Secrets for linking food choices to how you look and feel and for alleviating common health complaints.

The way you think can directly affect healing and health. Learn more about Mind-Body Medicine, and how you can benefit.

Learn how to consciously address your emotions and switch on the powerful healing potential within.

Dr. Ginger explains the many health benefits of infra-red saunas.

Learn how to tap into your true, authentic self.

Breast cancer survivors can increase their odds of living a long, disease-free life by eating whole foods.

Intermittent fasting has been practiced for centuries but is now making a pretty big comeback. Why? Because, research shows it can add years to your life.

This hot fitness trend isn't only popular...it's extremely healthy.

Yoga can be healing for your mind, body and heart. Discover how you can incorporate yoga into your life... anywhere, anytime.

You would think having a lot of excess fat would make you a good candidate for liposuction. Unfortunately, that's not the case.

Inflammation is the way your body responds to a problem. Whether battling an infection or cancer, or healing from a bone fracture, your body needs to deliver powerful immune and repair cells to the impaired location through your bloodstream in order to fight and fix the problem.

Inflammation is really designed to be an acute process that gets in and out quickly. The longer the immune and repair cells stay in a location, the greater the chance they'll actually cause damage to surrounding healthy cells and tissues.

Chronic inflammation, simply put, is acute inflammation that did not resolve properly. The result is damage and disease. This is why we call chronic inflammation the common denominator of all age-related disorders.

Is alternative medicine right for you? Learn some of the healing benefits of a natural approach to health.

There's a new drug that effectively treats autoimmune diseases such as MS, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia and Crohn's.

Tart cherries provide relief from everyday muscle pain and aches without dangerous side effects.

Massage therapy used to be just a way to relax. But these techniques are now proving to be beneficial for a whole host of specific conditions.

You are what you eat. Learn which foods can help promote self-healing.

Magnesium deficiency is at epidemic proportions in the U.S. and could be a root cause of many of America’s health problems.

Learn how to tap into the power of self healing.

Antacid medications stop your body from performing its normal digestive processes and in the long run do more harm than good.

Common sleeping pills don’t help you get sound, healing sleep...they just knock you out. There are safer, more effective alternatives.

Looking for an easy way to improve your health and wellness -- and even lose some weight? Try green juicing.

Learn how you can rise above disease through the power of humor with Jollytologist Allen Klein.

Finally, a solution for you to lose weight and maintain a svelte, sexy body!

Lyme disease can essentially rewire the brain and dramatically affect your personality.

Everyone needs a little R&R every once in a while. But for those times when you need extra rejuvenation, could a wellness retreat help?

There is an emotional side to treating cancer that can be equally important through diagnosis, treatment and beyond.

It has long been thought that diet can help manage Epileptic seizures. But can it really?

Is the medical community finally embracing Chelation therapy? Learn why this treatment is so beneficial.

When news stories are full of terrible disasters, do you know just how much to let your children watch? How can you help them understand?

Everyone is talking about Vitamin D, but is it something everyone should take? Currently, we are including a vitamin D level on most routine laboratory exams, but labs will never tell the whole story. Let's look at conditions associated with vitamin D deficiency.

The flu – In our profession of natural medicine we do not believe a person gets the flu from being sneezed on, breathed or from a door handle. We believe you get it because your immune system is not up to par. In a study published in the Cambridge Journals, it was discovered that vitamin D deficiency might lead children to respiratory diseases. A study was than conducted which showed that vitamin D reduced the incidence of respiratory infections in children. There is no reason in my opinion to think that the same protection wouldn’t be available for adults.

Muscle weakness – There are many reasons for muscle weakness, which include a lack of healthy protein and exercise in the diet. However, according to Michael F. Holick, a leading vitamin D expert, muscle weakness is usually caused by vitamin D deficiency.  He states that for skeletal muscles to function properly, their vitamin D receptors must be sustained by vitamin D. Interesting.

Psoriasis - Vitamin D, along with Zinc, vitamin A, beta-carotene, and essential fatty acids have been a stalwart of treatment for chronic skin conditions including psoriasis. In a study published by the UK PubMed central, it was discovered that synthetic vitamin D analogues were found useful in the treatment of psoriasis. Hmmm.

