LIVE YOUR OWN LFE (LYOL) - Finding True North I have posted a few times about the premise of the above titled book, but I will reiterate here briefly. Stress causes disease, we now know this, and we discuss the reasons at length in this book. But what has never been explained, before we made the connection, is that stress results when we live lives not of our own making - living by someone else’s rules. But in order to live our own lives, consistent with our own values and pr

Let’s Walk - The ultimate movement! As I have written before, walking may be the most reliably useful exercise that most of us can undertake with minimal effort. This continues to be true as a recent TIME magazine article points out. The most important fact mentioned: Walking 8,000 steps per day reduces the chances of death by all causes by 60%, compared to 2,000 steps per day. Some other interesting facts about walking: Varying your terrain, adding some gentle hill work, dr

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FACING OLD AGE? Here are some tips. We hope to increase the quality of your lives, if not the quantity! Here is a summary of the research in aging over the last few years. Source: AARP Get enough sleep. Sleep is vital for metabolism, tissue regeneration, brain integration, memory cataloguing, Limit processed food - After 50 years of processed food as a major nutrition source, life expectancy of Americans has now decreased. Work - keep busy, off the couch, improves mobility an

REGRET “Regrets, I‘ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention!” So sings Frank Sinatra in “My Way”, which happens to be a very popular Karaoke selection in Japanese Night Clubs! But seriously, we’ve all made mistakes, and most of us have spent far too many sleepless hours ruminating about things we wish we hadn’t done, or opportunities lost due to unfortunate decisions. Mistakes of commission or omission are major sources of regret for human beings. Evolutionarily, regr

CHAPTER 31 : Is America having a True North moment? I have not wanted to get frankly political in this book, but watching the events in our country since the 2025 inauguration of our current president, I am worried that we have lost our way. Is the USA having a True North moment? We have learned that losing touch with our true north, our best selves, leads to stress, disease and possible early death. We also learned that, in order to stay on track with one’s True North, we n

Three Things With the onslaught of bad news this holiday season - the murders at Brown University and MIT, the horrible ant-semitic massacre at Bondi Beach, and then the murder of the beloved Rob Reiner, possibly by his own son, one is reminded that horrifying things in life do not take a break for the holidays. The other day I saw a patient, whom, when I asked about the holidays, teared up stating that it was her son’s 11th birthday, His grandfather was just admitted to ICU

Complaining All of us know someone who complains frequently, maybe it’s you! It turns out that although you may think expressing your opinion, positive or negative, is liberating, complaining may actually be damaging your brain. Neuroscience research has demonstrated that complaining for more than 60 seconds can lead to actual structural and functional brain changes, particularly in the region known as the hippocampus, which controls memory and emotional regulation. It turns

Fawning Lissa Rankin, MD ( www.lissarankin.org ) is one of my heroes in the Wellness space. She is a board certified Ob/Gyn physician who realized that traditional western medicine was not effectively treating her patient’s wellness needs, focusing as it does, on extensive testing and prescribing, depersonalzation and profit. I tend to agree, so consequently I read Dr. Rankin’s blogs as often as I can. Recently she discussed the pathologic relationship behavior known as “fawn

Life - The Season of Plenty I apologize to my few, but loyal readers. I have been away for a while to deal with, well...Life. But now I am back to the blogs, and also working on a new book, tentatviely titled TRUE NORTH: How Living Authentially Could ave your Life. An inauthentic Life, it turns out, can lead to deep seated anxiety and stress, which, if left unchecked, may eventually lead to disease and pemature death. To understand why and to learn the tools to prevent such

Improving Self-Esteem In my Wellness work I come across many patients who struggle with maintaining healthy self esteem. They feel...

Take a Walk 15,000 steps,10,000 steps, 7,000 steps. does it matter how many? Probably not. More on this later…The point is to move. And...

Healing Our bodies are programmed to heal. Virtually every organ system and tissue structure of our bodies, once injured or diseased,...

The Vagus Nerve We have long known and oft discussed the “brain - gut connection”, and there is recent scientific interest in the...

TOXIC SHAME Shame is an important emotion which, in healthy amounts, can help us to live the moral lives we hope to live. But when...

Nutrition or Nourishment? We are all familiar with these terms, and many of us think they are synonymous. In common usage they may be. I...

Being Alive The musical number “Being Alive” occurs at the end of Act II of the Steven Sondheim Broadway musical “Company”. It is sung by...

Renewal Everyday we have the opportunity to renew and reinvent ourselves. Especially this time of year, spring time with Easter, Passover...

Entropy The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the entropy of a closed system always increases over time. The best synonym for...

TRANSITION STRESS Change is stressful. People facing new environments - jobs, school, living situation, marital or relationship status -...