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Air quality is getting worse, and it’s not just the fire, smoke and excessive heat: it’s the cauldron of toxins, VOCs and, bizarrely, the threat of diabetes that loom. The worst? the Las Vegas area had 145 days of pollution and poor air quality in 2016, a little higher [...]
One key to breast cancer survival is early detection. And breast screenings remain the gold standard for that early detection, typically in the form of routine mammograms. However, often painful, and sometimes inaccurate, mammography has generated false-positive test results, leading women to [...]
The purpose in preventing a man’s second heart attack is to prevent death. And disability. In other words, it’s quality of life, not just quantity. For decades, American physicians have proscribed alcohol to men, warning of its dangers (which are real, if done in excess) and putting [...]
Food as medicine wins again…against cancer. Sure, it’s just reduced recurrence of cancer (just like the treatment of metastatic colon cancer, with the Standard American Diet (SAD) causing 3.5x recurrence vs a prudent diet). But lots of my food as medicine patients never want to see [...]