Do you have trouble losing weight, no matter how much you diet and exercise? You may be suffering from a broken metabolism.

Simply put, my patients are intimidated by the phrase "mind-body" connection. As a cardiologist, the majority of my patients are in their 5th-8th decades of life, and they look at the "mind-body" connection in three ways.

The first is as a 70's pot smoking, acid dropping rebel. The second is as a pagan (not necessarily bad as many of my seniors have embraced eastern religions) monk who lives a simple life and meditates on a daily basis, or third as a pious Christian holy person who hits their knees in supplication on a daily basis and is a regular confession.

I explain to them what their simple mistake is; the mind-body connection does not have to be a mind-body-spirit connection; especially at first.

With any chronic disease there is either a life threatening aspect to it, a quality-of-life threatening aspect, or both. A person's perspective on their disease state can be doom and gloom, a hand-over of power, or an embracement of the issue to learn about who they are.

Medically, we know that negative emotions decrease the healing systems of the body, including the neurological system with neurotransmitters (hard to get well with adrenaline shooting though veins all day), the immune system, the endocrine system, as well as the inflammatory/anti-inflammatory components of the body.

As a Naturopathic Doctor and cardiologist I split my time between heart and everything else about 60/40, so when a 16 year old with rheumatoid arthritis was coming in I wasn't surprised.

However when she showed up, I found a fluid-bloated young girl in a wheel chair.

Turns out she was maxed on medication including steroids and a drug which has a side effect of lymphoma. The mother was overweight with poor skin, the father refused to come saying that the daughter was already seeing the finest physicians in the world at the Mayo Clinic.

I did a brief physical and had an explanation that because of her food and life habits, along with environmental toxicity, her body had become allergic to her joints. The family although reasonably wealthy, lived on processed (junk) foods. The mother stated that the other two children where obese, and that the father although thin, had a heart attack before the age of fifty.

I explained to the mom that they had a toxic and sick house, and that all the junk food needed to go. I arranged for one of my interns to take the family to Whole Foods, and the mother started to cry.

Can you rehabilitate and train shelter dogs to become service animals for special needs children?

As a naturopathic doctor and author, I lecture quite frequently all across the country. Last week I was on the blue-line train from O'Hare to downtown Chicago to address a group of doctors on subclinical hypothyroidism. As I approached the city, I thought, What the heck?, and decided to connect with my friend Maddy, who lives downtown. To my surprise, Maddy was on the green-line train coming home from work and free to meet after my lecture. I was thrilled! We had a wonderful time catching up on all aspects of our lives. She was upbeat as she shared that her career and finances were better than ever been and that she was beginning to date someone she really liked. But there was one area of her life that she was quite frustrated with—her overall health.

She looked at me and said simply, "Hol, my body is doing funny things, and I don't like it." It was obvious that she had gained some weight, but I asked her to be more specific and look beyond the weight gain. She told me that her annual blood work showed elevated cholesterol levels and the doctor had diagnosed her as prediabetic, with her blood sugar regularly running high and blood pressure measuring slightly high. I then asked her a myriad of questions regarding her lifestyle, diet, and habits—similar questions I would ask patients in my practice.

Many Americans feel that it is harder to find Dr. Right than Mr. or Ms. Right. So, what are Americans really looking for in a doctor?

We discuss the many diet theories surrounding ADHD including Megavitamin Therapy, Feingold Diet, Elimination Diets and more.

Research proves that exercise not only improves the quality of life - it decreases the incidence of disease, chronic health conditions and obesity.

The right tools allow our bodies to heal faster, better, and stronger both physically and emotionally.

Nearly 40,000 women will die from breast cancer this year. This natural approach shows how you can protect yourself against breast cancer.

Actor Robby Benson helps patients and their loved ones navigate through open-heart surgery and recovery with knowledge and humor.

Family physician and New York Times-bestselling author Mike Moreno believes you're only as young as your least healthy body part.

7-Time Olympic medalist, Shannon Miller, shares the story of her difficult journey from superstar athlete to cancer survivor.