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Vitamin C and CORONAVIRUS – China is Using it!
Vitamin C is an essential vitamin, meaning your body can’t produce it. It’s an antioxidant and confers the following benefits (among many others): 1. Helps maintain your skin, bones, and connective tissue 2. Promotes wound healing 3. Helps with high blood pressure 4....Read More
Can Stress Cause White Hair?
Can Stress Cause White Hair? My mother told us the story about my grandfather in Australia whose hair turned totally white in a matter of months after being hospitalized for Typhoid fever, an enteric bacterial infection due to a type of Salmonella. Typhoid fever...Read More
The Secret About Indole-3-Carbinole
In a study published May 16 th 2019 in the journal Science, reported by the New York Times on Tuesday May 21, 2019, a dietary supplement called Indole 3 carbinol, an extract from cruciferous vegetables, has been shown to counter a certain type of cancer. The cancer...Read More
The Truth About B Vitamins And Fracture Risk
Last week two frantic patients notified me by email that they read in the Times Science Section on May 28, 2019 that large doses of B vitamins in older women are associated with higher risk of hip fractures. Both of these women suffered from osteoporosis and were...Read More
The Case of the Nutritional Depression
Recently a patient of mine came to me and she was furious! She said ” my daughter has just been told that she has a ‘chemical depression’ by a doctor who didn’t even test her brain chemicals.” I said I agreed with her. The doctor was making a supposition that...Read More
Remember to Eat Mushrooms!
I make spaghetti sauce loaded with mushrooms and I make mushrooms roasted with garlic, butter, and thyme served over wild rice, yumm!But here’s something even better than the taste. A study in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and reported in the Times on March 20,...Read More
Biomarkers and Hope for Alzheimer’s Disease
I just had an interesting conversation with a patient of mine. Her mother is also my patient and I am treating her mother with a Functional Medicine approach to Alzheimer’s disease.The daughter just came in to discuss a talk she just went to by a doctor for the...Read More
New review demonstrates the benefits of collagen peptides for dermatological applications February 22, 2019 – 12:32
Collagen supplementation has increased exponentially in the past few years and sources can be from porcine, bovine, or marine. Collagen from the diet is digested and broken down into small pieces called amino acids or dipeptides and distributed to tissues. Some...Read More
New study demonstrates the benefit of tocotrienol supplementation in ovarian cancer February 6, 2019 – 11:07
Ovarian cancer is the 5th most common cancer in women and accounts for more deaths than any other female cancer. Although there has been progress in cancer management, recurrent ovarian cancer remains a challenge.According to a new phase II clinical trial published...Read More
