Don’t let a conventional doctor dismiss your questions about B vitamins and your fatigue, not after reading this study from Japan. While there are literally hundreds of medical reasons for someone to feel tired, studies like this suggest that we should keep B12 and Folate in that list rather than just blame a stressful lifestyle…
The verdict is final on UPFs (ultra-processed foods), and it should get more news attention than the UFO hype we put up with. Even if a UFO never lands on the White House lawn, every day millions of Americans are consuming cardiovascular poisons and loving it. These UPFs have been clearly shown to increase a…
Apparently, various endurance exercise habits train not only your muscles and cardio but also your immune system’s natural killer cells. Who would have thought that pushing through a few miles on the trails or on the bike would help train immune cells to keep balance in the later years? Earlier studies often indicated that after…
We all want answers, especially when it comes to our children’s health, but we need to be clear about whether something is the chicken or the egg. Just because we find a correlation between a medicine and a disease, does not mean that we have a cause. It just means that we are on to…
Vitamin D stands out among the most critical and most researched nutrients. The list below only scratches the surface of known and suspected benefits of maintaining adequate vitamin D. It is actually more of a hormone than a vitamin in its mechanisms of action and in being produced from cholesterol metabolism. While nearly all recognize…
Wisdom encourages a careful evaluation of both the cost of care and the cost of not caring. The first is so obvious mentioning it seems frivolous. Read more and you will be surprised. The second goes easily forgotten, but the losses of inaction deserve more attention than they receive. The Cost of Caring for…
After years of denial and disgust, Drs. George, Uri, and Newton unanimously pledged to leave their joyless specialty medical practices behind and journey into the jungle in search of renewed purpose in medicine. Dr. George knew there had to be more to medicine than hurried visits and decreasing reimbursement for procedures, but he couldn’t bear…
Throughout history new tools have often brought about unintended consequences in society and our new field of mRNA vaccines appear to fall into that category of possible ‘uh-oh.’ Multiple times, even in recent decades, initial excitement over drug discoveries has turned into dashed dreams and even scandals. With the COVID epidemic, mRNA technology, which had…
While the internet and its many medical practitioners have launched telemedicine from science fiction into everyday habit, the ability to see your provider from home does not always equate into being good enough for every type of medical visit. Though it is true that the foundation of a diagnosis rests on the patient’s story, there…
The world of conventional medicine seems to continue its doubt of natural therapies at every turn- at least until its own methods prove a natural therapy works. Then conventional medicine hijacks it for a medication. Once again, researchers have found omega 3’s, in this case the EPA form, to have significant benefit for patients with…