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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Can Curcumin Attenuate Type 2 Diabetes? You Beta!

By Erik Goldman

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 […]

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. […]

Dietary Fiber Intake Has Impact on Peripheral Artery Disease

By Janet Gulland, Contributing Writer

Everyone knows that dietary fiber is essential for digestive health, and that fiber-rich diets reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. A new cross-sectional analysis of data from more than 4,600 Americans indicates that high intake of dietary fiber may also lower the risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD). Researchers at the Shenzhen Clinical Research Centre […]

How the FDA Could Shape the Future of Psychedelics Research

By Joshua Cohen

(Originally published by www.undark.org, Aug 5, 2024) In August, the US Food and Drug Administration decided not to approve the psychedelic drug MDMA (midomafetamine) for use in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder in conjunction with psychological intervention. The move signals the FDA’s desire to put the brakes on the psychedelics research, which has rapidly  moved […]

Stress and Sleep Supps: Choose Them Wisely

By Erik Goldman

Stress and sleep are two of the most important determinants of overall health. Many people have too much of the former, and not nearly enough of the latter. Add in poor diet and lack of exercise, and you’ve got an equation for chronic disease. People recognize that constant stress and poor sleep are inter-related, and […]