This is an interesting opinion written in the Wall Street Journal on January 9, 2009. It was co-authored by Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish, Rustum Roy and Andrew Weil. “The evidence is mounting that diet and lifestyle are the best cures for our worst afflictions.” In mid-February, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of [...]

Delivering co-enzyme Q10 in its reduced form (Ubiquinol) and in a soft gel capsule may increase the bioavailability of the nutrient, according to a new study. Researchers from Canada’s KGK Synergize compared CoQ10 formulations (usually called Ubiquinone) from hard and soft gel capsules, and found the reduced form from the latter resulted in a 3.3-fold [...]

Your body can throw you for a loop at any time. You wake up with a sore throat on the day of your office holiday party, a seafood-salad sandwich leaves you with grumbling indigestion, or you overdo it at the gym and arrive home with a stiff neck. Wouldn’t it be great to have a [...]

One or twice a year, my wife and I get together with a group of friends I made when I trained or taught at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Last night we got together to celebrate Hannukah, eat latkes and play “Dreidel” on the fifth night of the festival. Before dinner, Dr. John Belmont, [...]

Last post, I talked about the “Gender-Bender” toxins in our environment. This week I want to comment on a couple of other areas dealing with toxins to which we are exposed. These topics concern food that we eat. The first topic comes from a friend of mine, Ellen Dorshow-Gordon, an Epidemiologist nurse for the Jackson [...]

Funny name for a topic, right? Not really. When I was in my last year of training as a Chief Resident in Pediatrics who was doing a years worth of training in Pediatric Endocrinology, I saw a number of children referred to the KU Children’s Center for early-onset puberty. I thought I had learned all [...]

I came across an interesting article today on a topic I’ve lectured about during this past year. How safe is our drinking water? According to a study done by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), “‘straight from the mountains’ bottled water is not so pure after all.” Yesterday, EWG released an industry-rattling report that reveals the [...]

Why Should You Eat Fruits and Vegetables Every Day? Scientific research shows that eating fruits and vegetables every day reduces the risk of: Cancer Coronary Heart Disease Elevated cholesterol levels Vitamin deficiencies One of the wonderful things that happens when you eat fruits and vegetables every day is the consumption of the beneficial chemicals they [...]

Ever wonder where the expression “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” comes from? Well, there may be some good scientific evidence that this is valid. The results of an animal study published by The American Physiological Society found that Quercetin, a powerful antioxidant present in apples and other fruits and vegetables, may have [...]

Glutathione is one of the body’s master antioxidants. It is not an essential nutrient and can be made from the amino acids L-cysteine, L-glutamic acid and glycine. It does require the use of ATP in the two-step process in making Glutathione. While all cells in the human body are capable of synthesizing glutathione, liver glutathione [...]