“You know, Dr. Fox,” a patient said to me, “this visualization and affirmation stuff sounds suspiciously like positive thinking.” Yes and no. Positive thinking is saying it, either out loud or in your mind. I combine that with seeing it and feeling yourself already being, doing and having all the good things you desire. The [...]
In one of my previous books, The Beverly Hills Medical Diet, I introduced an exercise I called wogging: a combination of walking and jogging. I explained how I wogged through Beverly Hills in the morning or evening, alternately walking one block and jogging one block, past the beautiful homes and shops. I’ve added a new [...]
But Dr. Fox,” some patients complain, Food is so much fun! It’s my only enjoyment in life.” I answer that food and eating should always be pleasurable, but food and eating are not, and should not be, the sole enjoyment in life. Life has a great deal else to offer: love, friendship, beauty, nature, knowledge, [...]
To make matters worse, thanks to at least three medical fallacies, our physicians often harm our “doctor within”. One of these is the idea that health is an either/or situation, with nothing in between. We physicians tend to see a patient as either healthy or diseased. If the person is sick, treat the disease. If [...]
Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease in which the joints become painful, swollen and warm, due to internal inflammation. There are characteristic changes in the level of certain factors in the blood that help to confirm die diagnosis. Contradictory results from different trials are often due to a failure to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis properly. This disease [...]