I am an interventional cardiologist and admit to placing thousands and thousands of stents in heart arteries. But results from a study—called the ORBITA trial—made headlines (like this one: “‘Unbelievable’:…
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Eat your vegetables and fruits, get seven to nine hours of sleep, don’t smoke, walk 30 minutes a day, stand more, stress less, be more mindful. It can be quite…
Odds are you’ve heard about fasting. Defined as “abstinence from eating,” the potential medical benefits have increasingly been substantiated in animal and medical research projects and now extend to boosting…
The rise in obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, a dropping lifespan in the United States, and a hunger for an optimal healthspan free of chronic diseases should constantly prompt the…
You take your aunt to the doctor and after asking a series of questions and completing the examination, turns to you both and says “in view of the fact that…
The term “idiopathic” derives from the Greek as “one’s own suffering” is used liberally in conventional medicine to refer to disease of unknown cause. The clinical model in integrative medicine…
Any debate about the role of controlling abnormal lipid levels in patients at high risk for or with known coronary or vascular disease was resolved when exhaustive analyses on the…
How much can change in a year. It was just a year ago, on June 15, 2017, that a Presidential Advisory from the American Heart Association was published on the…
Most people have heard of the famous long term study of over 6,000 residents of Framingham, Massachusetts that began in the late 1940s and continues to this day. After President…
I recently gave a presentation to the largest nutrition support group in the USA, the Plant Based Nutrition Support Group, on the topic of how to evaluate nutrition science. I…