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Top Natural Ways to Maintain Strong Bones
Article at-a-glance: Maintaining strong bones is crucial for protecting your health and doing all the things you love. Advancing age, medications, chronic inflammation and diseases can harm bone, so it’s important to understand what you can do to protect yourself....
Top Natural Ways to De-Stress
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...
The Osteoporosis Diet
Your daily choices matter. No single food you eat will sabotage your health. But your overall eating pattern creates what your future health. This blog provides an overview of how you can eat to reduce your osteoporosis and fracture risks. In my book, Fracture-Proof...
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...
More Bad News for Acid-Blocking Medications
Every day, millions and millions of people take acid blocking medications to treat the symptoms of acid reflux, for duodenal ulcers and as an important part of a treatment strategy to kill the H. pylori infection. The US FDA approved these medications, which...
Top Natural Strategies for Healthy Mood
Article at-a-glance: Depression is the leading cause of sickness and disability around the world. While helpful and appropriate for some patients, antidepressants have a poor track record. Simple and effective natural strategies improve mood and energy without...
3 Ways to Ensure a Healthy Gut
Article at-a-glance: A healthy gut is required for creating optimal health and a fundamental approach to health in naturopathic medicine is to “treat the gut. Gut immunity plays a central role in systemic health and can cause headaches, eczema, and joint pain. Learn...
How COVID-19 Will Make You a Better Person
Article at-a-glance: The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has upended all of our lives and routines. People under high stress make worse decisions, which we all want to protect against, especially now. Here are my top suggestions for reorienting your focus, adjusting...
The USDA Once Again Sacrifices Public Health
Article at-a-glance: The USDA dietary guidelines known as MyPlate increase a person’s risk for heart disease, the nation’s leading cause of death, and other health problems. Studies show that refined grains and dairy are harmful to health, but these foods are staples...
Dr. Neustadt Quarantined from COVID-19
Article at-a-glance: According to several epidemiological studies, unless drastic action is taken we’re currently on track to double the number of COVID-19 cases every six days. The American Health Association estimates that our healthcare system is about to be...
Top Micronutrient Deficiencies
Article at-a-glance: Refined grains, added sugar and starchy vegetables, account for 42% of the average American’s calories, while whole grains and fruit make up just 9%. This creates micronutrient deficiencies, which damage mitochondria, create breaks in DNA and...
The Silent Disease of Vitamin D Deficiency
Article at-a-glance: Vitamin D deficiency is a serious health threat that needs to be on everyone’s radar. Vitamin D regulates the functions of more than 200 genes and is one of the most important molecules for our health. Vitamin D is so important to health that a...
The Cholesterol Mistake Everyone Is Making
Article at-a-glance: Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing someone in the U.S. every 90 seconds. For decades we’ve all heard how important health cholesterol levels are for preventing heart disease, but that advice was mostly...
Stop the Burn—7 Proven Ways to Stop Acid Reflux
Article at-a-glance: Each year 60% of adults experience some type of heartburn, and up to 30% experience it weekly. GERD can develop into a precancerous condition of the esophagus called Barrett’s Esophagus. Acid-blocking medications may increase your risk of...