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Hello and welcome to all my readers – I hope you all had a safe and peaceful Memorial Day weekend. In our last installment, I shared with you my thoughts on supplements that should be avoided before surgery…read more
Categories:Supplements Surgery
Q: I am a type 2 diabetic who takes 4,000 mg of vitamin C each day. I recently heard that “C” can raise your blood sugar. Is this true? A: Vitamin C is an important antioxidant for maintaining optimal health…read more
Categories:Diabetes General Nutrition Supplements
Dear Doctor Hoffman: I am about to undergo surgery. Are there any nutritional supplements I can take to promote recovery? Are there any that I should avoid? I frequently get this question from my patients and from listeners…read more
Categories:General Medicine Supplements Surgery
Q: I’m a healthy 61 year old female with an ongoing vitamin D deficiency. My doctor has given me 25,000 IU vitamin D per week over a 10-week period a few times over the last 18 months and my…read more
Categories:Supplements
This article originally appeared on Dr. Teitelbaum’s website, Vitality101. This is the fourth installment of my “Ten-Point Tune-Up” series, a ten-step method to energize every system and organ in your body. And it’s the sexiest installment of all!…read more
Last week, I wrote that exercise alone does not promote weight loss. The same study cited in that article also examines the question of carb loading for exercise. The reason for carb loading is that the body only…read more
Categories:Exercise General Nutrition
This article originally appeared on Dr. Galland’s website, PillAdvised. A small imaging study suggests prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), the toxic air pollution caused in part by vehicle emissions, coal burning and smoking, may be bad…read more
Categories:ADD/ADHD Environmental Health Pediatric Health
Have you ever wondered whether all the new information that you read and hear about on Intelligent Medicine is making any impact whatsoever on society? In terms of actual change, are we really making any kind of…read more
Categories:ADD/ADHD Environmental Health IBS Neurological Health Nutrition and Weight Nutrition Controversies
This article originally appeared on Dr. Perlmutter’s website. New and exciting research is revealing a strong connection between our mood and the various bacteria that live within our intestines. This is certainly a sobering notion. Think of it:…read more
Remember when we were kids and they had those “paint-by-numbers” kits for sale at the Five & Dime store? OK, perhaps that dates me! The pitch was “You, too, can be a Great Master! Just follow the easy…read more
Categories:Atherosclerosis General Medicine Heart Disease Heart Health
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…
Lately there’s been a lot of buzz about protein. Protein bars are all the rage.…
Q: One of the weight loss systems advertised on radio claims that you have to balance…
Q&A with Leyla, Part 2: A Cure for Tinnitus?
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