An understanding of cellular function based on the Energy and Information cells need, which we get from food and relationships, inevitably leads to “combustion;” much like any engine, which also obey thermodynamic principles, our cells generate Free Radicals, or Oxidants. They need to

I know; a little callous, but an article just came out showing that aspirin reduces the rate of relapse of breast cancer by 50%.[1] If you have not been reading cutting edge medical literature this may seem odd. Well, you may find this other report even more perplexing: women taking a

Last month I reported that “probiotaceuticals” are likely going to be the next bubble in pharmaceuticals. Knowing Big Pharma, they will come up with a name like “buggutexx” (I should patent it): “A poorly appreciated truism is that the information contained within the mammalian genome

I am not in the 20% of Americans who feel they will be benefitted.[1] Before you jump to conclusions, allow me to explain: I was a republican in school, democrat as a rebellious young man and now, as a middle aged integrative doctor, naturally, I am an independent. A year ago I felt w

We knew it was coming; it was only a matter of time. Ever since the New England J. of Medicine published the article that finally addressed the true mechanism of how cholesterol drugs work, I waited for the other shoe to drop: if regulators agree, the pool of people in the United Stat

“Until America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as a mere doggerel to memorize in college, but for its humanizing and ennobling energy, she will not  have succeeded in that high sense which alone makes a nation out of people; that which raises it from a dead nam

As we start a new decade, let us see what “2020 vision” may have in store for us, according to a landmark issue in the Journal of the American Medical Association: “As a result of rigorous scientific investigation, several therapeutic and preventive modalities currently deemed element

Hopefully you have already seen the movie “Invictus”. I cannot do justice to the many messages it had for all of us. Suffice it to say that the poem “invictus” sustained me in my youth. As I got older, I came to see it as a bit arrogant but a necessary part of development; after being