INTRODUCING HEALTH BOOK

I have written a book on how I treated chronic fatigue and related illnesses. Most of the insights in this book teach how to be healthier, prevent illness, and lesson the burden of all medical problems. These recommendations are health practices that everybody should follow for good health. People without complaints as well as thoseContinue reading “INTRODUCING HEALTH BOOK”

LONG COVID IS BACK

The syndrome of symptoms that follows an acute infection with COVID-19 has been recognized for over a year. Lately, this prolonged disability has been in the news once again because of increasing infections by COVID variants in the United States and around the world. The primary symptoms are overwhelming fatigue, cognitive disorders including memory loss,Continue reading “LONG COVID IS BACK”

THE CHRONIC LYME DISEASE SYNDROME

Websites and books discuss Lyme disease as a cause of long term symptoms and disability. It has been postulated that the Lyme infection persists after the acute condition resolves. The bug continues to be active, wrecking havoc. Fatigue, cognitive impairment, and pain are the most common expressions of this syndrome. Patients have reported maladies affectingContinue reading “THE CHRONIC LYME DISEASE SYNDROME”

IGNORING THE THREAT OF COVID-19

Lately, there has been increased exposure to and diagnosis of the coronavirus infections in many states.  More people are getting sick.  Hospital admission rates have gone up.  In some areas, inpatient capacity problems may develop. People in long term care facilities, meatpacking plants, any indoor place where people tend to congregate close together, elderly individuals,Continue reading “IGNORING THE THREAT OF COVID-19”

LIVING IN THE CORONA FUTURE

It just seems that it will be impossible to get back to the life we were used to before we knew of COVID-19.  There are so many potential risks associated with letting down are guard.  Will we feel comfortable sitting in restaurants, going to movie theaters, flying on airplanes?  Will there ever be an effectiveContinue reading “LIVING IN THE CORONA FUTURE”

Science and Antibiotic Usage Against COVID-19

Science is never a settled thing.  Our understanding is constantly evolving.  New scientific studies alter previous results.  Take the example of postmenopausal estrogen use.  Based on statistics that postmenopausal women have less heart disease and cancer, there was a period of time when this therapy was more commonplace.  This was a number of years ago. Continue reading “Science and Antibiotic Usage Against COVID-19”

The Microflora and COVID-19

The appearance of COVID-19, together with today’s technology for travel and communication, presents an unprecedented situation.  Challenges to responding to this pandemic are extraordinary.  We need an unheard-of perspective to enable us to design and accept novel treatments in short timelines. We live in a symbiotic relationship with micro-organisms.  They envelope us as they streamContinue reading “The Microflora and COVID-19”

Fighting The Pandemic

One of my favorite lessons I taught patients in treating their Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and related conditions is the following: If you make anything healthy, then you make everything healthy. This is a guiding concept for treating every illness.  It applies to preventing illness.  Every person making themselves healthier will make them less susceptible toContinue reading “Fighting The Pandemic”

PROTECT THE LUNGS AND FIGHT COVID-19

The sickest people who get COVID-19 develop lung problems.  The small airways become inflamed and narrowed.  Thick secretions build up in these airways, further impeding the movement of oxygen.  The alveoli, where gas exchange with the blood occurs, become stiff.  This further inhibits the ability of oxygen to pass into the blood and for carbonContinue reading “PROTECT THE LUNGS AND FIGHT COVID-19”