Why would you want to be doped up with a sedative during a colonoscopy? For that matter, why would you want to have a colonoscopy at all? As to the latter, you pretty much don’t have a choice after turning 50. Intestinal tract cancer rates are growing and they are very serious ailments. … Read more
Herbal supplements = snake oil? We’d never have imagined that herbal supplements are filler-fraught frauds but new DNA testing of herbal supplements suggest that we are being taken for having taken herb purity for granted. Like most others, We’ve occasionally used herbal supplements to boost our body’s performance: echinacea, ginseng, green tea and gentian. But … Read more
It’s odd that happiness is so elusive in our busy, responsibility-laden, pressurized world. Odder still that people will pay big $ for books, classes, coaching, therapy and drugs (illegal and OTC) to capture that cagey critter. But’s it’s actually not all as hard as it might seem. Some very smart people have studied … Read more
If your doctor has or, in the future, prescribes statin drugs for you, we urge you to read further. First off, we are not doctors and hold no special expertise in medicine or, more specifically, the use of statins. Recent announcements regarding new guidelines for prescribing statin drugs raises some serious red flags about which … Read more
Diets are like the tide: they inexorably come and they go. Like clothing fashions, diets are a la mode. A recent Google search turned up over 100 different fad diets that are regularly searched. Here’s our quick low-down on the low-fat, l0w-protein, low-carb, low-calorie, low-meat , high-hormone, low-salt, grapefruit/acai/lemon/cabbage/juice/banana/cookie/vinegar, low-glycemic, Hollywood-ized conundrum that Americans face: … Read more