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Adult-Onset Allergies: What You Need to Know

Sep 24, 2025

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24 min read

Adult-Onset Allergies: What You Need to Know

While it's acknowledged that adults can develop environmental allergies even without a childhood history, precise percentages quantifying this occurrence are not readily available. However, it, too, is not zero. As the global population ages, allergy manifestations among the elderly will become more common in the future. This is the topic we will be discussing in the third and final installment of our immune system series.

David Richards
David Richards
Immunity Starts in the Kitchen, Dietary Essentials

Sep 17, 2025

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26 min read

Immunity Starts in the Kitchen, Dietary Essentials

While genetics and exercise play a role, what we eat can have a significant impact on how well our immune system functions. A well-balanced diet full of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants can support and even boost immune health, while poor dietary choices can weaken immune responses and increase the risk of illness.

David Richards
David Richards
Sweat Your Way to a Stronger Immune System

Sep 10, 2025

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25 min read

Sweat Your Way to a Stronger Immune System

Driven by the pandemic, the human immune system briefly took centre stage as a worldwide concern, and though that concern has somewhat subsided, it remains a forefront topic. With an aging population, I don’t believe that is going to change.

David Richards
David Richards
Neuroscience and Big Goals: How Your Brain Can Help You Succeed Part II: 9 Neuroscience-Backed Strategies to Turn a Big Goal into Tangible Success

Sep 3, 2025

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22 min read

Neuroscience and Big Goals: How Your Brain Can Help You Succeed Part II: 9 Neuroscience-Backed Strategies to Turn a Big Goal into Tangible Success

You probably have a project close to your heart. A slightly blurry dream, tucked somewhere between your to-do lists, busy days... and that small inner voice that hesitates.

Valerie Larouche, MD
Valerie Larouche, MD
Neuroscience and Big Goals: How Your Brain Can Help You Succeed Part I: Why Our Brain Struggles with Big Goals — and How to Understand It Better

Aug 27, 2025

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22 min read

Neuroscience and Big Goals: How Your Brain Can Help You Succeed Part I: Why Our Brain Struggles with Big Goals — and How to Understand It Better

Neuroscience today helps us see what’s happening “under the hood” when we chase a big ambition, and more importantly, how to use that knowledge to move forward more effectively.

Valerie Larouche, MD
Valerie Larouche, MD
Tinctures 101: Nature’s Potent Little Extracts - Why You Need to Know About These Herbal Powerhouses

Aug 20, 2025

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24 min read

Tinctures 101: Nature’s Potent Little Extracts - Why You Need to Know About These Herbal Powerhouses

I am someone who uses diet, exercise, sleep, and stress management as primary tools for healing and prevention. My approach to health and wellness does not exclude pharmaceuticals and all that conventional medicine has to offer; I merely leave it as my last line of defence. In this regard, I have been lucky with my past two family doctors, as they too have embraced that philosophy. One of my favorite herbal tools, both simple and powerful, is the tincture.

David Richards
David Richards
Muscles Over Time: How to Stay Strong as You Age

Aug 13, 2025

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27 min read

Muscles Over Time: How to Stay Strong as You Age

When COVID hit, I, like all gym enthusiasts, needed to rethink my approach to exercise. Free weights and other equipment, which I suddenly no longer had access to and could neither afford nor spatially accommodate in my home, had dominated my workout regimen.

David Richards
David Richards
See the Difference: How Diet Impacts Your Eye Health

Aug 6, 2025

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22 min read

See the Difference: How Diet Impacts Your Eye Health

When people, including myself in the past, consider vitamin and mineral supplements, they typically do not associate them with vision care. Yet, studies have demonstrated the clinical benefits of nutrients in slowing, preventing, and improving various eye diseases and conditions, including macular degeneration, dry eye, night blindness, and cataracts (more on these below). I find it surprising that eye exams do not discuss the role of a healthy diet in vision care. At least none I’ve been to.

David Richards
David Richards
The Silent Link Between Hypertension and Memory Loss You Need to Know

Jul 30, 2025

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21 min read

The Silent Link Between Hypertension and Memory Loss You Need to Know

In January 2022, my partner had what our family doctor at the time thought to be a mini stroke. He put in a request for a CT scan, which, due to the sad state of Canadian health care, took place in the early fall of 2024. To the relief of my partner and me, there was no evidence of a mini stroke, and, to my own private relief, there was also no evidence of Alzheimer’s. Prompted by my partner’s seemingly escalating absentmindedness, this possibility had been a nagging concern.Yet the news was not entirely good. Longstanding hypertension had left its mark.

David Richards
David Richards
Sweet and Sour Science: The Truth About Glycation

Jul 23, 2025

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22 min read

Sweet and Sour Science: The Truth About Glycation

I have some good news: sugar is beneficial for you. As a matter of fact, it is essential in normal biological operations. I have some bad news for you; just ignore that first statement. It’s terrible stuff.

David Richards
David Richards
The Power Nap: A Secret Weapon for Sharper Thinking The Science Behind an Effective Nap

Jul 16, 2025

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24 min read

The Power Nap: A Secret Weapon for Sharper Thinking The Science Behind an Effective Nap

On a winter afternoon in New York City, on the ninth floor of an office building, a strategy consultant closes his eyes. Five, ten, fifteen minutes pass. He’s not fully asleep, but he’s no longer working either. Lightly dozing, he awakens, sits up, adjusts his glasses, and returns to his screen. He hasn’t wasted his time — he’s taken a strategic nap.

Valerie Larouche, MD
Valerie Larouche, MD
The Unspoken Risk of Foregoing the Shingles Vaccine

Jul 9, 2025

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22 min read

The Unspoken Risk of Foregoing the Shingles Vaccine

When people hear “shingles,” they usually think of a painful rash on the torso. But what many don’t realize is that shingles can also strike the face and eyes—with serious, and sometimes permanent, consequences. In fact, shingles can lead to blindness if it involves the eye, a condition known as herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO).

David Richards
David Richards
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