Dr. Kerry Burnight is the Chief Gerontologist at GrandPad, a company that designs simple and easy to use electronic tablets for people 75 and older. New technology presents a wealth of opportunities for connecting with others. Family members across t...

At the risk of plagiarizing my good friend Dr. Georgia Ede, the only life-shortening aspect of Low Carb is reading drivel from the recently published Lancet study and slamming my head so hard with my hand that I sustain a concussion....

Again, the weekends are pretty chill, which actually makes eating strictly a bit harder. I need routine to flourish. Even if I lived on a deserted island, I would create routine at some point to keep sane. Part of the weekend routine is access to ...

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering a single, significant question. It concerns the latest “anti-low-carb” study claiming that we’re all killing ourselves by not eating bread. A reader wonders if the study is legit and if we should be wor...

Modern lifestyles filled with nutrient poor diets, chronic stress and little down time can wreak havoc on hormones. Most of my clients come to me with hormonal issues such as HPA axis dysfunction, period irregularities, fertility issues, bad PMS and/...

You have exactly TWO weeks to plan … the #SeptemberWhole30 starts on Monday, September 3, 2018. Yep! That’s right. We’re starting on the U.S. Labor Day holiday, Monday the 3rd, because there’s no better way to celebrate end-of-summer than with a Whol...

We all are exposed to stress. Some of us deal with it well. Many of us don’t. Did you know that chronic stress can destroy the gut? All of us must respect the damaging effects of continuous stress on the body. In 2015, I wrote about a patient who exp...

In this interview on Mind Pump TV, we answer the question “What is the best diet if I’m looking to improve my gut health?”Sal Di Stefano: Hey, what’s up, everyone? Welcome back. I’m here with Dr. Michael Ruscio, author of Healthy Gut, Healthy You. By...

Will a ketogenic diet or very low carbohydrate diet kill you? Will it increase your likely hood of death?  That’s what the media and the dietary world is saying this week. Is it really true? How do you know? That’s the question that I ponder as I smo...

Roughly half of all Americans suffer from insomnia, and according to the National Center for Sleep Disorders, around 15% of the population deals with chronic insomnia on a daily basis. What’s more, the WHO (World Health Organization) considers shift...