Recommendation (Website) - Dr. Ben King

My latest method for searching the internet for plausible alternative therapies is to type in a symptom combined with another keyword.  For example I'll type muscle pain and oxygen, which brings up a number of interesting leads.  Most of the websites that I come across are aggregator sites such as livestrong.com or the huffingtonpost.com or superficial websites designed to give no or misleading information in an attempt to get you to buy whatever products they are selling.  However occasionally, I come across a website with information that appears, to me, to provide actual content.

One website that I recently found was that of Dr. Ben King, an acupuncturist and chiropractor in Toronto.  I have read some very insightful articles on health, symptoms, and treatments on Dr. King's website and thought I'd share.  Click here to be taken to Dr. King's website.

Recommendation (Restaurant) - Juice Nation

Juice Nation is a juice and organic foods shop in the City of Solana Beach, right on Highway 101 and just a block from the beach.  While looking for good places to get a green smoothie, I happened upon Juice Nation and couldn't be happier that I did.  Delicious smoothies.  Organic.  For anyone with nut allergies or intolerance, make sure to ask for a substitute for their smoothie base (a nut milk made in-house).

Click here for the link to the Juice Nation website.

The Goods (Recommendation) - Grain Brain

Late one night a few months ago, as I flipped through the TV channels, I stopped at the KPBS station (San Diego's PBS affiliate) to watch a show about diet and neurological health.  The speaker was Dr. David Perlmutter, a neurologist, who advocated a new and revolutionary approach to neurological disease (including but not limited to Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS, and Autism).  His approach, which is not mainstream but is backed by a number of scientific studies, largely focuses on diet as a means to prevent, slow down, and/or treat these neurological diseases.

Intrigued, I bought Dr. Perlmutter's book, Grain Brain.  In Grain Brain, Dr. Perlmutter discusses leading theories on the causes of many neurological diseases (primarily gluten and carbohydrate related) and scientific studies on several non-mainstream therapies for these diseases.  The conclusions are simple - stop eating gluten and refined carbohydrates and start eating brain foods.

Interested to find out if Dr. Perlmutter's recommendations could help with my issues (though they were never medically identified as neurological), I experimented with most of his recommendations with noticeable success.  Most of these experiments are already or will be discussed herein at some point, so stay tuned.  But in the meantime, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Grain Brain.