Clarity For The Journey Ahead

In 2019, American life expectancy was 78.8 years. In 2020, it fell to 77.0. In 2021, it fell again, to 76.4. That's 2.4 years gone in two years. COVID-19 drove much of that drop. So did drug overdoses, along with other causes. By 2024, life expectancy had recovered to 79.0 years. Good news. But it's not the part I keep thinking about. While everyone was watching the pandemic, the chronic metabolic diseases that have been building in this country for decades didn't go anywhere

Childhood nutrition, metabolic health, and the feet we end up with. I've worked with horses for 36 years. Over and over, I see the same health patterns show up in horses and in people. One of the clearest is in the hoof. In horses, metabolic syndrome and laminitis are closely linked. A problem in the metabolism shows up as a problem in the foot. That got me wondering about our feet. Over the years I've met a lot of adults with foot (knee, hip and back) problems. Some have hig

There's a particular kind of frustration in knowing what you think you should do and still not doing it. It doesn't take long before the questions turn inward. What's wrong with me? Why can't I just decide? Why do I keep circling back to the same place? Give it enough time and you start to believe you're simply not capable. I don't think that's true. Most of the time, I don't think you're even stuck. I think you're trying to solve something from a vantage point that doesn't s

This blog is a synopsis of A Midwestern Doctor’s article, “DMSO is a Miraculous Therapy for Neurological Diseases,” published September 26, 2026. For the full research, references, case reports and protocols, please read the original article. DMSO and the Nervous System: What Decades of Overlooked Research Suggest Dimethyl sulfoxide, better known as DMSO, is an inexpensive compound that has been studied for decades for its unusual ability to penetrate tissues, reduce inflamma

Using aluminum foil in cooking significantly increases aluminum exposure, with studies showing an 8.1% increase in urinary aluminum concentrations during high-exposure periods Cooking with aluminum foil leads to aluminum leaching into food, even exceeding safety limits at times. Factors like acidity, salt content, fat, temperature and cooking time affect leaching rates Aluminum accumulation in your body is linked to neurological issues, including Alzheimer's, autism, multiple

The Link Between Alcohol Consumption and Cancer: Insights from the AACR 2024 Report The American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) 2024 report sheds critical light on the connection between alcohol consumption and cancer. According to the findings, alcohol was responsible for 5.4% of cancer cases in the U.S. in 2019, emphasizing the role of modifiable lifestyle factors in cancer prevention. Types of Cancers Linked to Alcohol Alcohol consumption is strongly linked to se

Some sources say that nearly 45% of the U.S. population doesn’t get enough magnesium, primarily because our diets lack sufficient dark leafy greens where magnesium is abundant, or our bodies cannot access the magnesium due to the anti nutrients in plants and we need to focus our way of eating to be carnivore. Lifestyle factors, including sleep deprivation, stress and alcohol consumption, also lead to a decrease in magnesium levels And even marginally low magnesium consumption

Reductive stress is an imbalance caused by excess reducing agents (like NADH, NADPH, or glutathione) that overwhelm normal redox signaling, impairing mitochondrial function and promoting inflammation. Dietary fats strongly influence this balance — excess saturated or omega-6 fats can increase reductive stress by overloading mitochondria and disrupting electron flow, while balanced intake of monounsaturated and omega-3 fats helps restore redox and metabolic efficiency. Monouns

For overweight and obese men who have hypogonadism - a medical condition in which the body’s sex glands (the gonads — testes in males, ovaries in females) produce little or no sex hormones. In men: It results in low testosterone levels and can cause symptoms such as decreased libido, erectile dysfunction, fatigue, loss of muscle mass, and infertility. Causes may be primary (testicular failure) or secondary (pituitary or hypothalamic dysfunction). (In women; It involves low es

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