Since graduating from medical school in 1989, I have come to the conclusion that much of what I was taught was wrong. In fact, at my medical school graduation, the dean said, “Fifty percent of what we just taught you was wrong, your job is to figure out which...
In today’s New York Times magazine (2.8.15), there was an interview with Kid Rock. My wife, Allison, was reading the paper and yelled from the other room, “David, you have to see this.” She read to me part of the interview where Kid Rock was asked, “Do you ever...
With the Ebola virus in the news, I thought it might be time to comment on what steps you can take to prevent becoming ill. Keep in mind that conventional medicine has no effective treatments for the Ebola virus. Due to a slow international response, Ebola has spread rapidly....
Folks, I have written to you many times about the benefits of unrefined salt. Human beings are designed to desire and utilize salt on a daily basis. We can’t live without salt. Remember, we have no stores of salt in our bodies. Either we ingest adequate amounts of salt...
No one likes to say, “I told you so”. Well, maybe sometimes we do. I have been prescribing and recommending unrefined salt to my patients for nearly 20 years. My analysis of thousands of blood tests continue to show that most patients are salt deficient. Yes, you read that...
Each year I like to give a lecture presenting my views on why holistic medicine should be the medicine of the future. This year’s lecture will take place at the Novi Sheraton hotel (8 mile and Haggerty) on Saturday, January 18, 2014. It will start at 9:00 a.m. and...
My patients always give me quizzical looks when I tell them they need to increase their salt intake. You see, I have been checking salt levels on nearly every patient that has ever seen me. My experience has clearly shown that most patients do not consume enough salt. I...
Last week, the Institute of Medicine reported that Americans should not limit their salt consumption. The American Heart Association (AHA) and the other Powers-That-Be (PTB) have been telling us for years to limit our salt intake to no more than 1,500mg/day—which is about one-half teaspoon of refined salt. For...
I participated in an interview with Jonathan Willbanks from the New Mind-Body Spirit Summit which begins on Friday, March 22, 2013. This conference is free to register and listen to the talks. I covered many topics including: What is wrong with health in America right now? Demystifying unrefined salt...
Toxic peanut butter? A research study in Environmental Health Perspectives reported on the contamination of 46 food items purchased from a Dallas grocery store (Environ Health Perspectives:-. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1204993; 2012). The scientists were assaying the food samples to determine if they were contaminated with flame retardants made with bromine (hexabromocyclododecane). ...