Thoughts & Ideas

The boardroom of healthcare leadership needs to be filled with innovative risk takers and those with solutions for our system that reach beyond the status quo.  In October 2015 I left my place of [...]

This essay will appear in the October/November issue of Ozarks Living Magazine, under my column Grow Your Health In Somerset County, New Jersey, a 600-year-old tree sits in a church cemetery, [...]

Facebook comment: There is no such thing as commercially available genetically modified wheat.  This is just “fear-mongering.” Dr. Sharlin responds: To suggest, by extension, that we are being [...]

CADASIL (“Cerebral Autosomal-Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy”) is the most common form of hereditary stroke disorder, and is thought to be [...]

Remarkable things happen in the Spring… New Year’s Day is the day of resolutions, but the weight of winter is still upon us in the cold weather and for some that tends to stifle the best of [...]

“Growing your own food is like printing your own money” says Ron Finley, the Guerilla Gardner of South Los Angeles in TED 2013. I am reminded of these words when a friend echoes them in [...]

Dorothy: Oh, will you help me? Can you help me? Glinda: You don’t need to be helped any longer. You’ve always had the power to go back to Kansas. Dorothy: I have? If you are an adult [...]

I am about to commit functional medicine blasphemy.  I am about to tell you something, well, not very nice.  Are you ready?  Here it is: You are not an MTHFR.  If you are a frequent flyer of the [...]

One of the first ideas I was introduced to in my education as a functional medicine doctor was the illness-wellness continuum. To me the idea that each of us lives on a scale between perfect [...]