Organochlorines and Brain Toxicity – What Can We Do?
Organochlorines can be regularly detected in our population and environment and they are directly toxic to the brain even at low levels of exposure.
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Normalizing the Microbiome in C-Section Delivered Babies
In this small but important study, C-section babies were swabbed with mother’s vaginal fluids at birth. Those babies swabbed demonstrated greater similarity to vaginal-delivered babies.
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USDA Withdraws Grass-Fed Meat Labeling – What Does This Mean for Consumers?
But on January 12th of this year, the USDA withdrew its Grass Fed Marketing Claim Standard meaning that livestock producers can no longer label their products USDA Grass Fed.
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Do You Suffer From Paleo-Deficit Disorder?
Paleo-deficit disorder? Waaaaay beyond eating more meat, less grain:
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Are We Done with Statins Yet?
Are we done we these yet? Statins deplete everything you want AND likely contribute to heart disease
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Early Warning for Cardiac Arrest (Don’t Forget Fish Oil!)
Sudden Cardiac Arrest- New Research On Early Warning Signs. (Don’t Forget Fish Oil!) My beloved experienced chest pain a few months ago. Given that his family history is significant for heart disease, we played it safe and went to the emergency department. He was fine thankfully, but a he was little sheepish about going to…
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Too Many Eggs? No Such Thing!
Get out your eggs, folks: Cholesterol is NOT, I repeat NOT, a “nutrient of concern for overconsumption”.
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Fish Stocks and Climate Change – What to Do?
We know we’re overfishing these days. Worm, B et al in 2006 stated in the journal Science “Unless major changes are enacted now, the timetable predicted is for the global collapse of all taxa currently fished by the mid-21st century
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BRCA1 and Alzheimer’s
Protective BRCA1 protein levels are lower in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer’s.
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Take Care of My Health .. DONE!
Do you want to know how to dramatically improve your health in only 6 days? Do you want to make dietary or lifestyle changes but are afraid of big commitments?
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Reversing Alzheimer’s Symptoms with FxMed
We know that Fxmed approaches can be very helpful with Reversing Alzheimer’s Disease, especially in the early stages. Glucose dysregulation, food sensitivities, nutrient deficiencies
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Step it up, FDA!
The FDA has issued its first official guidelines to limit “added sugar” consumption to no more than 10% of calories or 12.5 tsp per day. While this kind of movement is very much needed, we’ll need to do better if we want to really address diet-driven health concerns (think diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, depression,…
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What Fats Do I Use?
Today, I was asked this great question about what types of fat to use: I heard from few people that we shouldn’t cook or fry with extra virgin olive oil. I use that for everything. Do you recommend another type of oil for cooking, sauteing onions etc? Knowing what fats to include in your diet…
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The Low Fat Effect?
Are we still spending time trying to prove/disprove the low fat effect? Apparently so. Lancet has just published another meta-analysis looking at randomized controlled trials, funded by NIH and the American Diabetes Association. Not surprisingly, low fat didn’t work when compared to low carbohydrate interventions. Low fat also lead to NO DIFFERENCE when compared to…
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Carrageenan: An Under-Recognized Cause of Inflammation
A 55 YO male presented to our office with a diagnosis of chronic Lyme. His primary symptoms are intense, migrating myalgias. In his own research (keeping a pain diary) he makes the discovery that 15 minutes after eating “natural” turkey lunch meat, he has a profound flare in pain. An ingredient in this meat? Carrageenan.…
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