According to the CDC, longstanding or frequent pain affects over 70 million Americans!  Out of that total, 50 million reported having “chronic pain” defined as pain that has lasted at least three months, and the other 20 million suffer from “high-impact chronic pain” which frequently limits their life or work activities.  With all that pain going on, people are naturally desperate for relief…so they typically turn to their local pharmacy.  The most popular types...

  What if I told you that aging, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Type II diabetes, cataracts and arthritis are all caused or worsened by the same health-wrecking "monster?"  This creature is inside all of us, and it isn't always a bad guy...but when it's allowed to get out of control for a long enough period of time it will unleash its wrath.  Then your health can begin to crumble and/or you start...

  Back in my health insurance days in the early 80s, I used to have a boss (Paul) that smoked cigars pretty much nonstop.  As you may recall (if you are as old as me LOL), smoking used to be allowed in public places, including business offices.  So we would witness Paul lighting up throughout the day.    Besides the stench of what I assumed were cheap cigars, I was very aware of Paul’s breathing, which...

  This probably won’t surprise you, but I’ve long stopped watching mainstream media news because it disgusts me.  Talk about fear mongering, sensationalism and drama—some of these well-groomed puppets ought to win Academy Awards.  And the thing is, they will only talk about what their pharma and special interest sponsors allow them to report…so many times a truly imperative issue is slanted or swept under the rug because it would ruffle the wrong feathers.  Well,...

  Normally, this time of year we can count on being bombarded by signs EVERYWHERE saying, “Get your flu shot!  It’s your best protection against the flu!”  But this year’s push has a unique twist.  Because not only are they pushing flu shots, but also COVID jabs and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) shots too.  Before you get caught up in the inevitable fear-mongering that the mainstream media will undoubtedly be unleashing, let me enlighten you...

  Back in the early 70s when I was a kid there was a song by the 5th Dimension called “(Last night) I didn’t get to sleep at all,” sung beautifully by the immensely talented Marilyn McCoo.  While the idea behind the song is her inability to sleep because her love interest was on her mind, one line of the song that is particularly intriguing is the one where she sings, “The sleeping pill I...