EDITOR’S NOTE The controversy over the Paleo Diet is gathering more steam. Being an integrative doctor I look for the Middle Road. We have known for decades that some people don’t do well with grains and legumes. Wheat in particular is so refined and processed (think GMOs)

EDITOR’S NOTE  Best wishes for this New Year. I hope you resolve to work on the 90% of factors (diet, environment, relationships) that affect your health, most of which are not covered by the Affordable Care Act or by our present Health Care system.1 This is one of the reasons w

EDITOR’S NOTE We have reporting on the brain-gut connection since the inception of this newsletter. Briefly, it means that the food we eat, the toxins generated in the gut and in the environment, and the bacteria that live therein influence brain function, including mood and cog

EDITOR’S NOTE A well-intended sympathizer of Integrative Health recently reminded me of an insidious issue that causes misunderstandings among skeptics. Her zeal for her companies’ Iodine is often seen as unrealistic and not science-based, which tends to confirm their susp

EDITOR’S NOTE The cholesterol story leaves out significant facts in order to focus on the treatment of cholesterol with pharmaceuticals. While this is helpful in certain cases, it is not the only way to address arterial problems. One glaring omission is the fact that cholesterol

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,