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Are your prescription medications robbing your body of nutrients, causing side effects?

When you take prescription medications, the last thing you want to feel is worse! The reason you’re taking them in the first place is to feel better. Unfortunately, it turns out that a number of drugs can make you feel worse, and part of it maybe due to something you...

Making Healthy Habits Stick

How many times have you given up an unhealthy habits and landed right back where you started? If you answered “that’s me,” don’t beat yourself up; you’re definitely not alone. Most of us want to adopt and stick to healthy habits, but few of us are able to do so...

Back to Nature

Back to Nature One of the six principles of Naturopathic Medicine invokes “The Healing Power of Nature. As I reflect on this principle, I am reminded of one my professors in med school -- Dr. Tori Hudson. “My daily mantra with patients is to be outside- somehow or...

Dietary Fiber: More than Preventing Constipation

When a patient reports constipation, I immediately follow up with questions about their consumption of water and fiber. In my clinical experience, 90 percent of the constipation cases that I’ve encountered were due to nothing more than dehydration and the lack...

Water First – Not Coffee !

For many, a cup of coffee is one the very first rituals of the morning. Slogans, such as "the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup" have reinforced the notion that somehow our morning will not start out right without a cup of coffee, whether...

The Downfall of Counting Calories

You’ve been so determined to lose weight that you’ve decided to do the “responsible” thing: start counting calories. But after days, weeks or even months, you step on the scale expecting to see the magical number you’ve dreamt about. Instead, you find that the scale...

A failing phallus: an early sign of heart disease?

Erectile dysfunction, commonly known as ED, is the persistent inability to develop or maintain an erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance. While ED affects 50% of men older than 40 years of age, it is not a normal part of aging, as many people are led...

Boys on Drugs: The Ritalin Epidemic

A recent article on the cover of Esquire magazine entitled “The Drugging of the American Boy” caught my attention. The article was about the prevalent use of dangerous stimulant drugs to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Boys are significantly more...

Cholesterol: The Good, Bad and Ugly

“Good” Cholesterol Cholesterol is a sterol, which is a type of fat or lipid that is found in the cells in vertebrate animals, but is not found in plant cells*. Cholesterol is a vital constituent of animal cell membranes, and it acts as a building block for the...

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