These Simple Tips for Healthy Relationships cover the full range from working on yourself to sharing with others, communicating your feelings clearly, and not saying things out of anger when you feel hurt or victimized. Begin with yourself; knowing...
This is the season of re-birth. Take a deep look at where you are and feel what you no longer need in your life, what no longer serves who you want to be. This is the season to plan your new year, for the new YOU. Creativity is the word for Spring...
This is an article about thinking simply, in a new way, and using commonsense in your choices about your health. A choice I often recommend is cleaning up your act, your relationships, your planet, and supporting you to lighten up and heal. I...
It dawned on me suddenly not more than 10 minutes into a presentation I was giving at a recent symposium for Exceptional Cancer Patients (ECaP) in Michigan. The topic was "survival" as it relates to the extraordinary challenges of living with cancer...
People, especially older folks, generally don't talk about being depressed. The symptoms of depression vary considerably and are hard to diagnose, especially when growing older for some seems to imply that these symptoms are expected to occur. In...
Are you musical? In "Got Rhythm? the first of a 2-part series on recreational music-making" Barry Bittman, M.D. relates how most people shy away from even volunteering a response to this question...at least initially. Yet when given the chance to...
Although the body readily makes most of the fat that it needs from dietary starch or sugar, humans lack the ability to make essential fatty acids (EFAs) and must get them in food. EFAs are found in all foods but are most abundant in certain oils...
We all age, but the deterioration associated with aging (called, senescence) is partly under our control. Senescence is speeded up by toxicity and our bodies' response to it. The human body has many natural defenses against environmental toxicity...
If you're convinced there's nothing you can do to prevent cancer, then "Cancer Prevention: what we need to know" by Barry Bittman, M.D just might change your mind. He explores the relationships between diet, tobacco, alcohol consumption and cancer...
Deep within the essence of who we are there's a sound, a vibration, an emanation that expresses life from every cell. As a physician focused on integrative medicine within the traditional healthcare setting Dr. Barry Bittman in "Deep Within:...
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