Fish oil is one of my top prescriptions in practice because it does all the things: supports healthy mood, heart, skin, fertility, cholesterol, joints, inflammation, really everything. But I recently got a great question from one of my VIP email subscribers: What...
Portlanders are a pretty food-savvy bunch. We know what to ask about the provenance of our food. We pay attention to ingredients, to gluten, to dairy, to grass-fed/free-range/high-omega-3/sustainability parameters (except when we just go for a donut.) So it sometimes...
In late July 2020, a friend invited me to pick newly ripened elderberries in her Portland yard. She’s got two — just two! — of the shrubs growing, and she can’t keep up. Knowing how coveted they are as medicine, she didn’t want them going to waste. I eagerly...
Working in Oregon and Alaska, I see a lot of patients who have issues with seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Most people understand SAD as a depression response to the short, dark days of winter. And indeed, that is the most common form. But summer SAD is also truly...
More folks than ever are getting tested for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Access to testing is great, and long overdue. But the tests themselves remain problematically inaccurate, so remember that a negative test doesn’t necessarily put you in the...
My med-school bestie is starting her first(ish) garden this year. She’s mostly growing veggies in pots, mostly on the porch of her Seattle apartment. She’s found gardening to be a positive thing in her current pandemic reality, soothing and exciting and rewarding....
