The World of Ideas
Dr. Kunz has posted extensive blogs in the past and written extensively on health, wellness, the healthcare system, and the mind-body connection. We will be rolling out these blogs and posts, old ones and new ones. Be prepared. Expect the unexpected. Serious, funny, deep, silly, controversial. Dr. K likes to think. And to have fun at the same time. Stay tuned.
What made this doctor? Part 1
Fear. I remember Mommy taking me to the Donaldson Air Force Base Clinic in Greenville, South Carolina. Must have been 1960 or so. Remember walking down those long wooden hallways of those clapboard military buildings, connected end-to-end. The walk was like an...
Where Have I Been?
Now, I realize that writing something and putting it out there in public contains at least a little bit of self-absorption, I mean, we all know about today's media culture, Facebook Posts, Tweets, Selfies, and blog sites. And aren't we all just dying to know the...
Do I Want You to Go On A Diet?
A diet is not something you “go on.” It’s how you live.
Little cumulative changes in schedule, priorities, relationships, money issues, goals, are all necessary for a successful change in “diet.”
Word Picture: What is “Oxidative Stress”
Think of the body as a power plant. You know… you put the fuel in, burn it, and produce energy. We are all “coal-fired” power plants burning “dirty coal”.
Who Is the “Well-est” Person I Know?
I met Craig twenty-five years ago. He was just retiring on disability from his job as a fire fighter. He was losing his ability to walk. Craig was in the early grip of ALS, "Lou Gehrig's Disease", a progressive neuromuscular paralysis that renders its victims...
What is Wellness?
Wellness. It's a word that entered into the public medical vocabulary some twenty-five or thirty years ago. It's one of a million other trendy words and phrases in our culture, like: "hippies", who decades ago got graduate degrees, became part of "the establishment",...
Author / Physician
David W. Kunz, M.D.
Family Medicine Physician & Medical Aesthetic Specialist