Our country is facing an epidemic of unprecedented proportions that is affecting over 2 million Americans, many times fatally.  Opioid addiction.  Although drug addiction is hardly a new problem for the US and many other countries around the globe, we are now faced with a problem that’s quickly spiraling out of control.

Right now if you’re a woman over 50, you stand about a one in five chance of developing osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is a factor behind 9 million fractures worldwide each year, with the most serious being hip fractures.  One in four people who suffer a hip fracture die within a year and at least 60 percent require long-term nursing care and never regain their independence.

The Body Mass Index (BMI) was designed to take a defined look at someone's height and weight to assess overweight and obesity.

A BMI of less than 18.5 is considered underweight; 18.5-24.9 is normal; 25.0 – 29.9 is overweight and 30.0 or greater is obese.

If I were to ask you what causes heart disease, I’m sure you would say “high cholesterol.”

Of course you would.  Drug companies have been very effective in programming you to believe that cholesterol causes heart disease so they can sell you statins and create a customer for life.

The truth is, cholesterol has gotten a bad rap that it doesn’t deserve.  Cholesterol is your body’s healing salve (among the many other roles it plays), so when your body senses inflammation in your arterial walls, cholesterol is summoned to the scene to work its magic.

When someone says “osteoporosis,” most people think, “Eat more dairy products!”

But when kidney stones are brought up, the opposite is true— “You’re eating too much dairy!”

Well, there’s a lot more to it than that.

About 8 million people in the US suffer regular attacks of pain, swelling, and inflammation in their joints, otherwise known as gout. 

Gout is typically the result of one of two things—too much uric acid being created by your body, or too little uric acid being eliminated.