Berkson’s Blogs

If you drench yourself in perfume that contains phthalates, you douse your man in them too. And your baby. And yourself. I love Kiehl’s perfumes. Especially their Vanilla and the old time scent, Rain, or I use essential oils. Avoid all perfumes with phthalates as your body wears and absorbs them all day. And the men in your life, even your son, when exposed to phthalates, are at risk of lower sperm count and altered reproductivity. When you are pregnant, these phalates go from your skin into your blood into the fetal developing reproductive system. Be greener even with perfumes.

Mustard is already healthy. It is a source of turmeric. That’s what produces the yellow color. Turmeric is a very yellow root. I invented a botanical/pharmaceutical drug and I put turmeric in it. And it got yellow everywhere. But plum paste, fermented, is amazingly healthy. It protects the gut from cancer and the teaming microbiome from going bad. So I came up with a healthier mustard version: mix ½ umeboshi plum paste and ½ mustard, I do it right on the gluten free bread I am putting it on. Spread it just like you would mustard or mayo. Research is showing [...]

Connection Everybody wants chemistry with another. To feel connection. To sustain connection. To do so, with our mates, our kids and of course, ourselves, we need empathy. Yet the part of our brain that contains the major circuitry of empathy, is turned off by chronic stress. Our 24/7 stress-filled lifestyle shuts off the blood supply to the empathy part of our brain. We do more but feel less. We connect more poorly to others, as well as ourselves. Stress induced isolation. By shutting off the blood supply we shut off our deeper emotions of connection and caring. John Gray PhD Are [...]

Do BAD times RIGHT. After grieving.. milk them toward ‎DEEPENING‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬.

All sex hormones need “zinc finger” (two atoms of zinc on the C binding domain receptor) to take their signal and deliver it into the gene. Zinc induces cancer cell death in some cancer cell lines like human melanoma cancer. Zinc acts like a natural antibiotic protecting your lungs, your gut lining and even your skin from cystic acne. Zinc and pre and probiotics reduce diarrhea caused by radiation in some cancer treatments. (Anticancer Res. 2015 Oct;35(10):5687-92) Zinc is an amazing mineral and many of us are deficient in our diets or in our digestion of a sufficient diet. Test zinc: [...]

‎SITTING‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ DAMAGE REVERSED Sitting 6 straight hours impairs blood vessels and increases your risk of heart and gut disease. But just walking 10 minutes after an hour of prolonged sitting restores health to the gut and the blood vessels. That means 10 minutes of movement. Not just standing up and sitting down. As I sit in this chair writing I have to remind myself, too. Get up and Move!