A Healthy Perspective with Dr Felice Gersh: Colds and The Flu
This week, I discuss the recent report that the Flu vaccine may not work as well as we thought, and the natural ways you can combat symptoms as the weather gets colder!
How Circadian Rhythm Controls Your Health
We are designed and adapted to work, eat, and move during the day, and to sleep, rejuvenate, and repair at night. We function in perfect harmony with the movements of the planet; even our hormone production is coordinated with the rising and setting of the sun, in a complex system that has evolved over millions…
Testosterone Isn’t Just A Male Hormone: Here’s Why Women Need It As Much As Men
Everyone knows that testosterone is the “male” hormone. It plays a role in sex drive, sperm production, fat distribution, red cell production, and maintenance of muscle strength and mass, and it’s associated with overall health and well-being in men. What many people don’t realize is that it’s important for women, too! In fact, men and…
A Healthy Perspective with Dr Felice Gersh: Pollution & Toxins
This week, I discuss the recent wild fires that have swept through Northern California, the pollution they have released into our atmosphere, and the dietary and lifestyle choices you can make to combat these harmful toxins.
The Habit You Never Knew Was Causing Insomnia & Anxiety
For hundreds of years, scientists have understood that living organisms contain internal clocks. These clocks allow us to anticipate the sun’s rising and setting and control much of our physiology. All life on Earth has evolved to be in alignment with the 24-hour revolution of our planet on its axis, and this alignment has caused…
A Healthy Perspective with Dr Felice Gersh: The Opioid Crisis
This week, I address America’s opioid epidemic, the terrible risks of prescription pain medication, and the natural alternatives for dealing with chronic pain.
The Bigger Picture with Timothy Spangler: Circadian Rhythms
I was invited on to The Bigger Picture with Timothy Spangler to discuss circadian rhythms after the field was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine.
We must treat causes––not symptoms
THE VERY PARADIGM of our health care system is wrong and needs to change. The conventional medical view, supported by the medical-industrial complex, is that the body comprises isolated parts and that doctors must treat symptoms. But the body is an integrated whole: every part of the body is related to every other part of…
Is This Surprising Habit Causing Your Irregular Periods?
For some of us, travel means a fun annual vacation. For others, it’s an integral part of our lives and careers. Whatever the reason for your travel, it can definitely wreak havoc with your hormones.
Our bodies mirror the acts of nature — change is the only constant!
STABILITY AND CONSTANCY. Clearly nothing on our planet speaks to those words. In fact, in the wet shadow of the hurricanes which recently devastated Florida, Texas and so much of the Caribbean, and in the aftermath of the tremendously powerful Mexico City earthquake, stability seems quite far-fetched. But in reality, those destructive natural events drive…