A lot of healthcare providers I know who are also fans of bone broth spend a lot of time trying to convince their vegetarian patients to eat bone broth. While I do think bone broth is essential, I don’t think that’s particularly fair to vegetarians. So, if a patient is unwilling to try bone broth, [...]
Vitamin D is a unique vitamin. It is the only vitamin that the human body can produce naturally. Vitamin D is often called the “sunshine vitamin” due to the fact that the body can synthesize vitamin D as a result of direct exposure to sunlight on the skin. Recently, this vitamin has been getting a [...]
Essential fatty acids (EFA), specifically Omega 3s, have been in the news a lot recently. They’ve also been the subject of a number of research studies. And rightly so! Omega 3 fatty acids, known commonly by two constituents EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), play a role in myriad processes in the body. One [...]
The word Calcium makes most people think of two other words – bones and milk. Calcium is essential for having strong bones and teeth. Calcium also plays essential roles in myriad other functions in the body, such as the function of the nervous system and the heart, and even in cancer prevention, according to research [...]
Trans fats have been in the news a lot lately. But what are they and what do they really do to us? In science-speak, trans fats are unsaturated fats (they’re always unsaturated and never saturated fats) with at least one trans-isomer fatty acid. Trans fats are exceptionally rare in nature. They are a product of [...]
Take a moment to read this article on Rodale. It talks about new research from the journal PLoS ONE on Bisphenol-A (BPA), an endocrine hormone (estrogen) mimic found in plastics that disrupts the body’s normal estrogen. In this case, heart tissue exposed to BPA lost its ability to maintain normal rhythm (arrhythmia) by changing cellular [...]
Please take a moment to read the recent blog post of Bill Couzins, Founder of Less Cancer. Here’s my favorite line: “People in the United States live under the false impression that if something is legal, it is safe for humans and the environment…. None of this is about panic, but it is about avoiding [...]
More on the studies on Bisphenol-A (BPA) that I mentioned here. In this blog post by Tara Parker-Pope, some great quotes from the researchers who conducted the canned soup study… Dr. Michels noted that all the participants were fed amounts of soup that were smaller than what people probably would consume on their own. “One [...]
I’m going to start this off with two quotes. The first is from a Harvard research study published in JAMA, the second from Evolutionary Psychiatry paraphrasing an article from the journal Pediatrics. Neither is funny. Both are scary. “Urine samples were taken on the 4th and 5th days of each phase. Urinary BPA was found [...]
I have long been a microwave avoider. Microwaving food and drinks changes the molecular shapes of everything exposed to microwave radiation. In addition to the chemical changes that occur in microwaved food – even water! – the heat of microwaving can also speed up the leaching of toxins from plastics into your food. Dr Mercola [...]
