Opening Up

Wine lovers talk about how a wine opens up once its let out of the bottle. When we pour wine into our glass and swirl, we’re helping the wine open up.  It softens and release its many volatile components into the air, and our nose.  A lot more happens, of...

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...

My HUFFINGTON POST BLOGS

INSIDE WINE – Beauty In the bottle. 5 WAYS TO REPLENISH YOUR ENERGY. SHAPING TASTE: Instinctual Intelligence – where do our words for taste come from? HEALING CHALLENGES- What can we do?

Healing our Genes

Many years ago when  I used to do cancer research I was surprised when people didn’t always fit into their statistical outcomes – some lived way beyond what their biology predicted, others who ‘should have lived’ based on the biology...

SPIRIT OF THE GRAPE

Have you ever wondered why the grape is the only fruit that gives us elixirs so heavenly they are called divine? Why not kiwi or pineapple, apple or date wines? What is so unique about the grape that it has had a cult like following since ancient times? The grape and...