Just because it’s on the shelf does not mean it’s been studied or should be presumed to be non-toxic. We know that sugar is toxic, but what about the popular sugar alternative, Splenda?...

Despite your OB’s concerns on one hand about mercury in fish – while somehow blithely injecting thimerosol-containing (ethylmercury) flu shots, on the other – many women...

The day has come and your little bundle is here. The wonder of it is overwhelming: this human grew out of two cells, inside you, and despite those last couple of days feeling like a year each, all...

My monthly radio show, Fearless Medicine, hosted by Fearless Parent, continues this Wednesday, January 15, 2014, at 11am EST, with a look at holistic midwifery.

Are Preterm Babies and High Stress Moms at Higher Risk from Pesticides?

A new animal study published in Neurotoxicology and Teratology aimed to explore several of the variables that can...

My friend Sarah, instructor and visionary behind Happy Healthy Child brought me to the second Kundalini yoga class of my life, recently. I’ve been doing yoga for 20 years, and have...

I hope that you are ready to open your mind, heart, and body to a new perspective on mental health and wellness; one that I feel is long overdue. When I am not with patients, I am reading primary...

Understand 4 principal tenets that may be undermining your current understanding of the efficacy and safety of antidepressants.

“She has a remarkable ability to engage in a task. We use her as a model for the other kids, to show them what we want out of the journaling project,” said my daughter’s nursery...