Author: ESS_Naples
A Natural Approach to Allergens
Allergies can be caused by so many things that we are in contact with every day, including food, the environment, pets, chemicals, lotions, potions, m [...]
Allergies and Global Inflammation
Have you noticed? Food and environmental allergies have become more and more common. Today’s food packaging alerts us to the inclusion of allergens su [...]
Solar Panels: Harvesting the Energy from our Sun
Virtually unlimited power is available from our nearest star, the Sun. In just one hour, our planet receives more energy from the sun than the entire [...]
Are You a Pathological Detoxifier?
Whoa, hold on there, you say, no need to be insulting – after all, I don’t even know you! More often than not, when I suggest to a patient the possibi [...]
Stop and Say Hello
Do you realize how few people ever say hello or acknowledge you as you walk past each other when out exercising or shopping or whate [...]
Ayurvedic Medicine for Menopause
Menopause – the time in a woman’s life when her ovaries cease production of estrogen and go into retirement – is a normal and natural transition. In g [...]
Hearts on Fire Chronic Inflammation and Cardiac Disease
When we think about inflammation, we envision swelling, redness, and possibly bruising. We commonly imagine a joint or a wound becoming inflamed from [...]
The Many Paths to Healing Heartburn
For some people, heartburn is simply your body's revenge for an indulgent meal. For others, it can be a daily occurrence and the body's way of saying [...]
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: How Organizing and Changing Your Thoughts Will Help You Achieve the Life You Want
Thoughts support action:If you live in America today, I’m sure you have heard a variation of the above title phrase before. If you’re like most people [...]
Let The Vet Come To You
Do you get a knot in your stomach each year when the reminder card comes in the mail saying your pet is due for her annual examination? The trip to th [...]
Infertility Treatment with Acupuncture: Bringing New Lives into Yours
It's estimated that after a year of trying to conceive, 10 percent of American couples are unable to get pregnant on their own. The vast majority of w [...]
Heart Disease Prevention: Key Nutritional Supplements & Lifestyle Choices
Some risk factors for heart disease you can control and some you cannot. Coronary artery disease causes roughly 1.2 million heart attacks each year, a [...]
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Emerging Role In Acute And Chronic Illness
Positive clinical outcomes and evolving research suggest a potential adjunctive role for Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO) Therapy in the effective management o [...]
Do Environmentalists Eat Meat?
Thank goodness styrofoam cups are on their way out. After all, nothing else so quickly kills the taste of chamomile tea. But it’s the public’s percept [...]
Coffee Talk (with apologies to Linda Richman)
Disclaimer: I’m a big-time coffee drinker and have been since I was a kid. I have periodically given up the good stuff but dutifully resume my healt [...]
The Rise of Unexplained Infertility
Recently the media has become saturated with stories proclaiming the rise of “unexplained infertility” and our increasing “need” for medical [...]
Caveman Diet vs. Mediterranean Diet: Who’s Right?
When it comes to nutrition, it can get very confusing. Patients often vent their confusion to me by claiming “The information is always changing! I do [...]
Debunking The Cholesterol-Heart Disease Myth
Most everything we’ve been taught about cholesterol and heart disease is wrong.
The second most commonly prescribed drug in America in 2010 was Zoc [...]
Debunking The Cholesterol – Heart Disease Myth
By Paul D. Tortland, D.O.
The Cholesterol “Problem”
Most everything we’ve been taught about cholesterol and heart disease is wrong.
The secon [...]
Communication From the Other Side
I often like to advertise my lectures as about PMS. Not post menopausal syndrome but about the practical, mystical and spiritual aspec [...]
Thyroid: Connecting The Dots
Patients always want to hear that weight they can’t lose is from an underactive thyroid. Weight gain is almost always due to an under active thyroid, [...]
Why Do I Feel So Dizzy?
Whenever a patient tells me they feel dizzy, I first ask them to clarify what they mean. Do they mean they feel lightheaded, like they might faint whe [...]
How to Overcome Sugar Addiction
One of the biggest roadblocks to weight loss, contributors to chronic disease and nemeses to a whole foods diet is one of the mainstays in most Americ [...]
Fibromyalgia / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome What Is It?…What To Do About It
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are poorly understood conditions for both doctors and for the public, their potential patients. There is not [...]