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The Feel-Good Pill Blues

This past February, Whitney Houston was found dead with Xanax and alcohol in her system.  In her hotel room she had prescription drugs including Xanax, Valium, and Ativan, all anti-depressants.  Anti-depressants, anti-anxiety, and insomnia drugs are becoming a...

Food News In Brief

*  The prize for the worst food innovation ever goes to the Iowa State Fair, which offered 57 varieties of deep-fried food-on-a-stick (think corn dogs), including deep fried butter!   A half-stick of cold butter, covered in funnel cake batter, fried, then glazed with...

Radiation Related Cancer Risks

The diagnostic tools available to modern medicine, such as X-rays, CT scans, MRIs, etc., allow medical doctors to look right inside your body to see what is going on.  They are undoubtedly extremely valuable, and at the same time, none of them are completely without...

Listen to your mother – Sit Up Straight!

Sometimes patients come into my office and they know why they hurt.  “I was bench lifting weights and I felt my back give.”  Most of the time, though, I hear, “It’s my shoulders again.  You know, that is where I carry my stress.” I know...

What do Tobacco and Sugar Have in Common?

A lot of people don’t study much science, but they still rely on scientists to tell them about their world.   I have studied a lot of science, and I have a scientist’s respect for the integrity and dedication of this field.    But the human capacity to do...
Feel The Vibe!

Feel The Vibe!

Healing Ground Wellness Center is the place to go for good vibrations – Power Vibe, that is.  Power Vibe is a therapeutic machine first developed to stimulate bone regrowth in astronauts, who lose bone density very quickly when they are in a weightless...