Sugar is everywhere. Even if the labels on food packaging don’t explicitly say “sugar,” there are a dozen other forms that it takes that cause the same effects on your body. These include the notorious high fructose corn syrup, but also agave nectar and honey. What does this have to do with breast cancer? Quite a bit, both directly and indirectly. Directly, a recent study showed that intake of sugar sweetened beverages was a direct cause of higher mortality in those with known breast cancer diagnosis. That means, that measuring only intake of these beverages and removing the influence of obesi ..read more

October is a great month to discuss breast cancer and how the Holistic General Surgeon approach can help patients better deal with their diagnosis, the stress of surgery, and recovery from it all. Today, I will suggest remedies to optimize the relationship between sleep, breast cancer, and surgery. Sleep research is a hot topic, and the latest information indicates that most people need 8 hours of sleep. Up to 70% of patients with breast cancer report sleep complaints- can’t fall asleep, can’t stay asleep, wake up frequently, poor sleep quality. The stress of breast cancer diagnosis, anticipat ..read more

What is holistic general surgery? It is the practice of general surgery that utilizes and makes the most of complementary and alternative medicine for problems needing surgery and for optimizing how one does through surgery. The holistic, whole patient view, would argue that the systems of the body are linked. Therefore, disease in one system affects another which affects another. For the most part this is ignored by surgeons such as myself, who concentrate on curing the disease with surgery and getting a patient through an operation, and not a lot more than that. Until now. I want to address ..read more