Words: Dr Loredana ORTIZ Multiple sclerosis [MS] is a debilitating disease. There are no quick answers for the malady, albeit nature knows best to ease the disorder — gently and also effectively. You gotcha it right — nutritional medicine is often handy to speeding up recovery time for MS patients. First things first. There’s a
Words: Dr Ryan N HARRISON One of the best things about exercising regularly is that it literally helps to ‘grow’ a younger body, which is simply a body that has regenerated its cells more recently. When exercised routinely, the body must regenerate its cells more quickly than when idle. Depending on our activity level, 6-8
Words: Dr Loredana ORTIZ Picture this. Even if you are eating an ideal diet and have access to the best, freshest organic produce, including legumes and whole grains on the living planet, there are still some nutrients that are essential to you that you are going to have a hard time getting. As we age,
Words: Dr Loredana ORTIZ Good, balanced nutrition awareness is an important part of any good anti-aging programme. Good nutrition gives your body and mind the nutrients they require; they also give you adequate energy to perform your much-needed daily exercise. It will help your supplements work better since there are certain supplements that are fat
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 Ryan N HARRISON When most people think of the term ‘health,’ they relate it to how well they are feeling, whether or not they are sick, or how quickly they recover from the bugs that get passed around between friends, family, and co-workers. Each of these aspects is connected, of course, to the
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 The sun bathes the world in golden warmth, the flowers bloom in vibrant reds and violets, the birds sing a sweet song — and, you’re too busy sneezing and rubbing your itchy eyes instead of enjoying nature. Sounds familiar? This is the ‘rote’ of spring for over 20 million Americans and
Words: Dr Ryan N HARRISON A ‘syndrome’ is a pattern, or collection, of symptoms that together indicates a disease. You don’t actually ‘catch’ a syndrome like you do a virus. Rather, the word ‘syndrome’ is used to describe a concurrence of symptoms that act as hallmarks for a disease, or health condition. Metabolic syndrome —
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 over forty years of research on this ‘designer fat,’ we’ve found out
