The CDC stated recently that women are at an all-time high for heart disease, cardiovascular disease or CVD, and that men were actually on par or lowering their relative risks for CVD. This might be associated with...

Intravenous (IV) therapy, also known as “Myer’s Cocktails,” has been used for decades, but for many of us, we need to go back to the basics and understand what this is and how it can help. IV...

By design, everything our body does has a purpose. So, why would it produce so much cholesterol if it were bad? What is Cholesterol? While many believe cholesterol to be a bad thing, or the result of...

Dietary factors and therapeutic lifestyle changes have no side effects. They should be considered the first line of defense in preventive cardiology. . . . Rather than . . . targeting cholesterol numbers alone, doctors owe it...

In the “old” days LDL was considered “bad” cholesterol . . . . HDL, on the other hand, was traditionally believed to be “good” cholesterol . . . The problem is, we now know that there are...

There is an old saying: “We don’t know what we don’t know.” This phrase may be far more true than people know. Medicine today has descended into a world of symptom treatments and disease management with far...

As a seasoned natural medicine practitioner, I have observed over the years the baby boomer population and how they age. There is an angst that comes from experiencing our own mortality that grows with each decade of...

Curcumin has a surprisingly wide range of beneficial properties, including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic activity. . . . is remarkably non-toxic, … exhibits great promise as a therapeutic agent, and is currently in human clinical trials for...

  There is nothing short of an epidemic silently sweeping the United States. According to the American Medical Association, 34% (more than one in three) adults now fits the criteria for the condition known as Metabolic Syndrome,...

Curcumin has been shown to exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer activities and thus has a potential against various malignant diseases, diabetes, allergies, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, and other chronic illnesses. – Advances in Experimental Medicine...

There are many different kinds of fats: saturated, polyunsaturated, and monounsaturated; and our body needs a mixture of healthy fatty acids in the diet in a harmonious balance of 30% saturated, 10% polyunsaturated, and 60% monounsaturated. One...