OFFICE PHONE HOURSThe 6 Health Maintenance Processes
Connective Tissue Balance
Connective tissues connect the body together. Healthy connective tissue reflects in smooth skin, strong muscles, strong bone matrix, and healthy amounts of cartilage in joints. It is an unappreciated property of youth and, usually, is not appreciated fully until it is gone. Healthy connective tissue...
Read more Oxidative Stress
Oxidative Stress can be likened to ‘biological rusting’. Oxidative stress is part of life, all life. It is the process that causes us to age. It involves one molecule taking an electron (oxidation) from another molecule. It happens literally billions of times every second in your body. When a mo...
Read more Calcium Metabolism
Calcium balance is absolutely crucial for your health and wellness. Calcium is the only mineral that has its very own glandular system devoted to maintaining its balance: the parathyroid glands. Why is the balance of calcium so important? We mostly think of calcium in terms of bone loss as we age an...
Read more Anaerobic Stress
The body prefers to make energy using oxygen. This is called Aerobic Metabolism. It is the most efficient method of creating energy from foods. You get a much higher return (you make MORE high energy phosphate bonds, ATP) when things are done aerobically. However, the body has the capacity to make ...
Read more Acid Stress
The body works very, very hard to control the amount of acid. Acid is measured and discussed in terms of pH. The ideal pH of the body has been scientifically determined to be 7.4. The body works very hard to maintain itself as close to that level as possible. All of clinical chemistry is based on th...
Read more Inflammation
Inflammation is above all a health maintenance process. Its study occupies the whole area of medicine known as immunology. It cannot be measured directly by a single specific laboratory test, but is viewed through many different parameters, much like looking at the US economy through various economi...
Read more Homeostatic Processes
The process of maintaining physiological balance in the body was termed ‘Homeostasis’ by the esteemed Harvard physiologist, Walter Cannon, almost 100 years ago. We all witness this every day in ourselves, our friends, and family. We get sick, sustain an injury, suffer an emotional trauma and yet...
Read moreDr. David Luce | MD
W. David Luce, M.D., P.C. is a Board Certified Internist in private practice in Colorado. He is recognized as a medical innovator, educator, public health advocate, and a leader in the integration of evidence-based Western medicine with complimentary therapies. Educated at Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale, Dr. Luce has over 20 years experience designing and implementing innovative treatment programs that restore health and wellness to his patients. He is a passionate proponent for the use of Western science, not only to prevent disease, but also ...
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