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Consider gluten sensitivity in children with psychosis
Hardly a day goes by without someone telling me a story about a miraculous improvement in some form of medical condition when a person decided to eliminate gluten from his or her diet. No doubt, most would find…read more
How hyperbaric oxygen therapy can transform healthcare
This article contains sponsored content. From Dr. Hoffman: I’m excited to share with you something that I’m convinced is a true medical breakthrough, a therapy that has the potential to revolutionize care for a variety of extremely challenging…read more
Categories:Autoimmune Diseases General Medicine Multiple Sclerosis Muscle and Bone Health Natural Health Care Neurological Health Stroke and TIAs
Leyla Weighs In: High arachidonic acid? Blame corn
Arachidonic acid is a pro-inflammatory fatty acid responsible for the production of series 2 prostaglandins, a hallmark of inflammation associated with conditions such as asthma and arthritis, to name a couple. However, arachidonic acid is not altogether a…read more
Categories:Arthritis Asthma General Nutrition Inflammation
Inflammation linked with type 2 diabetes: Yale
How does insulin inhibit glucose production? A Yale-led research team has identified the molecular mechanism by which insulin normally inhibits production of glucose by the liver and why this process stops working in patients with type 2 diabetes,…read more
Categories:Diabetes Inflammation
What’s your Health IQ? Round two!
In a previous article, I lamented Americans’ lack of health literacy and provided a quiz to seehow my readers fared. Now, I’d like to challenge you again. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, U.S. adults…read more
Categories:General Medicine
Is spraying for Zika a health risk?
War has been declared against Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, carriers of the dreaded Zika virus. With some pretty solid evidence linking Zika to microcephaly, as well as Guillian-Barre syndrome, governments in affected countries are going all out as they…read more
Categories:Autism Environmental Health General Nutrition Infections
Is gluten intolerance bullsh*t?
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860) To this we might add, in this era of…read more
Categories:Gluten Sensitivity
Self-reported Penicillin allergy or chronic hives?
Which comes first: Self-reported penicillin allergy or chronic hives? New study has shown a strong association between the two conditions. People who have self-reported penicillin allergy may have a three times greater chance of suffering from chronic hives….read more
Categories:Allergy
Book Review: The Allergy Solution by Leo Galland, M.D. and Jonathan Galland, J.D.
Dr. Leo Galland is one of my most admired colleagues, to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude for providing me with the intellectual foundation for my practice of integrative medicine. This week, I had the opportunity…read more
Click bait health reporting: I’m calling BS on these 5 health stories
“If you’re rational, you don’t get to believe whatever you want to believe.” ― Michael Huemer News stories on diet and health are so misleading these days. In an effort to gin up circulation, health writers are constantly…read more
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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…
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Gallbladder disease is a modern illness. An estimated 20 million Americans have gallbladder disease. The…
Dead Butt Syndrome: I love this term! Formally speaking, in medical parlance, it’s dubbed “gluteal…
Q: I read various health newsletters, books, and websites on nutritional advice, and I’d like…
"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into…
Q&A with Leyla, Part 1: Cancer Screening
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