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Sometimes, it is important look at things from the 50,000 foot view.  And sometimes it is better to get really really close. One of the problems with medicine is that doctors often carry around a limited set of tools in our tool kit.  And, sometimes, we have the wrong...

Hello all my diabetic friends out there.  Something to think about…… The goal of most primary care physicians (including myself for most of my career) is to manage your sugars.  Need to keep them below 110.... without going too low.  Too low is no fun at all.  "Here...

What is HIIT and SIT?? Have you every met someone who loves to run?  I mean the guy that gets up every morning and jogs for an hour before work.  Or the girl that gets some bad news and goes on a 10 mile run to let off steam.  Are you one of these people?  If you are,...

I became a doctor to help people.  I have always felt that this was my calling and my gift.  But an experience several years ago changed the way I viewed healthcare.  Several years ago, my wife and I wrote a check to build a water well in Liberia Here was my “aha”...

Growing Our Brains So when I was in medical school I was taught that when you lose a brain cell it is gone forever.  But, in 1998 we learned that this was not the case.  The brain does indeed regenerate under the right conditions, a process coined neurogenesis. ...

Is your heart healthy? Are you sure? Below is a chart analyzing the relationship between Coronary Artery Calcium Scores and traditional cardiac risk factors (age, hypertension, smoking, etc.).  Coronary Artery Calcium Scores (CAC) are obtained from a specialized CT...

Why is this country so sick?   Why is the healthcare system broken? The reason is simple.  We have failed over and over again to identify the true cause of what is actually broken.  It does not matter if you hit the bull’s-eye….. if you are aiming at the wrong...