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In a previous article, I lamented Americans’ lack of health literacy and provided a quiz to seehow my readers fared. Now, I’d like to challenge you again. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, U.S. adults…read more
Categories:General Medicine
War has been declared against Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, carriers of the dreaded Zika virus. With some pretty solid evidence linking Zika to microcephaly, as well as Guillian-Barre syndrome, governments in affected countries are going all out as they…read more
Categories:Autism Environmental Health General Nutrition Infections
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860) To this we might add, in this era of…read more
Categories:Gluten Sensitivity
Which comes first: Self-reported penicillin allergy or chronic hives? New study has shown a strong association between the two conditions. People who have self-reported penicillin allergy may have a three times greater chance of suffering from chronic hives….read more
Categories:Allergy
Dr. Leo Galland is one of my most admired colleagues, to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude for providing me with the intellectual foundation for my practice of integrative medicine. This week, I had the opportunity…read more
“If you’re rational, you don’t get to believe whatever you want to believe.” ― Michael Huemer News stories on diet and health are so misleading these days. In an effort to gin up circulation, health writers are constantly…read more
Categories:Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Problems Alzheimer’s Cancer Heart Health Mental and Emotional Health Nutrition Controversies
When it comes to good health practices, we all have the best intentions, right? We try to avoid making excuses to skip exercise, think twice before reaching for that second helping of dinner—or second glass of wine, and try…read more
Categories:Environmental Health Exercise General Nutrition Sleep
Natalya Fazylova is a Doctor of Nursing Practice and an Associate Professor at the City University of New York. In her postgraduate education Dr. Fazylova became a certified Chinese Herbologist through the New York Institute of Herbal Medicine…read more
Categories:Women’s Health
I have been adhering to a “Whole30” version of the Paleo diet for three months now, and I’m enjoying the results. (Read more about my experience with the Whole30 here, or listen to this Intelligent Medicine podcast.) I feel clearer…read more
Categories:Paleo Diet
Q: I have adult female friends who are somewhat overweight who say if they don’t eat every three hours they feel nauseous and sick. The foods they eat are not from healthy sources. Is their nausea a withdrawal symptom…read more
Categories:Food Sensitivity Hypoglycemia
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…
I’m a veteran of the Diet Wars. Back in the 80s, when the ultra-low-carb Atkins…
Q: I’ve read that twenty minutes of sun exposure will give us 10,000 to 20,000 IV…
I couldn’t resist. Rather than leave these candidates for “Breakthrough treatments that we don’t really need” on…
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