Dr. Mark and Dr. Chip's Healthy Blogs

  Hello Natural Health Family! It’s Monday again so you know what that means… we get to have another great week. Now I know that sometimes we may think the weekend went fast and we have to go back to work. However, a subtle change in mindset helps for many different areas of life. Let's talk about mindset and more specifically our focus.  Can you remember a time when you were laser focused on something or activity you did. Maybe it was when you were a kid and you wanted to be able to perform some skill like riding a bike. At first you might have used training wheels to get a feel of what the end result would feel like. You would be cruising down the road with the wind in your hair and excited knowing that all that time spent training was worth it. So then, you are getting comfortable with the training wheels so you take them off and see how it goes. You notice that it is hard to maintain your balance and you feel a bit scared so you start slow and are hesitant to keep both l...

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Your metabolic health has a significant impact on COVID-19 severity, and at least 9 in 10 Americans are metabolically unhealthy One of the classic changes associated with insulin resistance, obesity and metabolic syndrome is overactivation of the innate immune system, with decreasing activity in the adaptive immune system When it comes to healthy aging, it's not your biological age that matters but, rather, your immune and metabolic age, both of which are malleable and can be improved through simple lifestyle changes Research shows that when blood sugar is well-controlled and there's less glycemic variability, people do better when contracting COVID-19. When they have high levels of glycemic variability, which is indicative of insulin resistance, they fare much worse Return guest Dr. Paul Saladino is a board-certified psychiatrist and also board certified in nutrition. He wrote “The Carnivore Code,” which just came out in an updated second edition. In this int...

Hello Natural Health Family. I hope everyone was able to enjoy the great weather we had this weekend. It looked like winter made one final comeback, but it looks like now we are off to spring weather. Spring is a great time for change and new beginnings. Only this year it appears the changes seem to be more dramatic. If it feels like life is getting overwhelming or you feel like you have lost direction, it is important to do things that will ground you and keep life in more balance.       Setting some goals that you would like to achieve is a good way to organize your mind. These can be small goals so as to not be overwhelming causing other issues. Setting goals or having a clearer picture of what you want in life can help your mind be more collected and not so  scattered. Goals can be as simple as finding time to help others, calling a friend or relative every week, or setting aside time to do something you want to do.      Mor...