In my first TEDx talk, The Shocking Truth About Your Health, I introduced the idea that optimal health requires not just a good diet, daily exercise, and plenty of sleep, but also healthy relationships, a healthy professional life, a healthy spiritual life, and so...
Medicine is filled with good people doing the best they can to operate in a bad system. In my experience, most people in the health care industry are doing their jobs well. They just don’t realize that their job descriptions are just plain wrong. In the U.S., we...
As a physician, I’ve been exposed to a variety of wellness models, most of them pie charts and pyramids detailing what it takes to be optimally healthy - a nutritious diet, an exercise regimen, enough sleep - you catch my drift. But something about these wellness...
For those of us in the United States, today is a day of giving thanks, of counting our blessings, of expressing gratitude, of remembering how far we’ve come. But even if you live elsewhere, I invite you to give thanks not just today, but every day. It’s no accident...
I once wrote a whole book that is yet unpublished called BROKEN: One Doctor’s Search For The Lost Heart Of Medicine. It’s still unpublished, but I now know the real reason - because my role is not just to raise awareness of how broken our system is, but to be a...
Almost four years ago, I met my raw foods teacher Tricia Barrett, who was running green juice detox cleanses like this one at the same integrative medicine center where I practiced medicine. Since my first green juice detox with Tricia, I’ve called myself a “raw...
In this blog series, I’ve been exploring the relationship between fear, anxiety, and how it leads us to overmedicalize health care. In Part 1 of this blog series, I discussed The Shocking Dangers of Medical Overdiagnosis & Overtreatment. In Part 2, I shared How...
If you think your body - or the body of someone you love - might be at risk of being overmedicalized, keep reading! In Part 1 of this blog series, I discussed The Shocking Dangers of Medical Overdiagnosis & Overtreatment. In Part 2, I shared How To Avoid...