I am always looking for the root cause of things, particularly illness. As a scientist, I am fully aware nothing has a single cause, but our experiences in childhood loom large in the genesis of disea

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. S

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 sa

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

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, Hydrochlorothiaz

When I was in Medical school in the early 80s only one in 2,500 children had Autism. It’s a lot more than that now. Why? Have our genes mutated? Are we better at diagnosing the problem? The answer is