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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 – if…read more
Categories:Supplements Surgery
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 to Intelligent…read more
Categories:General Medicine Supplements Surgery
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! Now you…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 has a…read more
Categories:Exercise General Nutrition
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 difference? Or are…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: the bacteria…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 color-coded directions.”…read more
Categories:Atherosclerosis General Medicine Heart Disease Heart Health
In the latest issue of Medscape, Dr. John Mandrola writes that his approach to treating patients with atrial fibrillation has changed “completely and fundamentally” (Atrial Fibrillation Care: Put the Catheter (and Rx Pad) Down). He describes this as a “before…read more
Categories:Heart Disease Heart Health
This week, supplement consumers were bombarded with headlines that attacked the very bedrock of their belief in the efficacy of vitamins—undermining their conviction that taking them confers disease protection and longevity. (As if this week’s assault on Dr. Oz as…read more
Categories:Cancer Supplements
The routine physical, an annual ritual, has recently come under fire—deservedly so. The screening chest X-ray, except in smokers or those with respiratory complaints—useless. The ECG—mostly a waste of time, unless there are specific heart-related complaints. Standard blood tests like…read more
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…
The recent attempt on candidate Trump’s life merely highlights a long-standing problem: America is in…
Q: Is drinking liquids with meals bad for digestion? I routinely have a pint of…
“Dr. Hoffman, do you still eat peanuts?” That was a listener question recently on my…
The Profit Motive Behind American Dialysis with Tom Mueller, Part 2
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