Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN It may seem incredible that you can safely boost mental clarity by consuming a little-known nutrient with a long-winded moniker. Phosphatidyl serine [PS] has rapidly been gaining notice and credibility over the past 30 years. More clinical trials have been run on PS than on any other nutrient targeting the brain.

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN I have, as a practicing physician, increasingly found that the role of nutrition and nutritional supplementation is a key factor in creating health and preventing disease. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, reported a study performed at the Centre for Metabolic Disease and Atherosclerosis, in Italy, that the worldwide incidence of

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Herbalist James Karon advised customers on the uses and benefits of plants and herbs, working out of his Greenwich Village brownstone and growing his products in his own backyard. James was both an avowed plant lover and a vegetarian, and his nutritional know-how kept him looking much younger than his sixty-seven

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN A key characteristic of healthy bacteria is their ability to antagonise unhealthy, or pathogenic, bacteria. Pathogenic organisms are dangerous because they either cause infection or release harmful substances as a by-product of their natural digestive processes. Probiotics work in a variety of ways to keep unhealthy bacteria in check. Some crowd

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Joe Delantoni was a sixty-five-year-old retired pilot. Although his faithful fighter jet was no longer soaring, his cholesterol levels were. He was recently diagnosed with heart disease. He was experiencing chronic chest pain, excessive hair loss, hyperthyroidism, and insomnia. His cholesterol wasn’t the only risk factor flying high: his triglycerides, homocysteine

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN No one will probably know exactly what hit Paul Moore so hard, including the loss of the use of his hands. But, his recovery was so complete that one ought to believe that a comprehensive nutritional approach worked in his favour.  The story of Paul Moore is one of the strangest

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN People the world over love the smell and taste of licorice: the root itself was found buried with King Tut in his tomb and was used as a medicine in ancient Egypt. In China circa 3,000 BC, licorice was included in religious ceremonies. For many of us, black licorice whips and

Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Although vaginal yeast infections are incredibly common in women, they often aren’t viewed as a serious health threat. When coupled with stress and job concerns, and a generally discontented life, as they were for twenty-eight-year-old Alison Berlitz, however, they can be a source of intense aggravation. Alison had been riddled with

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 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