Like Layna, I had the pleasure this last weekend of attending the Orthomolecular Health Medicine conference in San Francisco. The OHM is an organization of health practitioners who believe in Linus Pauling’s idea that health is preserved by maintaining biochemical balance and that illness is a consequence of imbalance, so that when balance is restored health returns. “Biochemical” here means vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, bio-identical hormones, and other molecules that are a part of your body’s normal processes. [Read more…]

Science is about the truth, isn’t it? It is—and much, much more.

Last week I commented on the science that’s been coming out of the Women’s Health Initiative, science that seems to show that beliefs deeply held by conventional health experts are wrong. This week the media carried front page stories about “what it all means.” [Read more…]

What does “healthy eating” mean? On occasion I have a conversation that goes something like this: I tell someone I study health issues; they say, “Oh, you probably eat a healthy diet;” they are then surprised to find out that not only am I not a vegetarian, but that I get around 60% of my energy from fat and less than 15% from carbohydrates. Our culture has created an informational smog around what to eat that equates health with a vegetarian, low fat diet. [Read more…]

The San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday edition featured an article on nuclear power as the green energy alternative. The article focused on how to economically meet a dramatic increase in electricity demand that’s projected over the next 30 years. [Read more…]