By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

I don't think you can live without stress; I think the human life is stressful, and it probably always has been, although the forms of stress may change from culture to culture, and from time to time.

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.