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Common Disrupters of Sleep

“Many of us live lives characterized by light pollution. We rarely experience sunrise and sunset, and are inside under artificial lighting during most of our days. Much of the light exposure we do get is poorly timed. We might not…

Our Debt to Sleep: How Sleep Affects Weight

  “Some experts believe that sleep might have originally been a mechanism to conserve energy. If we fail to get enough sleep to meet our energy conservation requirements, our body moves to the next best choice for energy conservation –…

Our Debt to Sleep: The Problem

“Half of us mismanage our sleep to the point it negatively affects our health and safety. On average, each of us sleeps one and a half fewer hours each night than our great-grandparents did a century ago.” - William Dement,…

Everyday toxins contributing to ADHD

WHY is my kid bouncing off the wall? Maybe he/she is toxic. Seriously. In a recent study of US children, those with higher levels of organophosphate (OPs) pesticide metabolites in their urine were more likely to have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than children with lower levels, researchers report in the June issue of Pediatrics.

Pill for profits – PPI’s and Heartburn

A Proton-Pump Inhibitor (PPI) , or "purple pill" or specifically in this case esomeprazole (Nexium) when given to HEALTHY people without any heartburn whatsoever for an 8 week period caused often severe heartburn, dyspepsia, and GERD symptom in 44% of these people when the medication was stopped!

Connecting Fried Thyroids with Fatty Livers

Fatty Liver is an epidemic at present...  It can lead to liver failure and death and the cause of this current scourge has caused much debate.   Alcohol is a huge contributor to fatty liver disease, but the huge rise in…