Control.

    Today I’m sending out just a quick newsletter letting you know that I am working on a new Pandemic Solutions blog post that I will send out to you next week.   In it will be a list of so many different ideas on things you can do to protect yourself and your loved ones — and not the typical “wash your hands and stay indoors” advice you are already inundated with, but fresh uplifting ideas that you can do from the comfort of your own home to feel strong, centered and resilient. With schools closing and social …

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The One Big Health Secret I Learned In Medical School

    As I talked about in the beginning of this video I shared with you two weeks ago, I went to medical school hoping to be taught the secret that would allow me to make, and keep, people healthy.   In fact, what I found out is that physicians really don’t know how to keep people healthy, and that we what we do know is confined not to health but to disease… to what can go wrong in the human body that makes us sick. And to be honest, worse than that is that out of all the things …

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Anything Is Possible For Your Health. And I Mean Anything.

I just finished attending another medical conference… …this one was about treating advanced stage melanoma.   My over all takeaway from that conference was so incredibly uplifting — — because we saw case after case after case of metastatic melanoma patients becoming entirely cancer free — in full remission — after using the new immunotherapy agents we now have available. A diagnosis that (decades ago when I was back in med school) we were taught typically offered a life expectancy of just a few months now has many patients with undetectable cancer levels, in full remission, cancer free years and …

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