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 […]
Link Found Between Obesity and Dementia
Could there be a link between your weight and an increased risk of dementia? It is well known that central obesity increases ones risk of developing various diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, coronary heart disease and stroke. We know that visceral fat is more metabolically active and produces more inflammation than subcutaneous fat, so […]