Tag: obesity

Lean Muscle and Weight Loss

There is an important corollary to our ongoing discussion on weight loss that needs special attention here.  Fundamentally, obesity is a symptom of metabolic derangement.  You can’t go long eating a diet full of processed high-carb foods before the “fuel injection system” of your body breaks down.  Eating in this way shifts your body away from maintaining lean […]

Getting the Correct Diagnoses—All of Them

Getting the Correct Diagnoses—All of Them

I have great reverence for the scientific method and one of its beneficiaries, conventional Western medicine (immunotherapy played a role in my cancer journey). Yet conventional medicine sometimes fails to address the whole person—body, mind, spirit—through its reductionist lens. For that piece of the healing puzzle, many turn to practitioners of holistic medicine, such as naturopathy and Chinese medicine.