Dr. Sharlin Responds: GMOs Really Aren’t That Bad, Right?

Functional Medicine, General Health & Wellness, Thoughts & Ideas

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 fear mongered by an agenda-driven cohort to be concerned about the food we...

The Biology of Darkness

Functional Medicine

This essay will appear in the August/September issue of Ozarks Living Magazine, under my column Grow Your Health Summer Solstice, the beginning of summer and longest day of the year, brings me to a discussion of sleep.  I am reminded of the character Will Dormer...

Resilience — Working Through Life’s Adversities

Thoughts & Ideas

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 intentions.  But Spring.  We are connected to this re-birth that is now...

From the very soil in your garden comes the seeds for better health

Functional Medicine, General Health & Wellness, Thoughts & Ideas

(This article originally appeared in April/May 2016 issue of Ozarks Living Magazine volume7, number2.) “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...

When It Comes To Health, There Is No Place Like Home

Functional Medicine, General Health & Wellness, Thoughts & Ideas

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 you’ve probably heard those famous words from Glinda, the Good Witch at...