October 2, 2023 According to current statistics, one in every 10 people will have Alzheimer’s dementia by the time they are 65 years old. That risk will then double every five years. Other sobering statistics
August 29, 2023 Until recently, melatonin has been thought of primarily as the “sleep hormone.” The long held belief in scientific research has been that our pineal glands, in response to the light/dark cycle, produced
August 8, 2023 “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” -Bishop Desmond Tutu In 1900,
July 7, 2023 The gut microbiome orchestrates immunity, human metabolism, and gene expression: “The hundred trillion bacteria in the body of an adult human contain about four million distinct bacterial genes, with more than 95%
June 7, 2023 “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today” — Chinese proverb Diabetic retinopathy represents a leading cause of vision loss globally, and the
April 26, 2023 Poor diet is the leading cause of mortality in the United States, causing more than half a million deaths per year.1 In a 2019 article in The New York Times, “Our Food
April 11, 2023 Doctors are taught that there are two types of inflammation, acute and chronic. Acute inflammation is characterized by short duration and represents the body’s healing response to a sudden insult. Chronic inflammation
April 11, 2023 Most nutrients act on hundreds of pathways and enzyme systems, whereas most prescription drugs act on just one pathway. In this way, nutrients function as a symphony, but deficiencies are still very
April 11, 2023 Nutrition science is rapidly evolving, and practitioners and patients are becoming more mindful of the science of preventing disease rather than just treating it. Studies of age-related macular degeneration have shown the
