The Annals of Internal Medicine, a well-respected medical journal, recently published an editorial titled “Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements.” The piece was then widely disseminated to the news media both home and

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Vitamin D has gotten unending amounts of press lately. It’s been touted for a whole number of health conditions, including cancer, immune conditions, heart disease, and diabetes. That said, research into the therapeutic effects of vitamin D supplementa

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Recently, the New York Times reported on an ongoing issue in the realm of herbal supplements. A group of Canadian researchers purchased a few dozen bottles of commercially available herbal supplements, and, using a fairly high-tech method for asse

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Over the past several years, there’s been a public argument happening between science and religion on a variety of points. As a physician, I take a non-partisan stance in this debate, and simply want to know what works so that I can best help my pati

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The research abstract below illustrates that Colostrum, the immune boosting first milk from a cow that has just given birth, was more effective than the flu vaccine in preventing influenza infection.  While this wasn’t done for the H1N1 swine flu strain, I believe colostrum is safe and effective.  I highly recommend adding it to your

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