Vitamins to Help Avoid or Recover from a Virus
Ever since Linus Pauling first discovered how vitamin C works with the human body’s immune system over 100 years ago, we have been learning more and more about how the human body functions and the…
How Can I Stay Healthy This Winter?
Reader question: I have had one flu shot as an adult, and got the flu twice that year. I work at a college, and am exposed to hundreds of (sick, young) people 5 days a…
Nutrition and Diet Not Taught in Medical School
Doctors need to be learning more about diet and nutrition in medical school, says a study out of Griffith University in Australia and published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal. Globally, 11 million deaths annually…
Why Am I Fat? Too Many Processed Foods
It has been proven: eating processed foods make you fat! People eating ultra-processed foods eat more calories and gain more weight than when they eat a minimally processed diet. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
Is Diet Involved In Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)?
Hell yes! YES, what we eat directly affects how our gut reacts and how our bowels perform. How could it not? It always blows my mind that doctors ignore diet when treating issues of the…