A grain of salt: In defense of your doctor
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist I can always tell that I’ll like a patient when they tell me that they’ve spent years with the same doctor. It means they have been taking care of...
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A grain of salt: A happy hormone primer for long winters
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist We ought to be equal opportunity hormone appreciators. We like them all, primarily because they are responsible for some key body functions — things like desire and rewards, feeling...
A grain of salt: Put your dogma on a leash
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist “Are you paleo?” a client asks me as I hand over a cookbook filled mostly with recipes for bacon kale quiche variants. “Nope,” I respond as I reach for...
In Fine Fettle: Smoke — it’s not just ruining the view
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist SMOKE. You can’t avoid it right now. It’s in your neighborhood, your car, your office, your eyes, lungs, everywhere. Even your clothes smell like stale campfire. By now,...
In Fine Fettle: Saying yes to saying no
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist All winter long, I fantasize about the activities of the summer. This is going to be the summer, I think, the summer I get wicked ripped, learn how...
In Fine Fettle: Surviving summer without rehab
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist I’m not sure if it is the lake town atmosphere, our celebration of sunshine, or the general social acceptability of alcoholism, but it generally feels as though most...
In Fine Fettle: Community-facilitated health
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist The Brown Dog and I were out for our morning run complete with her bow of pink toiletry totes. She’s a lady, so we use sophisticated terminology instead...
In Fine Fettle: Making room for kindness and naps
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist I was running on a trail this weekend alongside a stranger who said his name was Mike and that he’d slid down that slippery slope of not exercising...
In Fine Fettle: Is it better to eat or have the cake?
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist I never understood the saying, “You cannot have your cake and eat it.” If your cake is big enough, you can. And if you eat it slowly enough,...
In Fine Fettle: Detoxification — science or witchcraft?
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Health Columnist Science, actually. Detoxification is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxins from a living organism, and for the purposes of today, we’ll assume we’re talking about the human...
