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Top ten Intelligent Medicine stories of 2013
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 2009 blog…read more
Categories:Gluten Sensitivity Paleo Diet Supplements
My exercise regimen, or “Exercise that I do”
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 two Olympic…read more
Categories:Exercise
Pills for your upcoming trip
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, there is…read more
Categories:Supplements
Books Dr. Hoffman Recommends
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The digital revolution: Health benefit or bane?
This week, a series of health stories touch on the health impacts of the Internet and ubiquitous mobile devices. First of all, let me go on record as saying that the advent of instantaneous online health information has revolutionized my…read more
Categories:Cancer Depression/Anxiety
Advice to Tom Hanks
Recently, Tom Hanks grabbed the headlines, not just for his portrayal of Captain Phillips in his latest hit movie, but for his revelation that he is now suffering from type 2 diabetes. It happened during an interview with David Letterman….read more
Categories:Diabetes Supplements
GMOs: A primer
In the early 1800s, faced with automation and industrialization in the English textile industry, a group of traditional weavers and lacemakers banded together to protest. They were called “Luddites.” The Luddites demonstrated at new mass-production factories, and even sometimes rampaged,…read more
Categories:Nutrition and Weight
Hypoglycemia
Americans love to “carbo-load.” We are a society in love with carbohydrates—and it shows in our poor health standing versus some of the other industrialized nations of the world. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, diabetes contributed…read more
Categories:Hypoglycemia
New obesity statistics
In addition to levying ever more extortionate taxes on the American populace, the U.S. Government is in the business of issuing statistics. Now comes the ultimate insult hurled at Americans by unseen, all-knowing bureaucrats. The majority of us, the health…read more
Categories:Obesity
Obesity and disease risk
America is overweight. Millions of Americans are fighting the battle of the bulge. The economic cost of obesity related illness was estimated at more than $39 billion back in 1986. Adding insult to injury, a study in the Journal of…read more
Categories:Obesity
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Though we think of declining estrogen as the hallmark of menopause, it's actually common for…
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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…
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Lately there’s been a lot of buzz about protein. Protein bars are all the rage.…
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Q: One of the weight loss systems advertised on radio claims that you have to balance…
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In the latest attempt to remove “stigma” from medical terminology, liver specialists have come up…
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