Low Omega-6 to Omega-3 Ratio May Keep Knee Arthritis Pain in Check
I religiously take high-dose, high-quality fish oil on a twice-a-day basis. If I stop, it’s because I’m out, and it takes a few days, but I begin to feel like every other 50-some-year-old guy who...
View ArticleI’m Healthy, So Sugar Won’t Hurt Me, Right?
While everyone has been taught that fat is bad, this was wrong. Turns out that the fat causes heart disease thing was a myth. The real public enemy has always been sugar. Now a new study shows just...
View ArticleCan a Ketogenic Diet Help Us Live 10 Years Longer?
We’ve all been programmed by the media and academia to believe that eating a high-fat diet is bad. We still have countless jokes scattered throughout pop culture about how someone eating bacon is...
View ArticleOne Key to Muscle Strength as You Age: Eat Protein at Every Meal
Did you ever wonder why you rarely see a really old bodybuilder? That’s because we all lose muscle as we age. Is there a simple way to slow this decline? According to one new study, it may be as...
View ArticleCould an Obscure Compound in Olives Prevent Diabetes?
Even since the Mediterranean diet came on the scene in the 80s, there’s been a fascination with olive oil. It’s long been suspected that something in olives may be one of the reasons that the diet...
View ArticleWant Healthy Gut Bacteria? Eat More Walnuts!
The bacteria in your stomach and bowels are a big deal that make the news almost daily. This is called your microbiome, and its status can impact your weight and health. A new study now suggests that...
View ArticleFiber and Joint Pain? Keep Eating Those Wheaties!
Mother always said to eat your Wheaties, and a new study on knee pain may give us some insight into the relationship between fiber and joint pain. The answer seems to be that fiber can decrease body...
View ArticleChondroitin Beats Celebrex Again for Helping Arthritis
Let’s face it, supplements piss off academics. Why? They’re naturally occurring substances that allow patients to remedy their own problems without asking for permission from the gods of academia....
View ArticleDemonizing Butter: New Research Shows No Connection to Heart Disease
No other food has been as vilified as butter. I grew up in a world where the government told us that tasty and creamy butter was evil, a cause of heart disease that was right up there with cigarette...
View ArticleOverweight with Knee Pain? Will Losing Weight Help Your Knees?
If you’re overweight with knee pain, you ask a lot of your knees. It doesn’t take a physics major to understand that the more weight our knees have to carry, the more physical stress our knees must...
View ArticleBeer Drinkers at Greater Risk for Knee and Hip Arthritis
Barley, hops, and yeast—these are the main ingredients that are processed to create that perfect bottle of beer, but there’s one problem: when you take a drink of beer, you’re basically taking a drink...
View ArticleChronic Inflammation and Back Pain: New Research May Help You Calm the Fire
A new study gives great insight into inflammation and back pain, and its startling findings may help you manage chronic back pain. Chronic inflammation in the whole body is an oft-ignored problem...
View ArticleCreating Stem Cell Supplements: Is the Cheap Stuff for Real?
Our entry into developing a stem cell supplement, much like everything else we do, was born of frustration. I would get asked frequently, which supplements our patients should take to help support...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Causes of Cartilage Loss
The Top Ten Causes of Cartilage Loss And What YOU Can Do to Prevent It Our patients often ask what they can do to help their cartilage. Understanding why we lose cartilage in the first place is...
View ArticleThe Impact of NSAID Risks to Society may be Huge…
Have you ever thought about the implications NSAID risks pose to society? What is an NSAID? The Motrin, Advil, Aleve, Ibuprofen, Naprosyn you can buy at the drug store and most Americans eat like...
View ArticleCyplexinol Review 2: More of the BMP Shuffle…
Last year I was contacted by a marketing agent on Twitter about the “research” supporting a new supplement called Cyplexinol. When I dug into this supplement, what I found was very disturbing....
View ArticleFish Oil Reduces Hardening of the Arteries in New Study
Fish Oil has been a favorite of the health food industry for so long that not only can you buy it in every drug store, but you can get it at every grocery store, and superstore. And for good reason,...
View ArticleFDA Finally Gearing Up to Give Trans Fats the Boot!
According to news from the FDA, it looks like Trans Fats are finally going to get the boot! Famous poet, author and novelist Victor Hugo once said, ” There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose...
View ArticleMore Research Confirms Statin Drugs Cause Diabetes!
The pharma-university industrial complex has had a rough few years when it comes to fat and cholesterol. After they and Madison avenue got every American paranoid that total cholesterol was an...
View ArticleBacteria Found in Sewage Predicts Obesity in Cities?
There’s been a lot of attention paid recently to the gut microbiome, a collection of friendly bacteria that live in your digestive tract. Now a new study has shown that we can study this in large...
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