Vitamins, Minerals and Other Supplements: What to Take and Why to Take Them

Nutrition, Supplements

We recommend nutritional supplements to all of our patients. Most people are deficient in several basic nutrients, and some are severely deficient. There are also a number of nutrients, such as essential fatty acids found in fish oils, vitamin C and others that the...

VITAMINS, MINERALS, AND OTHER SUPPLEMENTS: WHAT TO TAKE AND WHY TO TAKE THEM

General, Nutrition, Supplements

  By Allan Sosin, MD   We recommend nutritional supplements to all of our patients. Most people are deficient in several basic nutrients, and some are severely deficient. There are also a number of nutrients, such as EFAs found in fish oils, vitamin C and others that...

5 Healthy Alternatives to Energy Drinks

Food, General, Nutrition

Many people reach for a commercial energy drink daily or even several times a day to help avoid an afternoon slump. However, a 16 oz. can of Red Bull contains 52 grams of sugar, about the same amount as 11 Oreo cookies, and more than a 12 oz can of Coca-cola which has...

Eat Your Fruits – It’s Okay

Food, Nutrition

If you had any doubts about the benefits of eating whole fruit, you can put them to rest. A study out of China published in the New England Journal of Medicine (April 7, 2016, pp 1332-1343) reveals that a higher level of fruit consumption led to lower blood pressure...

Stop Blood Clots With Lumbrokinase (Boluoke)

Nutrition

Blood clots cause heart attacks, strokes, phlebitis, blockage of lung arteries, often leading to severe illness or sudden death. Persons who spend hours in sitting positions, such as in plane flights or long distance driving, are especially susceptible to blood clots...

The Benefits of Vitamin C in Treating Infection

Nutrition

A new study* validates the powerful effect of intravenous vitamin C in recovery from infection. Dr. Fowler described his study in the October 2015 issue of the Townsend Letter, the major alternative medicine journal. Twenty-four patients, all critically ill with...