As health care practitioners, we bear witness to the physical, emotional, and psychic pain that our patients experience.

Many of our patients are nav...

On December 21, my wall calendar says: "Winter begins.” I disagree! December 21 is the Winter solstice and marks the longest night of the year, the de...

A few weeks ago, on a blustery Saturday afternoon, I spirited my niece away from her studies at Berkeley for a walk at Sibley Park in the Oakland h...

Thich Nhat Hahn’s little gem of a book How to Eat simply puts it this way, “When we are eating, we know that we are eating. When we are opening a door...

Last summer we sent out a series of emails about the importance of hydration habits. From the number of responses we received, hydration is a topic of...

Beans are having a moment. It seems silly to say that, when legumes have been a staple in human diets for more than 10 000 years. But at least accordi...

I started the 1 Minute to Better Health blog in 2014, and one of the first posts I wrote remains a favorite, both of mine, and of readers. So every fe...

Reader contribution

A few weeks ago, I sent an article titled The Spiral of Grief. I received many emails in response.

Over the next few days, many ...

As we head into the depths of cold/flu/covid/rsv season, we need to address one of the most common pressures (and least popular to discuss:) on your i...

One of my favorite prescriptions to write is "sleep more”, especially this time of year, when people often come into the clinic saying "I’m so tired”,...

Maybe you gargle with salt water when your throat hurts, which is great.  But, did you know that this is also an effective cold and flu prevention too...

Once again we are deep into Autumn, the season associated with grief and loss. Over the years of working with patients and living as a human, I have c...