Can Stress Really Mess with your Immune System?

Can Stress Really Mess with your Immune System?

While the challenges of today vary from person to person, I think we can all agree that our collective stress level has reached a fever pitch.  You may have heard of a hormone that often accompanies that stress; it is called cortisol.  Whenever I mention...
The Importance of Blood Work

The Importance of Blood Work

How many of us have ever bought a new car (or new to us) and never changed the oil, never washed it, never changed the air filter, checked the tire pressure, or even filled it up with quality gas for that matter? We need to take care of our car because it takes care...

The Rise and Fall of Germ Theory

The science of medicine came into being about the same time America became a nation. Both political and medical groups debated similar points. Our founding fathers asked, “Can a politically free people exist?” While our medical fathers asked, “Can a physiologically...