What’s with all the Pumpkin Spice?
If you’ve been to any grocery store lately, odds are you’ve been bombarded by pumpkin spice flavored foods. Popularized mostly by Starbuck’s Pumpkin Spice Latte, there’s no avoiding this Fall fad. It has gotten so prevalent that in the last couple of weeks I’ve seen pumpkin spice hummus, energy drinks, beef jerky, pasta sauce, liquor, air […]
The Importance of Functional Blood Chemistry
It never ceases to amaze me how under-used labs are in the current healthcare system. Physicians have extensive diagnostic tools available to them that can greatly improve patient outcomes, yet they are rarely used. For example, “routine bloodwork” from an HMO typically includes 7 chemistry markers and a lipid panel. Your PPO provider may include […]
Vitamin D: How Much is Enough?
The gap between current research and clinical practice is well illustrated with the importance of Vitamin D. Vitamin D is crucial in every disease from inhibiting cancer and heart diseases to mental disease, recurrent infections, tooth loss, osteoporosis, narcolepsy and auto-immune disease. In fact, there are more receptors for Vitamin D in the body than for anything else except […]