Should you go gluten-free?

Contrary to what people think going Gluten-free isn’t always healthy.  A Gluten-free diet, is it good for you? With all the hype about gluten, consumers have come to believe that going gluten-free will give them more energy, help them lose weight, lose their...

The Grape’s Spiritual Purpose?

Is it possible for the grape to have a spiritual purpose that impacts human life? In his best-selling book The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan lyrically describes relationships between humans and plants, from the plant’s point of view. Pollan posits that plants have...

Letting go of pain

I have never read a book twice but this time I knew I had to. I had been dealing with relentless back pain for a few weeks. The book was Norman Doidge’s The Brain’s Way of Healing . Why reread this book? Doidge writes in great detail about the fairly new...

The Heart of Wine and Heart Health

They tell us that wine, especially red wine, is good for our hearts. Certainly the molecules within wine contribute to our heart’s health. This photomicrograph of a red wine (sangiovese) reveals a heart within wine. Though not all red wines express hearts, those...