A fever is the body’s perfect response to fighting infection. Why is it that our society is so trigger happy to suppress that perfect response? In a nutshell – fear. Instead of taking the time, energy, and effort to educate parents on the judicious use of fever suppressing medication, it is a lot easier to […]

  Have you ever tried to get somewhere using the wrong map? That is exactly what most people are doing when they are trying to lower their cholesterol following mainstream nutritional advice. Eat only egg whites, eat margarine not butter and whatever you do don’t eat red meat! Unfortunately this misguided nutritional advice is going

Last week on Doctor as Teacher Tuesday I wrote about the benefits of bone broth. Now it’s time to take action with your new knowledge. Here is a demo on how easy it is to make your own bone broth from my friend and blogger Carolyn with the Eat Real Food Academy. [video_player type=”youtube” width=”560″

Have you ever heard the saying “what’s old becomes new again”? Well it is certainly true when we think about bone broth. Do you remember grandma’s bone broth soup being the cure all for everything when you were little? And think about the million dollar success of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Turns

I love sun! I would much rather be too hot than too cold any day of the week. That is why I always take my vacation in the winter so that I can go somewhere warm. One question that I get often when patients are travelling down south is about the vaccines recommended for travellers. I

Have you had the stomach flu yet this season? I can say that I unfortunately have experienced it first hand. Watch my video to hear about the treatment I used on myself and that you can use too if you get this nasty bug! [video_player type=”youtube” width=”560″ height=”315″ align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″]aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS85ZVhoaGQwbkd2VQ==[/video_player]   Now I would

  What does Betty Crocker and my husband have in common? One of my favourite winter recipes – Shrimp Creole. Believe it or not this recipe comes from a Betty Crocker recipe card that my mother-in-law gave to my husband when he started living on his own. Over the years he has perfected the spices

  I believe that food, exercise, sunlight, fresh air, relationships, and stress affect our health more than we will ever know. It is these things that we need to be spending our time, money, and effort on in order to live a healthy life. It is our daily habits that will determine the overall quality

I can’t believe 2016 is pretty much over. I also can’t believe that I have published approximately 50 editions of Doctor as Teacher Tuesday. So I want to end this year by bringing you a little preview of what I am going to try to do more of next year – video! As always please

Happy holidays everyone! I can’t believe how quickly it has snuck up on us this year. Please take note of our office holiday hours: Friday Dec. 23rd – OPEN until 1pm Monday Dec 26th (Boxing Day) – CLOSED Tuesday Dec 27th (stat holiday in lieu of Christmas Day) – CLOSED Wednesday Dec 28th and Thursday Dec