Berkson’s Blogs

Steps to Slow Skin Aging & New Science About Soy, Eggs & Skin Protection

2018-08-10T20:19:45-05:00

Oxygen is essential for life. But it’s high maintenance. It comes at a cost. When we use oxygen during normal cellular functions to keep us alive and kicking, dangerous reactive oxygen species (ROS) also get produced. These cause aging and cancer. This mechanism happens right inside your skin. As you go outside to hike, bike, golf, or paddle board, your skin is exposed to the sun. There is a good news and bad news part of this story. The good news is that your skin then initiates the rather multi-stepped process of production of vitamin D. This helps you absorb nutrients, [...]

Steps to Slow Skin Aging & New Science About Soy, Eggs & Skin Protection2018-08-10T20:19:45-05:00

What happens when we eat? (if there’s a hidden parasite) By Berkson

2019-02-06T11:59:09-06:00

You go to a salad bar. Everything looks so colorful, crispy, and tasty. You don’t know it and can’t see it, but there may be some fungus lurking or even a parasite right inside that healthy-looking lettuce or shredded carrots or in that pile of garbanzo beans. It may have come from the hands of a food handler back in the kitchen who wasn’t wearing gloves. They may not know they are contaminated. Or they may not have washed their hands adequately. Or it may have come in from the water the veggies were washed with. You swallow, and these pathogens [...]

What happens when we eat? (if there’s a hidden parasite) By Berkson2019-02-06T11:59:09-06:00

Epigenetics, Hormones & Hope

2019-04-03T09:56:51-05:00

It’s never to late to LIVE your dreams, not just DREAM them. By Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson   Ever buy into the American hypnotic spell that only youth is better? Consider this. My dear friend and I worked out together. Liz is an iconic physical therapist who really knows the secrets of the body. She’s a deep, insightful woman. After critiquing each other’s gym postures and laughing a lot, we cooled off over protein shakes. We started talking about the wisdom that is unveiled after being in practice for many years—for her, almost thirty years, and for me, over 40. Liz [...]

Epigenetics, Hormones & Hope2019-04-03T09:56:51-05:00

10 Reasons Younger Men Have Less Healthy Testosterone by Berkson

2019-04-03T10:08:14-05:00

Too many young men, in their 20's and up, can have a gorgeous woman stand right in front of them, but the dashboards on their physiology blink warning, system break down. What’s up with that? Younger males are seeking out erectile dysfunction clinics. Younger males are being diagnosed with hypogonadism in which the body doesn’t make adequate testosterone or use it properly. There is a growing appreciation that T signals are sputtering. Testosterone is a major sex steroid signaling system that promotes diverse functions in both males and females. In both genders it is well known for it’s sexual actions such [...]

10 Reasons Younger Men Have Less Healthy Testosterone by Berkson2019-04-03T10:08:14-05:00

Fallout for kids with cancer By Berkson

2018-11-15T15:08:51-06:00

Cancer is terrible. If your child is diagnosed you of course want to use all the great guns you can to save them. But these medical miracles are now found to create collateral damage. Down the road, children who were treated with radiation or chemotherapy, have more risk of thyroid problems, thyroid cancer, obesity and even diabetes, than children not exposed to these modalities. Endocrine abnormalities are actually “common” and become increasingly “prevalent” as survivors of childhood cancer start to age. These are findings from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. The point is, now that you know this, while your child [...]

Fallout for kids with cancer By Berkson2018-11-15T15:08:51-06:00

Drugs that Shrink Brain Volume by Berkson

2018-08-23T09:42:12-05:00

Keeping your brain shape healthy is now a major goal of anti-aging and total wellness in general. Yet many drugs that we consider common, safe, and are widely prescribed, are being shown, by irrefutable brain imaging studies, to decrease brain volume and hamper normal brain metabolism in shockingly short periods of time of regularly taking these medications. The drugs that have this shadow side include many over-the-counter allergy, sleep, incontinence and anxiety medications. You need to know the risk versus benefits of any drugs you are taking. If you must take them, work with a medical nutritionist or functional practitioner who [...]

Drugs that Shrink Brain Volume by Berkson2018-08-23T09:42:12-05:00

Knee ergonomics (simple knee fix) by Berkson

2019-02-01T13:46:00-06:00

Six months ago, my left knee developed severe enough pain for me to walk around with a hobble. I work out regularly, eat pretty well, stretch a lot, and usually live a life free of aches and pain. So this was a surprise. And it wasn’t going away. I don’t like my regular gym work out at Pure Austin on Quarry Lake to be hampered. It’s a major way I care take body, mind and spirit. So I went to my go-to-doc, Dr. David Harris, a physiatrist medical doctor at Charm Rejuvenative Medicine. When Dr. Harris ultra sounded my knee he [...]

Knee ergonomics (simple knee fix) by Berkson2019-02-01T13:46:00-06:00

4 Steps To Protect Your Kid’s Wnt Genes And Why You Want To by Berkson

2018-08-23T11:11:41-05:00

Cancer in the colon or rectum (colorectal cancer) is the 3rd leading cause of cancer-related deaths. It’s happening in younger people. It used to occur more in seniors. So it was recommended to start colonoscopy screenings at age 50. But more people are getting more colorectal cancers at younger ages. And, sadly and shockingly, colonoscopies are not the complete detection imaging method that we might have thought (this does not mean you should not get them). Many people and doctors do not realize that this. Colonoscopies detect growths called polyps. Polyps are pedunculated. This means they “hang” down on a stem. [...]

4 Steps To Protect Your Kid’s Wnt Genes And Why You Want To by Berkson2018-08-23T11:11:41-05:00

Resistant BELLY FAT by Berkson

2019-02-18T12:22:18-06:00

Resistant belly fat comes from as much of too LOW or flat lined cortisol levels (tested by 4 or 5 pt saliva testing), as much as too HIGH of cortisol levels. In other words, HPA axis and adrenal dysregulation, oversee visceral as well as subcutaneous fat. The fat in turn feeds back in a feed back cross talk loop manner, inflammatory cytokines (nasty molecules) that further damage HPA axis and adrenal health. It's a cycle that is difficult to break out of unless you work with a medical nutritionist or in the know practitioner. ‎Migraines‬ in ‎kids‬ are linked to nutrient [...]

Resistant BELLY FAT by Berkson2019-02-18T12:22:18-06:00

Walnut Pate’ For Cancer and Brain Protection by Berkson

2019-02-06T12:42:35-06:00

Walnuts are a magically food. They contain ellagic acid. Ellagic acid promotes a healthy and diverse microbiome (good gut bugs). Ellagic acid also is gut wall protective. It promotes appropriate gut wall permeability. Thus, ellagic acid is an immune booster because most of our immune system lives inside the gut wall and performs its job descriptions by constant cross-talk with our gut bugs. Thus ellagic acid, and eating walnuts, helps treat food reactivities as well as many gut problems. It also helps to prevent them. But it’s especially cancer protective. Walnuts fight cancer. In animal models, walnuts, given as part of [...]

Walnut Pate’ For Cancer and Brain Protection by Berkson2019-02-06T12:42:35-06:00

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