Infant Formula: How and Why to Make Your Own
Infant formula is 98% ultra-processed oil, sugar, and protein powder. Homemade infant formula can help a child thrive in many of the same ways as breast fed babies.
What is the Best Non Dairy Milk?
Comparing the nutritional value of almond, coconut, oat, rice and soy milk to cow's milk reveals a clear winner in the plant-based milk-alternative category. But is milk really causing your problems?
Which Covid Vaccine is Best?
Unrelenting brain fog. Disabling body aches for weeks after the fevers have cleared. Recurring daily headaches that make it hard to concentrate. Vertigo and tinnitus that you've never had before. If you're young, healthy, eat well, and—especially important—have been avoiding vegetable oils, COVID is fairly mild. But when it's not mild, it can hit hard.
What to Know About the Flu and Vaccine in 2020
The company I work for, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, takes employee health seriously. We also take personal liberties very seriously and have never required employees to get flu shots. I was asked to review the pros and cons of flu shots and present this information to the ABC Family.
Tonic Water for Coronavirus Prevention !?
I'm definitely NOT saying tonic water works to prevent coronavirus! Here's why I think it might do more than nothing.
Migraine Headache Diet Treatments that Work: Cut Your PUFA Consumption
Today's post will review two very interesting articles using very different sounding but actually similar strategies to improve migraine pain, low-fat vegan, versus targeted omega-3/omega-6 rebalancing
Is Walking Safe with Plantar Fasciitis?
When active people get sore feet, the diagnosis is often plantar fasciitis and the prescription is often rest. This post describes how, if you have plantar fasciitis and are an active person, staying active might be more therapeutic than staying entirely off your feet.
Statisticians Can Easily Mislead Doctors About Statin (or any) Drug Safety
Doctors don't go to medical school to become expert at interpreting statistics. Yet most of the articles that tell us how safe drugs might be rely on complex statistical analyses that go far beyond what I learned in my one credit course on Statistics for Medical Practitioners.
Are eggs healthy or not?
There's never been any credible evidence to support the idea that eating eggs is generally unhealthy. In fact, some evidence supports the opposite; that egg-eaters have lower cholesterol than non egg-eaters. I myself was surprised that it had been studied at all, because the results were not widely reported.
Cholesterol Is Good, The American Heart Association is Bad
Are you watching your cholesterol? Then you might be interested to read this story, describing the American Heart Association’s role in creating mass cholesterol-phobia, including evidence that they actively suppressed information that would have changed the course of medical history.
Why does my stomach hurt? It could be functional constipation
THE MOST common cause of all tummy pain and belly aches that I see in busy people is not food allergies, gluten intolerance or even irritable bowel. It's called functional constipation.
