Dietary Supplements: It’s All So Confusing
Dietary Supplements: I get so confused. In the United States, over 55% of adults, over the age of 20, have taken dietary supplements in the last 30 days as reported by the CDC. The use of supplements increases with age READ MORE
Why I Fired My Oncologist Twice
I Fired My Oncologist, Twice In reality, I fired two oncologists. From the beginning, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer in November of 2020. I was admitted to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain resulting from a READ MORE
You Have Cancer
You have just been told that you have cancer. What is the first thing you should do? Take a deep breath. That’s right, take a deep breath. Unless this is going to result in death in the next day, or READ MORE
14 Causes of high blood pressure
There are at least 14 causes of high blood pressure. I was in my mid-forties, working as a Certified Nurse Midwife when I started experiencing floaters (like the trails of a sparkler on the 4th of July) in my visual READ MORE
It’s the Doctors fault
Today I am frustrated. I am a health care provider with lots of initials after my name. I am also a patient currently being treated for cancer. I get it. I thought I was living relatively healthy but………………sh… happens. So READ MORE
They Didn’t Tell Me I Was Prediabetic.
When Health Care Providers don’t interpret labs correctly In 2008 I was 58 years old. I worked part-time as a family nurse practitioner. I made it a point to walk every day. I ate, for the most part, a standard READ MORE
STATINS: Do you have a choice?
Statins Statin drugs are liberally used to reduce cholesterol. But are they safe? What are the side effects that we don’t recognize? Are we really going to start using them in children? First of all, let me say that most READ MORE
Gene Variants That Can Affect Your Longevity: Apo B
APO B variant and high cholesterol Wait! I know the title sounds boring. But, if you have this variant, your risk for heart disease and high cholesterol is higher than those without the variant. How much higher? That depends. First, READ MORE
Medications Are Toxins
Medications are toxins. They are man-made substances that either cure disease (like an antibiotic) or treat the symptoms of a disease. Unless the medication is being used specifically to kill a disease-causing organism, it is not curing anything. The use READ MORE
It’s In My Genes
It’s In My Genes I have heard many variations on people’s beliefs regarding heritable diseases (those that may be passed down from relatives.) “My grandmother lived to 100”. This is the person that believes that regardless of what he/she does READ MORE