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The plot against Keto
| By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
I’m not susceptible to conspiracy theories, but this week’s confluence of anti-low-carb/Keto stories has me wondering. It’s a veritable torrent of orchestrated assaults! First there was the “Keto crotch” campaign. Initially, I was going to pass up…read more
Categories:Ketogenic Diet Nutrition Controversies
Leyla Weighs In: The VERY Necessary Nutrition Consult
CELEBRATING NATIONAL NUTRITION MONTH You will find the following quote clearly displayed on the wall in my office: The patient who doesn’t pay attention to diet is wasting the physician’s time — Chinese Proverb When we use the…read more
Categories:General Nutrition
Is vitamin D overrated?
| By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
When it comes to acceptance of novel scientific theories, J.B.S. Haldane once wrote that acknowledgment goes through four stages: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view. 3. This is…read more
Categories:Supplements
Ask Leyla: I’ve been diagnosed with diverticulosis—what foods should I avoid?
Q: I have recently been diagnosed with diverticulosis. I am researching which foods to avoid and which to eat, however, I’m getting conflicting information. Can you help shed some light on the subject for me? A: Diverticulosis…read more
Categories:Digestive Health
Why the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease is increasing
| By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
Last month, the investment world was rocked by the disclosure that Gerald Cotten, CEO of one of the world’s largest crypto-currency exchanges, had died suddenly at the age of 30. Lost with him were passwords and recovery…read more
Categories:IBD
Ask Leyla: What does my elevated LDL say about my heart risk?
Q: I am a 71-year young man in excellent condition. At my last physical, my HDL was 63, triglycerides 55, and LDL is 173. I’ve been told this is on the high side for LDL. How do…read more
Categories:Atherosclerosis Heart Disease Heart Health
How I Saved My Joints in Just 7 Days — And Gave My Skin a Boost Too!
| By Bill Sardi, Medical Researcher
This article contains information from one of our trusted sponsors. If you’re like me — and millions of other Americans — when you hit your 50s, your joints let you know it. Aches and stiffness, less mobility……read more
Categories:Joint Health Supplements
10 Ways to Conquer the Winter Blahs
| By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
By now many of you—particularly those of you who live in the Midwest and Northeast—may be suffering the effects of a snowy, frigid, protracted winter. It’s been unremittingly cold and grey here in New York City. The…read more
Categories:Depression/Anxiety Endocrinology Environmental Health Exercise Mental and Emotional Health Sleep Supplements
Leyla Weighs In: Risk factors and locus of control
On an almost daily basis, we are bombarded with frightening health reports. Claims such as, “50,000 people will die of colon cancer this year,” or “prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men,”…read more
Categories:General Medicine
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper”—REALLY?
| By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
A big new study in the British Medical Journal concludes that the hoary advice, oft-repeated by health professionals and the media, that “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” is not applicable to the majority of people….read more
Categories:General Nutrition Nutrition and Weight
Leyla Weighs In: Essential Detox: The importance of a healthy liver
Your liver is an organ essential to life. As the body’s filter, everything you swallow or absorb passes through it. The liver is the major organ of elimination and the manager of detoxification processes in the body….read more
Categories:Liver disease
Quiz: How well do you know your heart?
| By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
February is Heart Health month, and today is Valentine’s Day, so there’s no better time to check up on how well you know your heart! Answer the questions below to find out if you’re a heart health…read more
Categories:Heart Health
Real vs. fake detox
| By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
For every good phenomenon, there’s commercial exploitation and co-optation. So it’s been with the low-carb diet, the Paleo diet, and lately, the Keto diet—so much so that the unwholesome and inauthentic products that are promoted betray the original…read more
Categories:Nutrition Controversies
Aging better with Tru Niagen: A view from the discoverer of nicotinamide riboside as a powerful vitamin precursor of NAD
| By Charles Brenner, PhD
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Charles Brenner on the Intelligent Medicine radio show and podcast. He’s the Roy J. Carver Chair and Head of Biochemistry at the University of Iowa, as well as a…read more
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Gallbladder disease is a modern illness. An estimated 20 million Americans have gallbladder disease. The…
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