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Alternative perspectives on breast cancer
Lifestyle matters! Around one in nine women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer during her lifetime. A recent study found that roughly 30 percent of breast cancers could be prevented with simple lifestyle modifications: Avoiding obesity, alcohol intake, smoking…read more
Will COVID kill integrative medicine?
In the early twentieth century, the Flexner Report sought to assert the preeminence of the “biomedical model” over traditional folk medicines that were still widely embraced by Americans. Medical research was advancing in the wake of Louis…read more
Categories:COVID-19
Ask Leyla: What’s the difference in how fructose and sucrose impact physiology?
Q: Glucose and fructose are both called sugar and combine to form sucrose, common table sugar, but how similar are they? How do these affect human physiology? A: While fructose and sucrose (table sugar) may taste the…read more
Categories:General Nutrition
How to support joint health with botanicals and nutrients such as willow bark, ginger, boswellia, methylsulfonyl methane (MSM) and Hyaluronic acid (HA)
I’ve been availing myself of some of Protocol for Life Balance’s joint and muscle support supplements now that the cooler weather is enabling longer run and bike workouts. They’re really helping me with recovery as my mileage…read more
Categories:Joint Health Muscle and Bone Health Sponsored Supplements
Pregnenolone for brain and pain
I’ve long been a fan of DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), available as an over-the-counter supplement. It’s a weak androgen, like testosterone, but more unisex; unlike testosterone, of which men have around twenty times as much as women, DHEA is…read more
Categories:Endocrinology Supplements
We’ve been missing the boat on weight loss
Last week, top obesity researchers challenged the calories-in/calories-out hypothesis that has dominated our approach to weight loss for decades. Study Finds heralded: “Overeating doesn’t cause obesity” And Science Daily proclaimed: “Scientists claim that overeating is not the primary cause of obesity”…read more
Ask Leyla: How important is DHEA to health?
Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a vital hormone secreted by the adrenal glands which sit right above the kidneys. Smaller amounts are produced by the gonads and brain. DHEA is the substrate from which other sex hormones are made,…read more
Categories:Endocrinology
September Snippets
Suffering from office or classroom brain-fog? You’ve heard of “sick building syndrome”. It’s a recognized threat to health, affecting as many as 30% of indoor environments. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “Building occupants complain of symptoms such as…read more
Categories:COVID-19 Environmental Health General Nutrition
Should doctors be role models for their patients?
Many years ago, when I was just a medical student, a relative of mine came down with an intractable skin problem. She had been to numerous dermatologists, had tried many creams and potions, and had undertaken detox…read more
Categories:General Medicine
Ask Leyla: Is it safe to cook with aluminum?
Q: My family has been incorporating wild Alaskan salmon into our diets regularly. We cook them either in the oven or on the grill in aluminum foil. Is it healthy and safe to cook in aluminum foil? A:…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…
Lately, I’ve been sharing with Intelligent Medicine listeners that I’ve been augmenting my diet with…
Q: I am a 77-year-old woman. On recent bone density test, lumbar spine results range…
The 1973 sci-fi movie Soylent Green depicts a dystopian future in which over-population and environmental…
Q&A with Leyla, Part 1: Chromium & Hemoglobin A1c
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