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Nutritional Therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

We are honored to present Dr. Leo Galland’s original video series “Nutritional Therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease” (I.B.D.). Dr. Galland gave this lecture at the Jill Roberts Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell University Medical School on March 5, 2013. This eight part video series was created by a grant from the Foundation for Integrated Medicine and is being hosted by Pill Advised.

In Chapter 1 of the series Dr. Leo Galland discusses how nutritional deficiencies are common in people with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, interfering with mechanisms of healing and contributing to complications of inflammatory bowel disease.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and UCLA doctors say it’s a great time to take a look at the health of your colon. Continue reading »

Gut bacteria may regulate blood pressure

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Yale University have discovered that a specialized receptor, normally found in the nose, is also in blood vessels throughout the body.

Superbugs May Have A Soft Spot

The overuse of antibiotics has created strains of bacteria resistant to medication, making the diseases they cause difficult to treat, or even deadly.

But now a research team at the University of Rochester has found a weakness in one superbug.

Upcoming Dr. Galland Lecture in New York City

Leo Galland MD, FACP, FACN

Pill Advised founder Leo Galland MD, FACP, FACN will lecture on “Nutritional Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease” at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Galland is internationally recognized as a leader in Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine. An experienced and dynamic speaker, he has lectured throughout the United States and the British Commonwealth, and in Europe.

Stomach Bug May Help Control Diabetes

A stomach bacterium believed to cause health problems such as gastritis, ulcers, and gastric cancer may play a dual role by balancing the stomach’s ecosystem and controlling body weight and glucose tolerance, according to research from Virginia Tech.