by Dr. Dana Flavin | Oct 20, 2017 | Health Matters
We’ve all heard the expression that someone may be a little “buggy.” Well guess what? They just might be. As a physician working primarily with cancer, I didn’t really have any reason to learn much about parasites, other than making sure my patients didn’t...
by Dr. Dana Flavin | Oct 13, 2017 | Health Matters
If you were anything like me, you probably hated broccoli as a child…especially if your mom cooked it like mine did: frozen, thrown into boiling water and cooked for an hour. It slid out on the plate like a dead animal. I hated it. Even the dog hated it! (I did,...
by Dr. Dana Flavin | Sep 8, 2017 | Health Matters
The pure joy of owning a pet is truly special. But that love can also be quietly deadly. A caveat: I love all animals: dogs, cats, even fish and birds. But beware: each one can do you in. Oh not deliberately, but as carriers of other diseases. Let me introduce you...
by Dr. Dana Flavin | Aug 22, 2017 | Health Matters
by Dr. Dana Flavin The word “cancer” actually comes from the Greek word ‘Karkinos’, meaning crab. It was the Greek physician Hippocrates who used that term to describe the disease. But what do we know about this little crab? A crab only goes where the...
by Dr. Dana Flavin | Aug 11, 2017 | Health Matters
Mental deterioration is an ever increasing problem in our world. We are seeing loved ones—even ourselves—becoming more distant, forgetful and exhibiting signs of mental fog. We often write it off to aging when often, these symptoms stem from heavy metals, pesticides...
by Dr. Dana Flavin | Aug 7, 2017 | Health Matters
We can’t get away from it: exercise is important to live longer and healthier. It’s not just for weight loss. Exercise makes your enzymes work better and more efficiently, lowers oxygen radicals, rids the body of excess cholesterol and lowers cancer risk....
