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• January 30, 2012 - Franz Kafka’s The Trial and My New Health Benefits Booklet

  The huge envelope sat outside my front door, glaring discontentedly like an alien kept away from a protected compound. In actual fact, the envelope, labeled “Important Benefits Booklet,” contained my new 2012 Evidence of Coverage with Partial 2012 Drug Formulary. At 350+ pages, this could scarcely be called a booklet. It had been awaiting my... » read more

• January 23, 2012 - Dentist Anxieties? Fear of Flying?

  One of my favorite books has always been the 1964 classic The Myth of Mental Illness, by Thomas Szasz, MD. A psychiatrist and still writing at the ripe age of 91, Szasz castigated his fellow professionals for labeling too many people with relatively mild emotional symptoms “mentally ill,” especially when it came to medicating or... » read more

• January 16, 2012 - The Anxiety in Your Gut

  Posted 01/17/2012 “That gut feeling.” We’ve all experienced it, but we may have difficulty describing the sensation. We sense or “know” something internally, feeling butterflies in our stomach, almost as if our entire intestinal tract were a second brain, low on reflective skills but high on intuitive ones. During the past decade an... » read more

• January 9, 2012 - WholeHealth Chicago and Kids?

  Posted 1/09/2012 The short answer is “We welcome kids”. The longer answer is we’re here if your child has a problem and you want to see if an integrative approach will help. None of us is a pediatrician and we really would prefer that your child have a primary care pediatrician or family practitioner for... » read more

• January 2, 2012 - Prostate Cancer Screening: The New PSA Controversy

  Posted 1/2/2012 Nobody wants to deal with cancer, but unfortunately as we all get older we enter the realm of increased cancer risk. Around age 30, when we finally shed the delusion that we’re not immortal, we start taking better care of ourselves. We stop smoking, eat healthier, exercise a bit, abandon skydiving as a... » read more

• December 25, 2011 - 2012: Time for Mini-Resolutions

  As we approach the new year, here are a dozen or so small resolutions that will boost your health, are likely to prolong your life, and will just make you feel good:   1. Have one small square of dark chocolate each day. 2. Use more garlic in your cooking. 3. Have a cup or... » read more

• December 19, 2011 - Important News About Hormone Therapy

  It was almost 20 years ago that I first learned about bioidentical hormone therapy from a talk given by Christiane Northrup, MD, (author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause) at the first meeting I ever attended of the American Holistic Medical Association. By the way, the line-up of speakers included not... » read more

• December 12, 2011 - A Newly Discovered Cause of Women’s Fatigue

  Given the number of women who walk around feeling tired all the time, it’s truly unfortunate that the important piece of research we’re discussing today didn’t generate more publicity. Tucked away in the small-circulation medical journal Thyroid, whose readership is probably limited to endocrinologists specializing in thyroid disorders,... » read more

• December 5, 2011 - Medical Sexism and Fibromyalgia

  My new book, Healing Fibromyalgia, was published last week and I’ll venture that sales are soaring into the high single digits. The e-book is available here and a pre-publication discount is available on the paperback. The total number of fibromyalgia patients worldwide is jaw-dropping and the situation is much worsened by the medical... » read more

• November 29, 2011 - Fibromyalgia Quiz

  From Healing Fibromyalgia, by David Edelberg, MD How Do I Know If I Have Fibro? Take the Quiz Even if you’ve already been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, take the quiz to gain a better understanding of fibro’s underpinnings. Because fibro is not a disease per se and offers your doctor no positive test results on which... » read more