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Exploring Natural Antibiotics: Protecting yourself against infection can be done naturally. But where do you begin? First and foremost, if you suspect you have an upper airway infection (you’re coughing, expelling mucus, are feverish, etc.), now is not the time to experiment: You absolutely [...]
Antibiotic resistance is a real disease and it’s one of our own making. Why there should be flesh-eating bacteria that cannot be controlled with antibiotics, in an era where robots perform surgery, is hard to understand. Yet by recognizing what many–even many doctors–still believe [...]
While surgery is no vacation, you should prepare for it like one. You should do some pre-planning and shopping (for food and supplements, not snorkels) and ensure you’ve packed your body full of all the most healing nutrients. This is not to make light of what can be a [...]
Everyone deserves the answers to five questions about their prescriptions, especially as they age. And if physicians and families can ask and honor the answers, care will be kinder, more respectful, more fulfilling, more transparent–and what people really want. Understanding the goals of [...]
When you are cruising the grocery store aisles, you probably flip over a few items to scrutinize their nutrition labels. But do you understand what you’re looking at? The government is working on updating the label to reflect today’s nutritional concerns and include more realistic [...]
Though I’ve written about this in the WSJ and the NY Times before, I thought I’d lay out a more succinct approach to something that millions now struggle with. The fact that the FDA has approved a second new injectable drug to lower very high cholesterol, Amgen’s Repatha, means [...]
A little estrogen in the wrong place (like around your waist, or in your food) can drop your other hormone levels, warp your reproductive system, and ruin your whole day. It’s a healthy living fact that’s little discussed, but for those with canary-in-the-coal-mine immune systems, or [...]
As many as a third of people over 65 take anticholinergic drugs—shown to increase risk for dementia, including Alzheimer’s–significantly. But most don’t know it. These drugs do have short term benefits, but many people do not even know that they are anti-cholinergic drugs. [...]
I gave a talk at UCSB’s Food Summit recently UCSB coverage here, which is part of the important University of California Global Food Initiative. You can look at a condensed slideshare of the talk here, or check it out below. My idea: food can save the life of medicine, [...]
In Part 1, I covered what the liver does and how it works, and why you should love your liver; here, in part 2, I cover liver healthy foods; good diet foods are discussed elsewhere. What can you do to avoid liver disease? If your waist is more than [...]
