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Lemon Balm Improves Sleep Quality In Placebo-Controlled RCT

By Janet Gulland, Contributing Writer

These days, a lot of people could use some help in improving their sleep. A phytosomal extract of Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) may be just the ticket for many of them. Data from a recent double-blind crossover study of 30 people with chronic insomnia show that nightly supplementation with 400 mg of Melissa officinalis Phytosome® […]

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Are Weight-Loss Drugs Contributing to a Fall in the Obesity Rate?

By Joshua Cohen

(This article was originally published by Undark.org on Dec. 9, 2024, and republished here with permission) Earlier this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported data showing that adult obesity rates — long trending upwards — had fallen modestly over the past few years, from 41.9 to 40.3 percent. The decline sparked discussion […]

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Heavy Metals & Mineral Deficiencies: A Double Whammy for Migraine Patients

By Robert Bonakdar, MD, Contributing Writer

When we think of triggers for migraine episodes, we often consider dietary offenders like alcohol, nitrates, and monosodium glutamate. A new study suggests that we should also be considering heavy metal exposures, especially in patients who also have trace element deficiencies.  Researchers at the University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands, and Yozgat Bozok University, Yozgat, Turkey, […]

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Interview: What Biden’s Covid Czar Learned From the Pandemic

By By Sara Talpos, Originally published Nov 2024 on Undark

Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, served as the White House Covid-19 response coordinator from March 2022 to June 2023. On Monday, after delivering the keynote for an infectious disease symposium at the University of Michigan, Jha sat down with Undark to discuss what the country got wrong, and what […]

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Trump 2.0: Implications for Holistic Medicine

By Erik Goldman

Healthcare was not a high-priority campaign issue for either candidate in 2024. But Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, to head the Department of Health & Human Services, and Mehmet Oz, MD, to run Medicare and Medicaid, as well as his promises to tame drug costs, eliminate Medicare fraud, and “make America healthy […]

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Clinical Pearls for Weight-Health Wins, with Calocurb—A Natural GLP-1 Activator

By Erik Goldman

GLP-1 receptor agonists are transforming clinical practices and protocols for significant weight-health wins. In this free webinar, you will learn the science behind a clinically-proven natural GLP-1 activator called Calocurb, and how it can be used with and without prescription medications. You’ll discover a supplement derived from hops, and clinically shown to reduce cravings by […]

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The Leapfrog Effect: New Tech Moves Tests, Treatments Out of the Clinic

By Erik Goldman

For a lot of people these days, medical clinics are no longer the center of the healthcare equation like they were in the past: their smartphones are now the point of focus. An astonishing number of medical tests, treatments, and services have jumped out of the clinic and into peoples’ daily lives via their computers, […]

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Maybe She’s Just Tired, Maybe It’s Undiagnosed Iron Deficiency

By Lourdes Medrano

(Originally published on Aug 24, 2024 by www.undark.org) About three years ago, Soumya Rangarajan struggled day after day with exhaustion, headaches, and heart palpitations. As a frontline hospital doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic, she first attributed her symptoms to the demands of an unprecedented health care crisis. But a social media post got Rangarajan thinking […]

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Can Curcumin Attenuate Type 2 Diabetes? You Beta!

By August West, Contributing Writer

Daily supplementation with 1,500 mg of curcumin extract reduced fasting blood glucose, lowered hemoglobin A1c, and improved pancreatic β-cell function in obese people with type 2 diabetes. Those are the topline findings from a recent, year-long, placebo-controlled trial, involving 229 participants. Curcumin-treated patients also got a small but significant bonus benefit: weight loss. “We believe […]

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In Memoriam: Gladys T. McGarey, MD (Nov 30, 1920 – Sept 28, 2024)

By Erik Goldman

The cosmologists tell us we are made of ‘star-stuff,’ that the elements and energies of which we are comprised have their origins in the sun. For most of us, that’s theoretical. But some people seem to embody this truth. Their very presence emanates a certain shine that illuminates and invigorates everyone and everything around them. […]

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