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Q: I want to ask you what basic supplements and their dosages (and foods) should a woman take who is considering starting a family. It’s not happening just yet but to get my body ready. I understand it…read more
Categories:Supplements Women’s Health
The traditional wisdom, endlessly purveyed by young, slender dieticians on TV, is that you should eat a hearty breakfast. The mantra is that “breakfast is the most important meal” and that it sets the tone for optimal metabolism…read more
It’s that time of year when we traditionally do a retrospective on those important health stories that defined the year. 1) Health Reform: Call it what you will (ACA versus Obamacare), just as I predicted in a…read more
Categories:Gluten Sensitivity Paleo Diet Supplements
Earlier this year, many of you enjoyed an Intelligent Medicine blog that I wrote: “Supplements that I take.” So, by popular demand, here’s a companion piece on my exercise program. Every year, I try to enter one or…read more
Categories:Exercise
Bread lovers, beware! Gluten-free diets may not just be a trendy choice but something everyone should follow. New research reveals that proteins in wheat may be detrimental to all humans. “Gluten-free” seems to be appearing just about everywhere…read more
Categories:General Nutrition Gluten Sensitivity
Maybe not this weekend, maybe not even Christmas, but chances are that someday soon you will be traveling. And whether you’re visiting your parents after your first semester at college or you’re flying south for some fun in the sun,…read more
Categories:Supplements
52 million Americans have low bone mass (twice as many women as men, and most of them over 50) leaving them with thin, weak bones that are much easier to break than they should be. And its a…read more
Categories:Fibromyalgia Osteoporosis
Optimizing Lung Health Your lungs flank your heart like two guardians, delivering life-giving oxygen to your cells and expelling carbon dioxide, the waste product of energy production. The journey of inhaled air starts in the nose or mouth….read more
Categories:Asthma COPD Lung Health
Last week, we all awoke to a sea-change in the way mainstream medicine approaches the prescribing of cholesterol drugs. It caught many of the “worried well” by surprise. Even most doctors were blind-sided. Prescriptions for “statin” drugs–such as…read more
Categories:Aging Heart Health
Anxiety is a pervasive problem. Forty million people in the U.S. will experience an impairment because of an anxiety condition this year. Forty-three percent of North Americans take mood-altering prescriptions regularly. Paxil and Zoloft (two of the more…read more
Categories:Depression/Anxiety Supplements
Though we think of declining estrogen as the hallmark of menopause, it's actually common for…
Up to 12 percent of Americans have ulcers at some point in life. Peptic ulcers…
Gallbladder disease is a modern illness. An estimated 20 million Americans have gallbladder disease. The…
There’s more to GI health than whether or not to take an acid-blocker. All too…
In the latest attempt to remove “stigma” from medical terminology, liver specialists have come up…
Q: My husband’s high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) is 1.62 and his homocysteine is 13.1. If…
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