Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Despite the incredible advances modern medicine has made in the last forty years, heart attacks are still the single leading cause of death. Even though we understand the importance of a diet low in saturated fats, and the preventive impact of exercise, most of us know little about magnesium, the one

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN The case of fifty-eight-year-old Peter Francis has to be one of the strangest I’ve seen in my years of practice. Although Peter had suffered from arthritis for a number of years, which is odd at his age, we could find no reason why such joint pain should strike so early in

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Adrienne Austin, a thirty-one-year-old fashion designer, had spent the last decade of her life battling her skin ailments, eczema and seborrhoea. In addition to her chronic itching and rashes, she experienced frequent headaches and sinusitis. Over the years, she’d been on a number of antibiotics to treat a variety of skin

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Steve was the highly paid, highly acclaimed, highly stressed producer of a popular New York TV news programme. This pressure-cooker of a job granted Steve little sleep. He was constantly getting up early to make it to the studio before anyone else, so that he could organise the day’s show and

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN The speed and power of nutritional healing are sometimes astonishing. Blood test results can change in a matter of weeks with the proper diet and supplements. In fact, many nutrients cause changes in the blood within hours — changes that can be measured. In other cases, the healing is slow, but

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Seventy-year-old Bill Richards loved to help others. He owned and operated the largest hardware store in Westchester County, US. He was an active man, the type of guy who’d run over to a neighbour’s house to fix something five minutes after getting the call. His store was fully stocked; if you

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN A strange thing happened in the late 1970s. An extract from hamburger was found to inhibit tumours in mice. In 1987, this extract was identified as conjugated linoleic acid [CLA]. CLA belongs to the omega-6 fatty acid family. After nearly thirty-five years of research on this ‘designer fat,’ we’ve found out

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Fred Reynolds [32] was new to New York from the sunny state of South Carolina, US.  Although he had moved up north for a glitzy job as the photo-editor of a famous men’s magazine, the exciting career move did nothing to incite in him a love for the Big Apple. He

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN As the manager of her family’s raucous Irish pub in midtown Manhattan, twenty-eight-year-old Molly Tracey was as far removed from a pure diet and environment as she could get. Although smoking is strictly prohibited in restaurants, the patrons of O’Shaughnessy’s couldn’t have cared less; to them, a pub wasn’t a pub