The Care and Feeding of a Healthy Brain
New This Week: June 13, 2012
Optimizing Your Health — Part 1: Optimizing Brain Health
Dear Readers,
This week I'm launching a new series of articles about optimizing your health.
Conventional medicine usually takes the approach of preventing and treating disease — creating names and descriptions for thousands of different diseases, and then declaring "war" on them with drugs and surgeries (which often create a lot of "collateral damage," to use another war-related term). But the war on illness doesn't work. And as a result, year by year, Americans are getting sicker and sicker! There is a better way…
...Optimize your health!
When you optimize your health, you give less room for disease to take hold. And you also optimize your vitality and energy. So it's time to declare your personal truce in the "war" against disease — and take your health back by optimizing key systems and organs in your body. And that's what my new series is all about.
For years, the proponents of natural health and healing have advocated focusing on creating health, as opposed to preventing and treating disease. So this upcoming series is going to show you how to do just that, organ by organ and system by system. Let's start by optimizing the health and function of that all-important organ — your precious brain!
Love & blessings,
Dr. T
Research Briefs
Hepatitis C Triggers Fibromyalgia
As I've discussed in the past, numerous infections can trigger fibromyalgia and CFS. This study looked at 185 people with hepatitis C (a viral infection of the liver) and found that a dramatic 57% of them also had fibromyalgia — and hepatitis C is getting so common that the CDC is considering recommending that all baby boomers be screened for it!
Vitamin D for Optimal Health
Study after study shows that making sure your blood levels of vitamin D are optimized is a superb way to promote healthy function of different systems within your body. In this article I point out a number of these studies.
By the way, I don't recommend blood testing for vitamin D levels, because I don't consider the test reliable. What's protective? I recommend 2,000 IU of vitamin D a day. And take regular walks to get D-producing sunshine. The key to sun exposure: avoid sunburn, not sunshine.
This Week's Odd Stuff
Crazy But Actual Laws in Connecticut
You can be stopped by the police for biking over 65 miles per hour.
In order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.
It is illegal to dispose of used razor blades.
It is illegal to discharge a firearm from a public highway.
It is illegal for fire trucks to exceed 25 mph, even when going to a fire, in New Britain CT.
Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D. is one of the world's leading integrative medical authorities on fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. He is the lead author of eight research studies on their effective treatments, and has published numerous health & wellness books, including the bestseller on fibromyalgia From Fatigued to Fantastic! and The Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Solution. Dr. Teitelbaum is one of the most frequently quoted fibromyalgia experts in the world and appears often as a guest on news and talk shows nationwide including Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, Oprah & Friends, CNN, and Fox News Health.
