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  You’ve probably grown accustomed to thinking salt is bad for you. Like many things, too much salt is bad for you, just like not enough salt can lead you down a path to poor health.   But while you might think I’m going to to talk to you about salt that you put on your food, the truth of the matter is I’m going to give you some health benefits associated with a very different kind of salt.  One that’s been used for 2,000 years to help people heal from a variety of ailments.  This kind of salt is known as Dead Sea salt; which is exactly what it sounds like, salt taken from the Dead Sea in Israel.  I...

  One of the first supplements I developed for the Health As It Ought To Be brand was a vitamin K-2 formulation.  The story of how I came to discover the importance of K-2 is a long one, but suffice to say, out of all the supplemental vitamins on the planet I believe K-2 is one of the most important.  If I didn’t, then believe me, I wouldn’t have put my family through the added stress of trying to create a supplement while also working full time as a physician.  My guess is, if you’re familiar with me and my practice, you know the top 2 reasons to take vitamin K-2 are related to bone and heart health.  If you’re...

    Every now and then I come across a study that first makes me wonder, “Why in the world did this ever come up in conversation...let alone need to be tested?” And then, it makes me wonder if maybe we’d be better off studying something else. Considering what you’re about to see is only the first study, I’d say take the conclusions for what they are. Evidence that what and when you eat will affect your health either positively or negatively. A recent study, conducted by a team led by Joseph S. Takahashi, of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, noted that test subjects who ate food late at night (as opposed to...