Asthma’s a Big Problem! Recent studies suggest that roughly 9% of children have asthma, corresponding to almost 6.8 million children in the USA. Indeed, asthma attacks are the leading cause of pediatric emergency room visits. Any clinician who has experience in treating asthmatics will be awar... [More]

Heavy on the minds of many is the devastating effect of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill on both our health and safety and the health and safety of the environment. Thankfully the spill has been stopped, but not after hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil have polluted the waters, damaged th... [More]

Part 4 - We take a deeper look into how toxins affect the immune system this week. Dr. Crinnion says immunotoxicity is usually the first problem that shows up in a person’s history, typically manifesting itself as allergies or asthma. Do you know of anyone, especially adults, that are sud... [More]

Part 3 - In this third installment of my conversation with Dr. Walter Crinnion, we consider the function of the mitochondria, those "cellular power plants" that provide most of our cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). What happens to this energy producer when toxins enter the sce... [More]

Part 2 - This is the second installment of my conversation with Dr. Walter Crinnion on toxicity and the environment. He is a wellspring of information on this subject, and he answers the question about the need for testing in this week's podcast. After all, if we all have toxins present in our ... [More]

Part 1 - With so much in the news today about toxicity and the environment, it's hard to ignore the chatter and how it affects our health. Time to ask someone in the know. I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Walter J. Crinnion, an environmental health specialist, on the importance of und... [More]

Forbes named the country's most toxic cities this week. I live in a suburb of Atlanta—the city that tops the list! Living in a city with this distinction got me thinking about what each of us can do to tackle these everyday toxicities, especially when moving to a cleaner city isn’t ... [More]