Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World

Mental and emotional stress can cause physical symptoms that might make you think you have a mental health issue when all you have is a dysregulation of your nervous system. Unfortunately, friends and family members that have never been though a traumatic event may lack the empathy and understanding of human metabolism to help you. […]

Your Hormones and Your Health

What are hormones? Hormones serve as signaling agents, orchestrating the functions of various organs and tissues...

Medication Nation: Is Taking Multiple Medications Extending or Ending Your Life?

In the US, the richest country in the world, 60% of adults have at least one chronic disease like heart disease, diabetes, obesity or dementia. Today, the only solution conventional medicine has to offer is more drugs. Seventy percent of Americans are taking one or more pharmaceuticals. With prophetic clarity, we all can see what’s […]

Is Testosterone Replacement Causing Heart Attacks?

The days of handing out the same testosterone dose with an estrogen blocker for everyone are over. Today, we’re developing new multifactorial programs using nutrition and hormone replacement. The goal is to get away from treating testosterone in isolation. Despite the ads you’ve been undoubtedly seeing everywhere, there is more to longevity than testosterone alone. […]

The Good Psychopath

All my articles are somewhat autobiographical; this one is even more so. My hope is that it helps you understand someone in your life, or at least appreciate the trauma certain professionals are exposed to in their line of work. Our fascination with psychopaths goes back to the first documented serial killer, H. H. Holmes, […]

How to Keep Your Ass Off a Bed Pan

Let me tell you what scares the shit out of me. Ready for this? It’s watching what happens to people in nursing homes. In the 1980s, part of my job was to transport the elderly to nursing homes. My partner and I would arrive at their home with a stretcher, navigate around the furniture and […]

Transgender Hormones: Questions No One Is Asking

If you follow my YouTube channel, you know education and saving lives is what Scala Precision Heath is about. Bear with me as I recount these WTF moments in my life. You’ll connect the dots in a minute. When my extremely fit 35-year-old endurance athlete and training partner had a heart attack . . . […]

Postpartum Depression & Executive Women

I’ve talked many women dealing with depression off the ledge. Going into a high-level intervention I never know what to expect. I must meet each woman where she is at that time. It’s like a white-water raft ride through her neurological architecture, and to me it’s as physically draining as any triathlon. Navigating depression with […]

Dorian Yates vs. DVT

A few months ago, I answered my phone and heard, “Russ, this is Dorian Yates, not sure if you know who I am.” Yes, six-time Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates. “Hello, Dorian, yes, I know who you are. How’s it going?” “I just saw your video on what’s killing bodybuilders on YouTube. I also saw […]

Cancer: The Immortal Serial Killer

Imagine your phone rings and it’s your doctor’s office. The nurse on the other end says your test results have come back positive, you have cancer! There’s a long silence, then the nurse says, “We have an opening in three weeks for you to meet with the doctor. Can I schedule you?” You say yes, […]