Research studies about turmeric or its derivative, curcumin, frequently catch my eye, especially this one that looked at turmeric and glaucoma. Researchers had apparently been testing systemic administration of turmeric for glaucoma (a disease of high pressure inside the eye that can result in blindness). The poor ability of turmeric to dissolve in water had…
Functional medicine should have seen this one coming. Researchers sat around thinking about how to get the anti-cancer spice, curcumin, into cancer cells to do their work. Why not attach doxorubicin to curcumin and see if they would attack cancer cells? In this article researchers reported finding the administration of this new combination chemical would…
I regularly stumble upon research findings which shock others, yet provoke a sighing “of course” from the functional medicine MD crowd. In functional medicine, we recognize the amazingly interdependent metabolic network in which one process touches a hundred others. Our bodies function as an intricate interplay of millions of process simultaneously dancing together. So when…
Sour Medicine for the Flu Video Version HERE Flu season arrived. According to the news channel, this year’s flu leaves behind a trail of suffering. While many of you reading this will agree that news outlets often bias and distort, we can agree that none of us want the flu. We can also agree that…
Vitamins are BAD for you ?!? Hogwash. Try this. See how far you can read the anti-vitamin piece below before noting major bias and distortions. While they are correct that indiscriminate supplementation can be a problem, they dissuade away from all vitamins (title) with a study on D and calcium. In the study, there is…
A cross sectional study recently released in an open access journal called PLOS|one suggests that the correct doses of vitamin B12 and folic acid might relieve symptoms in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for some patients. Researches compared CFS rating scale results for 38 patients receiving various doses of B12 and folic acid to see if any…