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It’s easy to become cynical in the medical world: too many physicians feel forced to comply with standard metrics that don’t fit the patient in front of them. Many physicians are penalized if they refer to a physician outside their network, even if the physician colleague is more [...]
…but you still need a curator: someone you trust to help you interpret–with and for you–what you find, read, watch. The fact is that you can now learn almost anything you want to learn on the internet. I could, I think, stay in front of my monitor for hours [...]
Wine is bottled poetry (Stevenson), or the civilized drink (Hemingway), or magic. Making wine is, if you can believe it, even better. Wine is also good for you, in small, regular amounts: it almost certainly reduces risk for heart attack and stroke; reduces inflammation (likely the mechanism of [...]
This is an easy one to knock off: and the data very persuasive. The more toxins from hot plastics, the greater the chance (for many people, men and women) of infertility and lower testosterone levels for men. Check your testosterone level. Check your vitamin D level and [...]
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Last month, in visiting New Orleans for Dads 2.0 Summit 2014...an awesome conference filled with bloggers who want to address men, at all levels (proud to be teaching such powerful men about health, and how their bodies see food and fitness), I had two conversations that made me think– [...]
Amid the hub-bub of the week, with the Supreme Court affirmed Affordable Care Act health care law upheld, and with one JAMA study showing that 21 people on 3 different diets for 4 weeks each burn calories differently (no real surprise here: the lowest carb diet had the highest energy burn, [...]
What to look for on an olive oil label would seem easy…and it is. But both NPR and the NYT have had features showcasing why most olive oil sold in the U.S. is not what it claims to be, so you have to know exactly what to look for.. [...]
Our ABC station (KEYT, and former CNN editor Shirin Rafaee) asked me about Dr Oz’ 4 Secret Reasons Women Are Exhausted (previously, we spoke about belly fat). Here they are: 1. Carb Coma: a catchy way to sum up the sharp drop in blood sugar and shunting of blood [...]