EDITOR’S NOTE I hope you have been following the GMO[1] issue (see my blogs.) Despite the Food Industry’s and Monsanto’s efforts to discredit anyone who opposes them as purveyors of pseudoscience, the public still smells a rat. Connecticut just passed a law requiring

EDITOR’S NOTE Does anyone still think that science is immune to biases, money, ideologies, and politics? As much as we would like to believe so, we are often reminded that we must follow the money to interpret any fact or statement. Take for instance Dr. Paul A. Offit who has go

EDITOR’S NOTE The first few articles presented this month share a common denominator: a lack of emphasis on the root of diseases in our broken health care system. While overemphasizing symptomatic treatment with drugs and surgery, we neglect more important issues like nutrition,

EDITOR’S NOTE This is a special edition of the newsletter, more specifically a shameless plug for my new book which will soon be printed. Below you have excerpts from the Introduction section. For now you may get it from the “book” folder in digital form. It comes ou

EDITOR’S NOTE “Personalized medicine is often described as genomics-based knowledge that “promises the ability to approach each patient as the biological individual he or she is”. This is an appealing description, yet unless clinical, social, and environmental

EDITOR’S NOTE Another great article just came out in the JAMA on what we must do as a society to fix our broken Health Care system, “Bridging the divide between health and health care.” [1] I hope you look it up. Its main message has been poorly emphasized in the pas

EDITOR’S NOTE Fatty Liver, the main problem highlighted in this issue, is an excellent example of the web-like function of our holistic body, an approach we document monthly in this newsletter. Fatty Liver also illustrates why an integrative approach is necessary to optimally tr

EDITOR’S NOTE Interestingly, Isis, the Egyptian Goddess of Reason and Wisdom is symbolized by a dog. Many jokes come to mind at first blush, don’t they? But, with a bit of reflection, especially watching my neighbor suffer while he mourns the death of his dog, the reason t