Ask Dr. Paul

When getting our "health house" in order, we can take small steps. But these can be very important steps to help ensure our own health and even the health of our loved ones, friends and neighbors. One of these steps is listing all of the medicines we take for our health. In this episode, I discuss how you can create a list of prescription and over-the-counter medicines as well as supplements and v...

In this episode, we use this important quote from Louis Pasteur, the famous French microbiologist to help guide us in learning how to use the information we have about our own health to stay healthy and potentially prevent future illness. 

In this episode, we begin to consider what action steps we can take to get our "health" house in order. We will revisit this topic of quantitative health often in our journey together so that we can help you help yourself. 

In this episode, we begin the journey of understanding a systematic approach to organizing our health.  Because finding our best health is a journey, consider this a first small step. 

In this episode, we begin the discussion around objective measurement and quantification of stress using available laboratory tests. We will revisit this topic often to provide deeper dives into how we quantify stress that we humans experience.

In this episode, we begin to discuss the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test and prostate cancer. This is a continuing area of research so this will be a topic we revisit often. 

In this episode, we begin to discuss the ground breaking work of Dr. Denham Harman and how the free radical theory emerged to become key to our understanding of the aging process.

In this episode, we discuss the relationship between obesity, stress and cancer.

In this episode, we present the important area of oxidative stress and begin the discussion of how it impacts our health.

In this episode, we discuss how oxidative stress and eicosanoids relate to cancer development in our bodies

 In this episode, we define and discuss how stress and oxidative stress affects our bodies. 

In this episode, we discuss those chemicals in our bodies we call electrolytes.  Learn how they play a key role in our organ and other bodily functions. 

In this episode, we begin to consider what stress is and how it can affect us and our bodies.

In this episode, we discuss approaches to managing our stress so that we can minimize the health effects of stress.

We introduce here ideas related to measuring stress in our own lives that allow us to better know when we are stressed and when we should intervene to reduce stress.

In this episode, we discuss how we can recognize that we are in a state of stress or increased stress so we can then learn ways to manage ourselves during stressful times. 

Learn about flesh-eating bacteria, how we get exposed to them and what we can do to treat and prevent illness due to flesh-eating bacteria.

In this episode, we discuss what happens when we are in a hot environment such as a summer heat wave. Learn about the signs and symptoms of heat related illness, especially the most serious illness called Heat Stroke.

Quantitative Health with your host Dr. Paul Kilgore, M.D. brings you information that you can take away and use to develop your personal health strategy. We all need a health strategy that is tailored to our lifestyle and goals. This episode is the start for your journey for a lifetime of health.