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Most of our patients are familiar with the basic dietary recommendations and supplement protocols for diabetes mellitus. However, fine-tuning dosages and an explanation of how these supplements work can promote nutritional compliance. Good glycemic control generally requires elimination…read more
Categories:Diabetes
Is there a thief hiding in your medicine cabinet? If you are currently taking a prescription medication, the answer to that question would be “yes.” Prescription medications deplete the body of essential nutrients. The ways that drugs negatively…read more
Categories:General Nutrition
Some people have equated the pain of passing a kidney stone to that of childbirth. That is an intimidating thought, but kidney stones can be prevented. The Hoffman Center stresses the importance of dietary modification, which should not…read more
Categories:General Nutrition Nutrition and Weight Urinary Health
Antimicrobial resistance is an issue well known to the medical community at large. It is, however, of paramount importance within the realm of holistic medicine; in addition to having the potential to further aggravate resistance to various antibiotics,…read more
Categories:Colds and Respiratory Infections Flu Infections
Contrary to popular belief, food allergies are more than obvious immediate reactions that only afflict a small part of the population. According to allergy researcher and pioneer of clinical ecology Theron Randolph, M.D., food allergy is the most…read more
Categories:Allergy General Nutrition
Widespread interest in the possibility that selected foods might promote health has resulted in the coining of the generic term “functional food.” The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences defines a “functional food” as…read more
Categories:General Nutrition Heart Disease Obesity Supplements
Mainstream medicine is making serious blunders in its approach to diabetes, and conventional physicians and dieticians can’t get straight the proper diet to treat diabetes. They adhere slavishly to the diabetic “exchange diet” developed decades ago, which emphasizes…read more
Categories:Diabetes
Several different viruses, the most common of which belong to the category rhinovirus, cause the common cold. Herbal, pharmaceutical and homeopathic remedies have consistently failed to treat symptoms or to significantly shorten their duration. In fact, certain studies…read more
Categories:Colds and Respiratory Infections Immunity Supplements
Early in March, devotees of nutritional medicine were stunned by wide circulation in the media of a press release suggesting that modest supplementary doses of vitamin C were implicated in rapid acceleration of atherosclerosis based on a study…read more
Categories:Atherosclerosis General Nutrition Heart Health Supplements
Gallbladder disease is a modern illness. An estimated 20 million Americans have gallbladder disease. The sole function of the gallbladder is to store bile, which is produced in the liver and aids in the digestion of fats in…read more
Categories:Aging Gall bladder disease Nutrition and Weight Surgery
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…
Last week I talked about the benefits of regenerative agriculture with respect to healthy soil. According…
We are all familiar with the sensation: You get that empty feeling in your stomach,…
Industrial agricultural practices like tilling, monocropping and heavy use of chemical and fossil fuel-produced fertilizers…
The Estrobolome’s Role in Hormone Balance, Part 1