There is a growing body of research showing that it is not simply the amount of total estrogen circulating in your body that is critical to your health. How estrogen is broken down, or metabolized in the body may also play an important role in the cause of a variety …
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Electrolytes are essential to health and contrary to what some may think, electrolytes are essential to everyone, not just athletes. Body fluids are primarily water and electrolytes. Electrolytes are ions comprised of 4 minerals that include Sodium, (Na) Potassium, (K), Magnesium (Mg), and Calcium (Ca). An ion is the disassociated …
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Cancer Prevention Medical experts believe that by the end of 2008 there will be 1,437,180 new cancer cases and 565,650 cancer deaths. Many Americans are now turning to nutrition as the key to prevention. We are exposed to many toxic chemicals daily that are known to be carcinogenic. Our main line …
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Cholesterol lowering drugs are a 100 billion dollar industry but is cholesterol really of foe? Or perhaps it could be a friend? Does high cholesterol directly contribute to Cardiovascular Disease? Does lowering cholesterol prevent all heart attacks? I have many patients with cholesterol problems and find that almost no one …
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I have had an increasingly high number of patients suffering from Candida and I wanted to explore the issue further due to the wide use, and misuse of this term in the media, which can cause confusion with patients. Traditional medicine has become more expectant of Candida (where as in …
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One question I am asked often is, “I’m growing older, so should I take extra amounts of calcium to prevent osteoporosis?” The correct answer is, “Only if your individual metabolism requires it and the only way to tell that is through testing.” Calcium is probably the nutrient I recommend most …
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We are now seeing that oxidative stress is chronically linked to autoimmune disease. While many health care practitioners say that we do not know the cause of autoimmunity, new research shows that this same oxidative stress is to blame. I recently attended a seminar on this subject and we looked …
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Known as the “building blocks” of proteins, amino acids play a variety of critical roles in our physiology. Their availability to body tissues has the potential to affect several clinical conditions when supply is inadequate. Amino acids have more diverse functions than any other nutrient group. They are a factor …
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Our body pH is maintained just above 7.0 for optimal health. When we keep this pH, our metabolism, enzymes, immune system, and repair mechanisms work most effectively. And, when our pH is kept at this level it indicates that we have enough buffering minerals to balance the acids in our …
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