Dr. Mark and Dr. Chip's Healthy Blogs

  Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation -      What a great weekend. We got a lot done outside and are so thankful that we got some good rain to keep everything green. Karen even noticed that after she mowed off the garden, there's another crop of volunteer vegetables growing and we're hoping that we actually get some produce from that. It's just great to have the trees green yet and the grass still growing this late into fall. The weather is even good for the farmers as it's dry enough to get the crops ready for Harvest and they seem to be doing well. We are noticing some people having problems with allergies and sinus problems so we're working hard with those folks here at the office to get them doing better. It's not always allergies but just breathing in the pollen of the late fall flowers and all the Dust and pollen from the crops being harvested.        In October we are looking at inflammation in our health shop classes and...

  Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-             Aren’t the trees beautiful? Fall is such a beautiful time of year and the weather has been outstanding. I hope you were able to get outside and increase your vitamin D stores for the winter. Remember that vitamin D is activated by sunlight so it’s important to get some. Vitamin D is also an oil soluble vitamin so you must be consuming good fats in order to have a good vitamin D source. If you get into the science of vitamin D, you’ll find it comes from cholesterol so the mainstream medicines war on cholesterol causes vitamin D levels to be low and this causes lots of immune system problems and other issues. We help our patients be able to digest and absorb fats and watch that their vitamin D levels are optimum.             The article I’m sending along this week looks at screenings and mammograms and how they can be...