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Webinar: AI for Functional Medicine– How FunctionalMind Can Enhance Your Practice

By Erik Goldman

AI technology, used ethically and responsibly, can free you  to spend more quality time face-to-face with patients, keep pace with the latest research, and practice personalized medicine at a scale that once seemed impossible. Watch this FREE demo and see how FunctionalMind—the first AI system purpose-built for functional medicine—can help you accelerate clinical decision-making, work […]

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Are Nitrogen Fertilizers Exacerbating Pollen Allergies?

By Janet Gulland, Contributing Writer

Nitrogen fertilizers, widely used in agriculture, not only boost the quantity of pollen produced by grasses, they also raise the allergenicity of the pollen. And that’s That bad news for allergy sufferers. Researchers at Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, compared pollen production from fertilizer-treated versus untreated Belgian grasslands and found a six-fold increase in pollen loads […]

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The Melatonin-ification of Childhood Bedtimes

By Michael Schulson, Contributing Writer

(This article was originally published on April 8, 2025 by www.undark.org) Two years ago, at a Stop & Shop in Rhode Island, the Danish neuroscientist and physician Henriette Edemann-Callesen visited an aisle stocked with sleep aids containing melatonin. She looked around in amazement. Then she took out her phone and snapped a photo to send […]

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The Uncertain Multigenerational Implications of PFAS

By Nicole Williams

(This article was originally published on January 27, 2025 by www.undark.org) My son was born in late 2019. A few months later, early one morning, I found myself looking into his eyes as he nursed and I wondered if I was doing the right thing. Trying to ignore my nagging worry, I continued nursing him, […]

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Texas Lawmakers Rally Around State Level ‘Mini-MAHA’ Bill

By Janet Gulland, Contributing Writer

The Texas state senate voted unanimously in favor of a health and wellness bill that—if passed by the state’s house—will mandate daily exercise and nutrition education in public schools, require metabolic health training for all medical professionals, and force food makers to label products containing toxic additives banned in other countries. The goals of SB […]

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This Time, Five Years Ago…

By Erik Goldman

It was right about this time, five years ago. I woke up one morning with a raunchy cough, a head full of mucus, and an aching body that felt like a sack of potatoes. “This is weird,” I thought. I seldom get sick, and when I do it’s usually in the November-to-December transition when temperatures […]

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Salt & Skin Disease: What’s the Connection?

By Erik Goldman

Say “sodium” in a medical context, and most people will reflexively think “hypertension,” not psoriasis. But dermatologist Katrina Abuabara and her research team at the University of California San Francisco have amassed considerable evidence suggesting that salt may play a role in development of psoriasis and other inflammatory skin disorders. Based on data from nearly […]

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Back in Office, Trump Swipes at Health Establishments

By Erik Goldman

Beyond the bold promises to “end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy, and disease free,” and to “reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from the military for objecting to the Covid vaccine mandate,” President Donald Trump said little about healthcare in his inauguration speech last week. But during his […]

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Why Alzheimer’s Scientists Are Re-thinking the Amyloid Hypothesis

By Joshua Cohen

(This article was originally published by Undark.org on Jan 7, 2025) For decades, scientists have been trying to develop therapeutics for people living with Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by cognitive decline. Given the global rise in cases, the stakes are high. A study published in The Lancet Public Health reports that the number […]

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