Poison Prevention Week: A Good Reminder!

Have you checked your home lately for poisonous substances?  Oh, you don’t have children!  Well, what about your pet or your niece, nephew, or neighbor’s child?  Keeping poisons including medications, cleaning supplies and garden chemicals put away can...

Aluminum Toxicity: It’s Everywhere!

It’s time to wake up and smell the water!  Did you know that aluminum, an extremely toxic metal, could be in your drinking water?  Scientists have known since 1911 that aluminum causes brain damage, but it is still being added to tap water to remove...

Can Functional Medicine Help You?

The medical profession today focuses on treating the symptoms of many diseases and disorders and not the causes.  Certainly, this isn’t the case in all situations, but too many times, for example when diagnosticians cannot identify a specific disease, as in many...

Is Your Air Contaminated?

Mercury contamination is a serious health threat that many are not aware exists all around us.  Coal burning accounts for 40% of the atmospheric mercury that we are exposed to and the health risks are especially high for the unborn and the very young.  Coal burning...