Posted on April 2nd, 2014 by Dr. Mike   A Glimpse at Leptin     Have you ever tried to go on a diet, and you ended up shedding some of those unwanted pounds… but then you reached a plateau where you just couldn’t seem to lose anymore? This will happen more often than not with calorie restrictive diets.  We have been under the impression for a long time that the amount of fat on our bodies is proportional to the amount of calories taken in our diet. As a nation, we’ve focused so much on calories in weight loss, […]

I have been “preaching” for years NOT to eat conventionally raised chicken.  Conventional means ANYTHING besides organic.  So… natural, greenwise, super duper clean… whatever the label, if not ORGANIC, don’t eat it if you care about your health. This of course includes chicken from Chick-fil-a, a grilled chicken salad at a nice restaurant, or a chicken breast at Nikolai’s Roof in downtown Atlanta for $50 for the a-la carte breast.   And the reason why I have been preaching this, is because the chicken feed has been laden with arsenic for years.  Purposefully placed in order to accomplish a number […]

Juice Plus.  Sometimes it seems like people just sell what they sell, and they don’t pursue truth.  Well, it seems that way all the time in the world of marketing that we live in.  But when it comes to health, well… there is a more important attention to detail, as being right could save a life, and being wrong to take one. To live longer, take less supplements – this was the title of one of our daily sprout articles, long before we sold juice plus, or had a serious distinction between good and bad supplements.  This was a great […]

Four or so years ago, we began the promotion of an idea.  An ideal actually.  The ideal of perfectly laying your health decisions out at the feet of God.  We started this group, as an organization of patients willing to take our message of the five essentials of health, into the community, to help educate and restore health where it is absent. The ideal of the name – let God out of the box when it comes to your health.  A simple yet brilliant thought process, not one that we made up, but that we adopted for health.  You see. […]

CDC reports say we are somewhere between 860,000 and 880,000 deaths per year due to cardiovascular concerns.  A number that has risen steadily since 1987.  1987.  Why would I pick 1987?  The year the first statin drug came on the market.  Mevacor. According to a new Time magazine article, a new standard for cholesterol drug prescriptions will come out, and will put 13 Million more Americans in the “acceptable” range for statin drugs. Garbage like this is what fires me up the most: Most of the newly eligible — 10.4 million — would be those who have not had any […]

Kids who KNOW can make wise decisions, kids who don’t have NO hope.  Teach your children how to be healthy, and let them make wise decisions, even amid their bad ones. Trans Fat – (from Wikipedia) Although trans fats are edible, consumption of trans fats increases the risk of coronary heart disease[2][3] by raising levels of the lipoprotein LDL (so-called “bad cholesterol”) and lowering levels of the lipoprotein HDL (“good cholesterol”).[4]  The United States FDA has issued a preliminary determination that partially hydrogenated oils (which contain trans fats) are not “generally recognized as safe”, which is expected to lead to a ban on industrially produced trans fats from the American diet.[16] In other countries, there are legal […]