Depression will soon become the number one disease in the USA, if it has not already. Sure, we all get a little blue from time to time, but a significant number of people become incapacitated by it. Some even take their lives, unable to escape the darkness that mars their lives. What

I grew up drinking Mate. My cousin Mac hated it. In those days, he was the only obese kid I knew. I regret to admit I called him Tubby. He also had red hair. Anyway, I just ran into another article saying that Mate, an herb drink, helps improve our metabolism.[1] It probably works thr

Here is a follow up on my recent blog on nutritionally deficient doctors: drugs commonly used for seizure disorders (carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital and primidone) raise Vitamin D requirements.[1] This is yet another reason why many of us need to supplement our diets. Hugo Rod

By lowering “normal blood pressure” below 120/80 an additional thirty million Americans will be prescribed medications to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, the most popular diuretics, Hydrochlorothiazide and Lisinopril, have been associated with diabetes, lung and pancreatic cancer, a