Maternal Nutrition and the Microbiome – Part I This was a tricky topic to drill down into one article – so I split it into two. Bear with me on this topic as it is so import… Read More

Literature Review 1) “Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common mental behavioral disorder in children. Alterations in gut microbiota composition are associated with… Read More

Literature Review 1) What has happened in the realm of cancer incidence over the last decade? As one would expect, it is climbing especially for breast cancer and GI cancers….studies… Read More

Literature Review this Week 1) From Cell Host and Microbe – “The microbiomes of cesarean-born infants differ from vaginally delivered infants and are associated with increased di… Read More

Here is a short written version of the fructose story in tandem with the podcast with Dr. Rick Johnson where we go deep. We are going to discuss the survival switch and fructose metabolism i… Read More

Asthma and Nutrition Part V Case presentation: DM is a 12 yo caucasian male who presented to integrative pediatric clinic for the first time at age 8 years with the chief complaint of modera… Read More

Asthma, Allergies and Nutrition Part IV – The Story – Micronutrients Zinc is a mineral involved in over 100 enzymatic reactions in the body! It is necessary in adequate leve… Read More

Asthma, Allergies and Nutrition – The Story Part III – THE NUTRITION STUDIES – THE TO DO There is good quality data on specific parts of a diet or nutritional pla… Read More

THE NUTRITIONAL STUDIES We know that the foods that we consume affect our intestinal microbiome, our immune system, our metabolism and therefore have a significant effect on inflammation. Is… Read More

Asthma, Allergies and Nutrition – The Story Here is a long form look at asthma and allergies as I am preparing a lecture on asthma and allergies for a conference in October. I will bre… Read More

Literature Review: 1) Is loneliness tied to an increase in death risk? A new study in Nature says yes to a degree of the pooled effect size of 1.32 for all cause mortality. (Wang et. al. 202… Read More

Let us head back to the headwaters of HDL biology to find some more answers. If you did not read the original HDL piece or remember the basics of HDL biology, go back to Newsletter V13… Read More

This week we talk all about sweat and heat liberation. Sweating is a very important tool that the human body and most mammals use to eliminate unwanted stuff. In this case, the body primaril… Read More

Breastfeeding Versus Formula Science versus Opinion I read with somewhat of a frustrated feeling a recent article in Scientific American entitled: It’s Okay Not to Breastfeed by Kavin… Read More

Literature Review: This week we discuss articles about the Inhalation of polyamides or nylon in microsizes, masking and effectiveness, cannabis use in youth and covid 19 versus influenz… Read More

Literature review this week: Plastics in the blood, dogs can sniff Covid, mental health and exercise, CT scans and brain cancer risk, aging and the microbiome. Also, a piece on mothers and t… Read More

This week is a literature review where we look at the topics of school mental health struggles, safetyism, crispr therapy, immune skin cell programming and rapid weight gain in infants. Part… Read More

Literature Review – this week we look at topics like: Autism is linked to heart disease!; Machine learning algorithms are going to help us diagnose autism spectrum disorders… Read More

Cholesterol VII- Follow up It is imperative that all readers know that any time you go against conventional wisdom, you run the risk of negative reactions from providers of care that disagre… Read More

Cholesterol Part V – What to do? I hope that over the last four weeks I have sufficiently laid the case for heart disease as a complex disorder that is far from just a cholesterol… Read More

Cholesterol Lipid Hypothesis Part III So far, I have put forth some hypotheses that are controversial and raise questions about the American College of Cardiology guidelines. This is fine wi… Read More

This week begins the cholesterol/lipid discussion as it relates to cardiovascular disease. We look at alternative ideas for elevated lipid levels in humans and why this might be so. History… Read More

Coronavirus Update 81 plus other stuff We continue to have a highly infectious Omicron endemic national state with new strain XBB.1.5 accounting for 75% of our cases now with absolutely no s… Read More

This week we look at the quick hits related to Covid science. This information stream is fading, however, I am still finding some important science worth sharing in the literature. We also l… Read More

  Covid update #79 – This week we do a literature review looking at Covid and the post illness effects on lipid metabolism, chemical clearance and general long term health. We loo… Read More

Food in Infants What do we know? “Humans are the only mammals who feed our young special complementary foods before weaning and we are the only primates that wean our young before they… Read More

Coronavirus Update 76 plus other stuff The work around Covid research is fading for me. This is now mostly a highly contagious upper respiratory infection for most. The morbidity has faded t… Read More

This week we take a look at: Drug Induced Micronutrient Loss, Soleus Push Ups and Miror Neurons To function at the highest and most optimal state requires providing our human engine wit… Read More

Medication errors are a major risk for morbidity and mortality nationally. The number affected skyrockets into the hundreds of thousands when we look at the countless side effects that do no… Read More

Coronavirus Update #71 A look at the next pandemic From a recent article, we see a 10 point series of mitigation measures for a future pandemic based on rational thought: “A more reali… Read More

Coronavirus Update 69. Quick Hits and other musings – 1) In the interview with Dr. Offit there were a few big take aways: Boosters for non risk based teen and young adults are unlikely… Read More

This is Bone Health week. As soon as you are conceived, the process of growing new bone begins in the map of DNA. The first bone cells are noted at the sixth week post conception. This proce… Read More