A patient comes to me with a lab report showing a rise in creatinine, along with a chilling sentence her doctor told her: your kidneys are failing. She also has a two-page supplement protocol. By the time she is in my chair, this patient has been frightened for weeks. She’s also confused about what might […]
(This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article.) In the 1960s, biophysicist Norman J. “Jeff” Holter commercialized a portable electrocardiogram — now known as a Holter monitor — which allowed patients with heart palpitations, a condition known as syncope (a medical term for fainting), or other cardiac issues to be monitored outside […]
One patient arrives with an autism diagnosis, another with ADHD, a third with anxiety. On paper, three separate conditions. But order the right labs and the same patterns turn up: low zinc, elevated copper, sluggish methylation, signs of oxidative stress. Outwardly, the diagnoses differ. The underlying biochemistry often doesn’t. These three diagnoses that present quite […]
On July 23 and 24, the Food and Drug Administration’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) met to consider whether a set of peptides should be added to the 503A Bulks List, which would permit licensed compounding pharmacies to legally make these drugs by physician prescription. In a reversal of the committee’s past stance, PCAC voted […]
Many clinicians are missing opportunities to prevent neuropathy by failing to check vitamin B12 levels in their diabetic patients on metformin. That’s the conclusion of a massive scoping review of evidence from databases across the globe, undertaken by Ian Parsonage and colleagues at the School of Health Sciences at the University of Bath, UK. The […]
Pistachio nuts are a rich source of naturally-occurring melatonin, and Australian researchers have shown that supplementation with pistachio-derived melatonin is equally effective in improving sleep parameters, as more the widely available synthetic forms of melatonin. Some cultivars of pistachio (Pistacia vera, Anacardiaceae) naturally produce as much as 223 µg/g of phytomelatonin. That fact prompted Network […]
Lyme disease is often thought of as a tick bite and a bullseye rash, followed by a course of antibiotics. The reality is much more complicated. First, Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness, the primary bacterial pathogen being the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. But because it is transmitted by ticks, there are often other pathogens present […]
Pain and chronic inflammation underlie many conditions that holistic practitioners encounter every day — from joint degeneration and neuropathy to migraine, menstrual disorders, and post-exercise recovery. Yet the dominant pharmaceutical toolkit remains constrained by adverse effects, dependency risk, and an inability to address the underlying biology of neuroinflammation. This webinar invites you to explore palmitoylethanolamide […]
If you take dietary supplements for your own health, if you recommend them to your patients, if they are an important part of your clinical protocols, then your life has been touched by the work of Loren D. Israelsen, JD. For more than four decades, Israelsen has been a key player in the development and […]
Daily supplementation with 360 μg of menaquinone-7, a form of vitamin K2, slowed the progression of coronary artery calcification in a cohort of individuals with confirmed atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. That’s the upshot of a new two-year clinical trial just published in JAMA Cardiology by researchers based at the Maastricht University Medical Center, Netherlands. All 180 […]
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