Eat for HEALTH A Presentation and Demonstration at CERES Community Project 6-8 PM on the evening of February 26th, 2020 at the Ceres Community Kitchen, 7351 Bodega Ave. Sebastopol COST - Sliding Scale. To Register go to CeresProject.org/vision Plus future events during the coming year We all need some unreservedly good news...
How do we Stay Healthy? That’s still my model and message after 45 years of Integrative Family Medicine at my clinic, Preventive Medical Center of Marin, in San Rafael, California. One of my basic messages is that health and illness begin at the cellular level. When our cells are healthy,...
The Winter season can offer us the greatest challenges for Staying Healthy. The cold and damp climate is often the hardest on our body, along with the shorter days and less sunshine to give us energy and vitality (not to mention vitamin D). So, Staying Healthy in Winter is an...
Is BEMER Therapy the answer for You? Are you dealing with a lack of energy? Do you feel tired even when you wake up in the morning? Do you have trouble sleeping and feel that your brain is in a fog all day, unable to regain the cognitive clarity you...
I write a lot about seasonal health, but what about seasonal disease? Flu is unusual in this regard as it typically appears in northern latitudes between November and March having travelled to the US from Southeast and East Asia where the majority of flu viruses originate each year. These flu...
“Pay attention to the seasons of the year and what affects they have on our health.” These words are attributed to Hippocrates, often called the “Father of Western Medicine,” and ideally, we do pay attention to the times of seasonal change and look ahead to adapt to this ongoing cycle...
Richard Tunkel, MD After practicing as a Chiropractor for many years, Dr. Tunkel received his medical degree from SUNY-HSC at Brooklyn in 1987. He then received his specialty training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation through Cornell Medical Center in NYC and became board certified in 1992. After more than a...
The Benefits of Intradermal Allergy Testing and Sublingual Antigen Therapy The word “allergy” was created 100 years ago to describe strange and unusual reactions to substances that we eat and inhale. We can also have allergic skin reactions to natural substances, like plants, or man-made chemical products like soaps and...
The issue of Woman's World dated August 26th actually actaully hit the stands at your local grocery store on Thursday, August 15th. I was featured on the cover and inside there was a 2 page spread with lots of simple and practical health information. The key message is changing your...
The concept of the People's Doctor is meaningful for me because I truly believe that empowering people to take their health into their own hands is a key part of my role as a doctor – the origin of the word being the Latin docere – meaning to teach. One...
The use of sugar and its effects on health and weight is important for women who want to remain trim and vital. Of course, the wise use of sugar is crucial for everyone, children especially. As mothers and support guides for our youth, keeping sugary foods in check is a...
Weight Loss Diets & Healthy Eating Habits by Elson M. Haas, MD © 2015 Even though our habits and behavior around food, and specifically our relationship to food, is crucial to whether we can actually attain and maintain a healthy weight, there are several diets that can help us lower...
Detoxification and The Detox Diet: An Important Healing Process by Elson M. Haas, MD © 2015 The simplest way to understand symptoms and disease integrates Western linear thinking, Chinese medicine and its philosophy of yin and yang, and the naturopathic approach to health and illness. Problems in the body (and mind) often...
1. Toxicity. Overall, use fewer chemicals and toxins. Eat wholesome, fresh food, (organic whenever possible); drink good water (filtered in some way to remove chemicals and potential pathogens — for specifics, see chapter 1 of Staying Healthy with Nutrition). Use more natural products for your body, in your home (skin and hair...
Depression and Natural Therapies by Elson M. Haas, MD © 2015 Depression could be described as a mood, a state of being, or energy level that includes lack of motivation, a sense of hopelessness, and often a lower level of physical energy. It is an emotional state that can result from...
Male Aging, Hormone Support, and Prostate Health by Elson M. Haas, MD © 2015 We can truly alter our aging process by the way we live. For most men, whether we can ultimately alter our longevity is not as important as enhancing our health and vitality as we age. It’s...
The best approach to cancer is prevention. Cancer is one of the greatest fears of modern societies. It squelches life too early in many cases and is often a difficult demise in later years. Many cancers are preventable with lifestyle changes. Keys are dietary deficiencies, excess fats and chemicals, and cigarette smoking....
The Purification Process: Healing for Modern Times by Elson M. Haas, MD © 2015 This is an article about thinking simply, in a new way, and using common sense in your choices about your health. A choice I often recommend is cleaning up your act, your diet, your relationships, your...
Self Care and Stress Reduction by Elson Haas, MD © 2015 Caring for our selves and finding ways to handle our stresses are clearly important practice for assuring our long-term health. They are definitely key aspects of Preventive Medicine, along with the right nutrition and exercise programs for our body,...
Allergies: An Integrated Approach to Self Care Allergies include a variety of bodily reactions to our external and internal environments. We offer an integrated approach using intradermal testing and sublingual treatment as described in another blog article, but there's a lot you can do too in regard to self care....
Hypertension & Wise Therapy by Elson M. Haas, MD © 2015 Hypertension, or High Blood Pressure (HBP), is a common disease in modern cultures, more common in men than women, and in African Americans over Caucasians. Hypertension means ‘too much tension,’ and of course, stress plays a role in this...
Bladder Health For Women by Elson M. Haas, MD © 2015 (Judy Lane, NP, collaborator) Women are prone to bladder infections, much more so than men. Due to the very short length of the urethra, bacteria can more easily migrate up into the bladder, and then multiply and irritate/infect the...
Follow a non-toxic lifestyle. Eat wholesome, natural foods, drink good water, exercise regularly, and avoid junk foods and additives–to minimize the need to detoxify. If you feel toxic or congested – from aches and pains, allergies and sinus congestion, sluggish digestion, or skin rashes. You might consider a detoxification program as...
10 Tips on Healing Naturally and The Nature of Healing 1. What is healing? Let’s look at that in contrast to what is disease, or dis-ease. Illness is a lack of harmony with Nature and with our true selves, a dis-integration between mind-body-emotion-spirit. We become out-of-sync so to speak when one...
10 Tips on The Purification Process On Your Mark, Get Set, Let’s GO! And grow, and know you can always embark on a healing journey. Start simply with an honest evaluation of your life and habits. How do you think each activity (or lack of it) contributes to your health...
1. As with the gardens, open up to the harvest of your year from the seeds you have planted for your life, and be willing to work hard and discipline yourself as you head into a new season. If you are a student (we are all students of life), get back to...
Become Current in your Life in this inspiring Spring season. Embrace yourself honestly as you look at all of your habits and areas of your own life. Even with all the worldly concerns, care for yourself and your loved ones. Assess the various aspects of your lifestyle to see where stresses...
Spring Cleansing Did you ever wonder how you would feel if you took a break for a week – took a vacation from the foods that drain your energy? Speaking personally, until I did my first ten-day juice fast in 1975, I couldn’t make any kind of comparison. Sure, I...
Life Plan: I make caring for my health a priority in my life. My other top priorities are caring for others in my world and doing a quality job in my work. Nutrition: I eat a balanced diet of wholesome foods for my weight and body type to maintain or achieve an optimum...
The Winter season offers us with the greatest challenges for Staying Healthy. The cold and damp extreme weathers are often the hardest on our body, along with the shorter daylight and less sunshine to give us energy and vitality. So, Staying Healthy in Winter is an Inside Job, with nourishing...
Because our main holidays, from Halloween through New Year’s Day, occur in the darker, late autumn and wintertime of the year, we have a built-in conflict. Ideally this is a more inward time with more rest and quiet required, and a simple warm, nourishing diet. Yet, there are more treats...
