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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– [...]
JAMA has a section called “100 years ago” in which the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) quotes a column from its archives, verbatim. Last week, it was January 13, 1912 WATER-DRINKING WITH MEALS “…While the ingestion of moderate quantities of water with [...]
Half the U.S. takes at least one supplement daily. My personal favorite is a guy who came into my office with a Trader Joe’s double-handled bag and deposited 33 bottles on my desk. 45 minutes later…* Three reports this week again show that dietary supplements can act like [...]
Omega-3 fatty acids are powerful: with vitamin D, they’re something that almost everyone needs to supplement, no matter how good your diet. Why? Because people with heart disease who just had a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) had a 49% lower risk for dying 30 days after their CABG [...]
Last year, my Mom had her first operation: a total knee replacement. What could she eat to heal and recover from surgery? Active and curious, and having recently celebrated her 29th birthday again, her mother was turning 100 shortly and needed assistance. Mom wasn’t able to get around well [...]
The IOM expert report on Vitamin D and Calcium suggests two changes: increasing your vitamin D intake from 200IU (under age 50) to 600IU daily, or 800IU if you are 71 or older; and not supplementing with calcium. The new safe daily upper limit of vitamin D is 4000IU; [...]
Earlier this month, I got a flu shot. I also took 2000IU of vitamin D3. Some people see this as redundant. Not me. The recent news that pregnant women who get flu shots protect their fetuses and themselves meshes perfectly with the recent news that vitamin D3 is more [...]
Herbalgram published 2009 herbal supplement sales, and the industry is going gangbusters, with nearly $250 billion in sales last year. What’s especially interesting to me is that nearly all the top herbal supplements sold are not herbs. Herbs are leaves. Spices are nearly everything else in a [...]
This week I gave a seminar to attorneys who are interested in weight loss. Specifically, in how those drugs make it to market, and how they’re marketed, advertised and labeled: you can look thru it on slideshare.net and weight loss drugs. I dug through the literature to prepare. Nearly [...]
Not bad for a simple B vitamin, widely available and inexpensive. 818 healthy people ages 50 to 75 took either 800 micrograms of folic acid/day or placebo for 3 years in a new Dutch dementia study, the abstract is below. On memory tests, the folate-takers were 5.5 years younger, [...]