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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Concurrent COVID-19 at the time of an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), raises one-year mortality by 25%, according to new, late-breaking data just presented at the 2026 joint meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) & Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology/Association Canadienne de Cardiologie d’Intervention (CAIC-ACCI) in Montreal. Analysis of outcomes from 2,358 […]
This presentation ‘connects the dots” between telomeres, optimal lifestyle, and health outcomes. Renowned longevity physician Ron Rothenberg, MD, will reveal how telomeres are beneficially impacted by nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, meditation, yoga, or adversely affected by exposure to radiation, environmental toxins, and poor diet Dr. Rothenberg will describe the well-known “canonical” effects of telomerase for […]
Analysis of data from nearly 300,000 UK citizens tracked over a 20-year period shows a decline of up to 25% in grip strength, and a 73% drop in appendicular lean mass (ALM), among continuous statin users compared with people who’d never taken statins. Grip strength diminished by a mean of 0.315 kg per year from […]
Before beginning his tenure as secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted an old picture of his father, Bobby Kennedy, and another man at a drive-in fast food restaurant on the social media platform X. RFK Jr. took the family photograph as an opportunity to rail […]
If the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) 2025-2030 report has taught us anything so far, it’s that people love to argue about food as much as they love to argue about politics. And given that the Guidelines–jointly issued on January 7, by the Department of Health & Human Services and the Department of Agriculture—is […]
GLP-1–based therapies, including glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (e.g., semaglutide), dual incretin agonists (e.g. tirzepatide), and forthcoming GLP-1–modulating drugs like retatrutide, have rapidly reshaped the clinical management of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiometabolic disease. In less than a decade, these drugs have moved from the weight management and endocrinology niches to much wider use in […]
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