Why A Prolon Fasting Mimicking Diet?
How you can benefit from a Prolon Fasting Mimicking Diet. With Valentine’s Day just passing, the day of loving each other, I want to suggest we be sure and love ourselves! The month of February and onward! Be sure to build relationships, protect your sleep, be active...
Plastic Water Bottles = Plastic Ingested
USE METAL. OR GLASS. NOT PLASTIC (for water)! Water is the main reason this headline popped back into my mind recently. I’ve been telling friends and family to stop buying water bottle in plastic bottles for years now. Not only for the plastic pollution problem that...
Can You Trust Your Supplements?
ARE YOUR SUPPLEMENTS SPIKED? Yes! Spiked. In other words, something has been snuck in your supplement that isn’t listed on the ingredient list. Another question may be if the products purchased actually contain what is on the label and quality of the products...
DOES GINKGO BILOBA HELP WITH LIBIDO?
What is Ginkgo Biloba ? Also known as Ginkgoaceae contain a number of identified flavonol, glycosides, terpene lactones, and bilobalide which are associated with perceived health benefits (Rimmer 2007; Meton 2008). It has been shown to facilitate peripheral blood flow...
DOES DHEA HELP WITH LOW LIBIDO IN WOMEN?
When the “pink pill” for women came to market late this past year I had a number of women asking me for it. This reminded me to look into the different options for libido. Without going into too much about the new medication, it is only approved for use in...
Conscious Clothing
The recent Bangladesh garment factory tragedy reminded me once again how much our lives impact the lives of others thousands of miles away. In our daily lives, we simply walk in a store and purchase items at low cost without any thought to the cost imposed on...
Menopause – Alternatives
...to hormone replacement therapy and anti-depressants Exploring our local health food store yesterday, Van's, reminded me to complete and post this article I've been working on way too long. It also reminded me how many "natural" products are out there that tout...
Fluoride for a 3-year old?
Yes or No? (as my son often says) Due to indecisiveness, we have both a fluoride and non-fluoride toothpaste. As San Jose begins to add fluoride to the drinking water my husband and I have been wavering about whether or not to provide fluoride to our son. In fact, he...
Thanks Alameda County!
...for joining others in banning plastic bags! Happy New Year! On January 1, 2013, the county that I live in, Alameda County, will ban plastic bags and will require a minimum 10-cent charge on paper and reusable bags. The cost could go up to a minimum of 25-cents in...
Chasteberry and fertility
An added bonus for those trying to conceive While reading about chasteberry for other gynecologic issues, one of the review papers mentioned a secondary effect of influencing both follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone, both hormones important in...
Chasteberry, Vitex agnus-castus
An Herb for the Gynecologist’s Toolbox Chastetree (Vitex agnus-castus) has been used since ancient Greece and is thought to have many gynecologic uses due to some of the plants compounds similar to human sex hormones. In medieval Europe, it was thought to...
Environmental Laws – California 2012
COMPLETED! Food & Water – For your protection! I’m continuing the saga of learning about all the new environmentally oriented laws that were enacted for 2012, just about in time for those that will be enacted in 2013! Because I am obsessive I had to complete the...
Acupuncture and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
Together - does it equal more babies? Ironically, this past week the question of acupuncture and IVF came to me from two different directions. First, I received an e-mail from a patient who was going to be starting IVF in the near future and wondered if the addition...
Solar Is ON!
FINALLY! Trying to make the commitment to greening our life, meant thinking of ways we could reduce our carbon footprint. One of those ways we thought to reduce our use and may be a worthwhile investment was to add solar panels to our house and our back rental unit. ...
Mercury Amalgam Dental Fillings
Should I take them out? My husband went to the dentist the other day for a regular check up and came home asking about replacing his mercury fillings. Almost every tooth in my mouth with a spot for a filling contains that dull silver color. I began to wonder what...
2012 California Environmental Laws
Protecting the Environment ~ and you Of the 745 new California laws that begun at the start of the year, 16 are directed at environmental protection laws. If you are looking for a list of all California laws with all the legal-ese you can stand, there is a pdf...
Science of Yoga
for practitioners - it’s self-evident Having just completed my first full year of regular yoga practice, I decided to celebrate by reading the book “The Science of Yoga” by William Broad. Prior to reading the book, I can tell you that yoga has made a huge difference...
Green Living
Can you have it all? Sometimes it seems like the answer to that question is “no”. Rather every choice seems more to be, pardon the cliché, but a ‘choice between the lesser of two evils’. Paying careful attention to every choice I’ve been making has definitely been...
If you care what’s in your food California – Please sign!
Sign the petition (that's genetically modified organisms) Please log on and sign before April 22, 2012! This is for all those in California who care what is in their food. If enough signatures can be collected, there will be a measure on the ballot in November 2012...
Are “smart” meters dangerous…
for your health? When we bought our new house in Livermore and the technician came out to set up our power he remarked he was changing our meter to a “smart” meter. I was just glad to have power at that time so didn’t really think anything of it. We’ve been...