A healthcare system is effective only when it offers you what you need. When you need it. For a reasonable fee.
This was the genesis of this blog. All of my patients need great data on changing their lifestyle to decrease their risk of acute and chronic disease. They want to feel better, lighter, and faster everyday and look forward to future with less risk of heart disease and cancer. I have only about an hour of your time each year, and much of that hour is consumed with procedures and documentation. On the way home from my office, you will pass a half dozen fast food joints going in any direction. Or you can just grab a cheeseburger and fries at the hospital cafeteria before you go home.
It’s hard for me to get any real work done, in that little tiny hour once a year, while I’m preparing lab slips and mammogram order sheets. We live in a toxic food environment. It’s a long time between office visits. My influence, while powerful, is getting drowned out in the daily buzz.
This blog allows you and anyone on this planet who wants great data on nutrition and health to access that information anytime. In the comfort of your home. With your family first thing in the morning. At the lunch hour at work. Over a tearful cheescake binge in the middle of the night, alone in the kitchen, while everyone sleeps. It’s here for you anytime, anywhere that internet can be accessed, and it’s free. Always will be. Our healthcare industry is great at offering you acute care in times of trauma and scheduled care for chronic disease for a hefty price, but we are lousy at providing good preventative care. I’d like to change that with this here little ‘ole blog.
The other thing we are lousy at is providing hope. Your health, and your children’s health, is held in your own two hands. You tell your DNA how to replicate, and by methylation and hydroxylation of the strands, epigenetics create diabetes and heart disease. Healthy relationships, good sleep, and great nutrition allow people to flourish in health and strength. While terrible things happen everyday, science has proven that lifestyle contributes to virtually 100% of heart attacks and at least 50% of all cancers. Imagine what good choices can do for simple things, like diabetes and hypercholesterolemia. If you want to get healthy and stay healthy, you can. If you want to avoid terrible diseases, you can reduce your risks for those diseases. Genetics plays only a small part in disease. You determine your destiny.
So you are here, which is the right place at the right time, for you to receive some good health information. Have fun browsing around and reading old blogs.
I hope you like the price too.
I wish you were my doctor! But I live in California so its not possible. I enjoy your blogs. They help me stay vegan and healthy. Thank you
Thanks! I appreciate your approach to health, it’s not easy to find a healthcare provider that doesn’t approach my health concerns with pills.
Thanks for reading Sandra! And congratulations on taking control of your health with a vegan diet!
I agree. Keep seeking out alternative sources of information.
I feel so fortunate to have found you for my doctor. It’s hard to find someone that you feel is on the same page with preventive health. The first time I came to you, I knew I found a fit for me. I appreciate how you take time to listen, offer healthy suggestions and not just another prescription. I love your blog, read it faithfully, make your recipes and share them with others to help them see how delicious vegan recipes can be and encourage others to be responsible for their own health by making healthy choices daily. Appreciate your blog and all the encouragement we receive from you. Also, I never dread it when it’s time to visit your office as you and your staff (including your sweet little doggies) make your patients feel comfortable and cared about…. plus you walk your talk.
MARY,HUBBY READ ME A BLURB FROM AN ONLINE ARTICLE HE FOUND THAT ‘EATING FRIED FOODS DOES NOT CONTRIBUTE TO HEART PROBLEMS’. WHAT SAY YOU? I COULDN’T BELIEVE THAT WAS PRINTED AND SINCE I WAS SICK,I WASN’T THAT INTERESTED IN DETAILS. I’LL BE SURE TO ASK HIM WHERE HE READ IT AND LOOK INTO IT MORE.
YOU’RE DOING A FABULOUS JOB HERE AND I’M GLAD TO READ ALL THE INFO YOU POST! YOUR PATIENTS ARE VERY BLESSED TO HAVE SUCH A CARING AND KNOWLEDGEABLE DOCTOR.AND I’M PROUD TO SAY THAT I KNEW YOU BACK IN THE DAY AND AM NOT A BIT SURPRISED AT WHERE YOU ARE NOW!
I too am thrilled to have found a caring, compassionate, non-pill-pushing MD that is right on – we are in charge of our health (or 90% of it). Thank you for your blog and practice. I hesitate to say “practice” because you got it right Dr. Mary!
What a sweet email! Thanks so much JoAnn!
Anne, oils used in frying contain very unhealthy fats. In addition to fried food being too high in fat content, it’s also the worst kind of fats. I’m sorry that your husband ran across such a misleading article. You should cook with limited, and preferably no refined oil in your diet.
Keep up the hard work, Jay Ann! And thank you for your complimentary email!
Dr. Mary,
I was blessed to hear you give a presentation last fall and I was very impressed. It was so refreshing to hear a young physician present a common sense, natural way to treat our bodies.
I was wondering your opinion of the medication Prolia for osetopenia? My Dr. wants me to take it, but it is very expensive.
Your blog is very informative and enjoy the recipes!!
Thank you.
Prolia is very expensive, but it is a valuable new drug for managing osteoporosis. Osteoporotic bone is different. While bone experts beleive that we can reverse osteopenia (early bone loss) with diet and exercise, they do not think that we can reverse osteoporosis as easily, if at all.
I love to think about osteoporosis. If you would like to call the office, we could talk about your condition. Leave your number with Julie, and I’ll call you back when I have some time to talk. 231-935-3549