Articles
Why Melatonin isn’t Enough
The number of people with problems sleeping is epidemic. Nearly everyone has some difficulty sleeping at some point in their lives, but seventy million Americans suffer from diagnosed sleep disorders. And what we know is that if that many people have been...
Top Adaptogenic and Calming Herbs for Sleep
Article at-a-glance: Americans are sleep deprived, and insomnia is a common problem, especially as we get older To address insomnia, we must first address our ability to handle stress The body’s innate stress response system, the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA)...
A Practical Approach to Avoiding Drug-Nutrient Depletions
Article at-a-glance: Fifty-five percent of Americans now take at least one drug and almost 12% take five or more prescriptions drugs. Doctors and pharmacists almost never discuss drug-induced nutrient depletions with patients even though the fix is easy--simply take...
Top Three Ways Supplement Companies Fail You
Article at-a-glance: Since the FDA isn’t authorized to review dietary supplements for safety and effectiveness before they’re marketed, consumers need to ask the right questions before buying. Many supplements use inferior, inexpensive nutrients that have low...
Hey Doc, What’s the Best Way to Take My Supplements?
There seems to be a lot of confusion around taking dietary supplements because I’m frequently asked what the best way is to take dietary supplements. Should you take them with food? Should you take them between meals? Should you take them with a specific type...
The Osteoporosis Crisis is Worse Than We Thought
Article at-a-glance: A newly released study shows that this healthcare crisis is much worse than we thought, and this silent killer is affecting people at a much younger age. A 50-year-old woman has a similar lifetime risk of dying from hip fracture as from breast...
Top Reasons to Take Nattokinase
Article at-a-glance: Nattokinase, an enzyme derived from the Japanese food natto, is a powerful support for optimal blood flow Nattokinase has been shown to mimic and enhance the activity of our own natural clot-dissolving enzyme, plasmin Optimal, healthy blood...
Top Tips for Improving Blood Viscosity
Article at-a-glance: Blood viscosity is linked to high blood pressure to autoimmune illnesses, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, depression and even cancer. Many doctors don’t think of blood viscosity when evaluating patients. It’s likely that many Americans...
Willing but Unable: How Insomnia Kills a Man’s Sex Life
Article at-a-glance: Poor sleep devastates physical and mental health, especially in men. Sleep deprivation wreaks havoc on a man’s sexual health, destroying sex drive, decreasing fertility, testosterone and causing erectile dysfunction. If that weren’t enough, men...
Top Natural Ways to Reverse Bone Loss
Article at-a-glance: Osteoporosis weakens bones and increases your risk for fractures and death. Advancing age, medications and diseases can cause osteoporosis, so it’s important to understand what you can do to protect yourself. Fortunately, natural approaches can...
Top Natural Stress Relievers
Article at-a-glance: Layer onto everyday life a global pandemic, national stay-at-home orders and the economy nosediving into a recession, and if you’ve never before experienced an anxiety attack, this may just push you over the edge. Now more than ever, learning how...
Anti-Age Your Blood Vessels
Article at-a-glance: Blood pressure is controlled by a combination of blood vessel elasticity and blood viscosity. High blood pressure increases your risk for a heart attack and stroke. Most doctors don’t think about blood vessel elasticity and viscosity, or discuss...
The Osteoporosis Diet
Your daily choices matter. No single food you eat will sabotage your health. But your overall eating pattern is prescient—it determines what your future health will likely be. You can’t exercise away a bad diet and you can’t wish away the reality that your choices...
Osteoporosis: A Global Health Crisis
Article at-a-glance: By 2050 the globally there will be up to 21.3 million hip fractures each year. Globally, 80-90% of patients with osteporotic fractures go untreated. Family members and medical professionals bear the burden of short-term and long-term care,...
Do This One Thing to Be Happier and Live Longer
Being kind to others is a common teaching in all religions. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism all emphasize the importance of doing acts of loving-kindness. It seems that science has caught up with what religions and societies have known for...