Adrenaline and Body Clues to Stress

Are you feeling afraid of this current viral crisis the world is experiencing? Is it only in your mind?  What’s going on in your body? Many years ago, Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist who transformed the field of psychology, became aware that some...

More Immune Tips

After I completed my doctorate in biochemistry I took a fellowship in immunology at the University of California and for many years taught PNI – psychoneuroimmunology – the meeting of mind and molecules. Think of your immune system as your healing system...

Tips for Immune Health

Since Ultimate Immunity, my new book, is now available to be ordered, I thought that I’d start adding some wisdom about immune health here. I got into learning about immune functions when I was accepted as a post-doctoral fellow in immunology-hematology at UCSF...

Vitamin B12

Last night I watched the Dr. Oz Show and when he started to talk about the symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency, I paid attention.  Almost everything he mentioned – fatigue, low energy,mood swings,  poor memory, tingling, a few more – I was experiencing. ...

Beyond the French Paradox

The better cardiovascular health among the French people compared to Americans has been a puzzle. Even though the French eat a lot more saturated fat (meat, cheese, butter), smoke more, and exercise less, the French have forty percent fewer heart attacks. Initially,...