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Superfoods with Superpowers

by Dr. Frank Lipman

Lose weight! Boost immunity! Improve your love life!

If there were a pharmaceutical drug that did all three, there’d be a stampede to the pharmacy, but for now, no such pill exists.

Lowering Cholesterol Through Diet

by Dr David Rakel

What are the best ways to lower cholesterol through diet?

Eating or taking the following are the best ways to lower cholesterol through diet: Continue reading »

Vitamin D and Migraine Headaches

by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

Vitamin D deficiency has become a very popular topic in lay and professional literature, and deservedly so.

Vitamin D is important not only for bone health, but for normal functioning of many organs. Its deficiency appears to be much more common than it was previously suspected.

Vitamin D and Multiple Sclerosis

by Dr. David Perlmutter

Current estimates report that about 300,000 Americans have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) with an incredible 10,000 new cases being diagnosed each year.

While there is a small hereditary component, by and large, most cases seem to just happen without an identifiable cause.

What is Cholesterol?

by Dr David Rakel

Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance found in the blood and the cells of the body.

The body gets cholesterol in two ways. Some is made in the liver. The rest comes from eating foods from animals such as egg yolks, meat, and whole-milk dairy products.

Sun Protection Nutrition

by Dr. Jonathan V. Wright

A recent article by Dr. Niva Shapira in the journal Nutrition Reviews lays out the evidence for a Nutritional approach to sun protection in 7 1/2 pages (with an impressive 149 references).

It points directly to the major culprit behind the large majority of skin cancers: poor diet!