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Science is Proving Mommy Brain is Real

“Mommy brain” is for real – so is “daddy brain.” A must-read article in Scientific Mind, October 2015, explores the reality that we have always written about, birthing a baby and parenting a child changes…

Movement Can Improve Your Health

What Can Plants Teach Us About Being Healthy? The Importance of Movement. On a recent lecture trip to Singapore, my love of the neuroscience of nature was boosted while visiting what the locals call “the…

Cool Gear for Dads

Many times I hear from my patients about the roles they each play at home and ways they are stuck, feeling inefficient and exhausted. With labor and nursing for mom, and overall household for Dad,…

Celebrating 50 Years of Marriage

As a tribute to Dr. Bill and Martha’s 50th wedding anniversary, the Sears kids share what they admire most about their parents' marriage and relationship. Jim My parents are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary, and I've…

My Mother the Nurse

Martha Sears Discusses Nursing & Motherhood by Lauren Sears As a kid, I would usually forget that my mom was a nurse. I never saw her in scrubs, or loop a stethoscope around her neck. In fact, I…

The Difference Between Snacks and Treats

Teaching Kids How to Choose Snacks instead of Treats A few afternoons ago, our 9 year-old was pretty hungry after getting home from school. I suggested she go to kitchen to get a snack as…

Childhood Inflammation Solutions

6 Steps to a Good Gut Start While we tend to think that inflammation affects only older people, it really is an illness of all organs at all ages. In fact, new insights reveal that…

How to Eat for a Healthy Pregnancy

Graze, Sip and Dip for a Healthy Pregnancy What's going on in there? Every mother wonders how her habits affect how her baby is growing. Once upon a time it was thought that a baby…

ASTHMA: IT’S NOT ALL JUST ABOUT THE INHALERS

Are inhalers the best solution? One of the aspects of asthma and allergy treatment we discuss in The Allergy Book is the important of lifestyle changes. Inhalers certainly help reduce asthma symptoms when needed, but…

Cutting Edge Treatment for Severe Asthma

It's allergy season again, and those who suffer from severe allergic asthma now have a new option for treatment for severe asthma. Omalizumab is a cutting-edge therapy that offers hope for asthma sufferers who don't…

Where in the Body Do Most Allergies Begin?

The answer might surprise you. It's allergy season again. Noses are dripping, eyes are watering, skin is itching, and lungs are wheezing all across America. And many people have the misconception that allergies are primarily…

Try This if you are an Allergy Sufferer

THERE'S ONE MAJOR THING EVERY ALLERGY SUFFERER SHOULD TRY FIRST Introducing The Allergy Book: Solving Your Family's Nasal Allergies, Asthma, Food Sensitivities, and Related Health and Behavioral Problems. It comes out April 7 and is…