Naturopathic Maine

I wrote a book about eye health called The Eye Diet . It kept me from needing to switch to the nightmare of trifocals. But almost no one has read it. So I decided to make a short, simple summary for a busy world. The book has all the research, but here are a few of the things I found.  One, eye sight is not a one way downhill slide . We lose most of our eyesight during our teens, and then during our perimenopausal years (sorry guys, our hormones change too). Otherwise, sight tends to be pretty constant.  Two, ten hours a day of screen time does permanently affect sight . We are seeing a pandemic of extreme nearsightedness that promises to enormously increase legal blindness across the globe.  And three, the good news, there are simple things you can do to help your eyesight .  Get outside . Use natural light to read by. Get your children outside. We do not have artificial light that can match the sun. If you are having trouble reading, practice us...

Right before I got diagnosed with colon cancer, I wrote a book on our guts, called Tending Your Internal Garden. In it, I found some pretty exciting things (like you have thousands of unique species living inside you right now).  But science marches on, and now we have research that shows why diet books and diet experts don't agree. They are all right, and they are all wrong. Why? Because you're unique. No, seriously. This isn't a "feel good" moment. This is an "Oops, that means they don't know" moment. Yep. All the diet experts out there cannot tell you what the best diet is for you because you have a unique ecosystem. Your responses to food are your own. You literally can make yourself sick eating like they tell you to if you ignore yourself. Just because it worked for "buns of steel" diet-guru-of-the-week does not mean it will work for you. Here's the TED video detailing how they found this out, with some suggestions about...