Rebalancing Brain Chemistry / Dr Walsh

I never heard the term pyroluria mentioned during my residency in psychiatry, which is kind of crazy, given that it is not at all rare and can profoundly effect mental health. It is a condition found in many people who have serious psychiatric disorders, including severe depression, anxiety, mood swings, explosiveness and violent behavior,  alcoholism, memory…

Last summer I stumbled upon the work of Dr. William Walsh of the Walsh Research Institute, when he was interviewed by Dave Asprey on the Bulletproof Podcast. I was instantly struck with Dr. Walsh’s character; his authenticity, accessibility and humanitarian stance, as well as the groundbreaking scientific work that he has been doing for more than 30 years. He is…

Adequate blood levels of Vitamin D in my patients are very rare. Everyone I have tested who is not supplementing with Vitamin D is deficient. According to the thoughtful and public health minded neurologist Stasha Gominak, MD, an expert in Vitamin D, we need levels of 60-80 ng/ml in order to sleep normally. There is…

I recently undertook an 8 day cleanse. The most powerful benefit resulted from following the recommendation to stop all supplements that were not absolutely essential. I had been feeling unusually tired, which was part of the rationale for undertaking the cleanse in the first place. I thought that it might do me good to get…

In this post I would like to share my surprising experience since recently introducing gelatin powder as a supplement into my diet. Supplementation with gelatin became of interest to me, as I was no longer able to eat the nutritious long simmered gelatin rich bone broths and stews that are so healing to the digestive…