Magnesium (Mg) deficiency is a common nutrient deficiency even in a generally healthy cohort of individuals. Cancer patients then have an increased risk of this nutrient deficiency as they are subject ...

“Mary,” a 65-year-old woman, was referred to me for further treatment for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). She had been given the diagnosis of SIBO in 2015 following a lactulose breath ...

In a September article from the Journal of Herbal Medicine, it was concluded that Melissa officinalis has significantly greater success at treating premenstrual syndrome than placebo. In the study, 93 ...

Even when absolute estrogen levels are normal, if the ratio of estrogen to progesterone is high, symptoms of excess estrogen levels can occur. This is quite common in young and middle-aged women, ...

Strive Compounding Pharmacy files a federal antitrust lawsuit alleging Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk suppressed competition and ...

One of the curses which white bread, or robbed bread has inflicted on the people is constipation. A. W. McCann, 1914, p. 680 The farmer, even, is eating white bread, baked in the city—a state of ...

Many children with an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis suffer from severe gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, including pain; in many of them, this may even contribute to or be the root cause of their ...

Primary hypertension (HTN) is one of the most prevalent and preventable diseases facing North America. The disorder is linked to premature mortality, disability and morbidity, often in the form of ...

In 1963 the National Cancer Institute found that extracts of Taxus brevifolia (Pacific yew) bark were active in vitro against cancer cells. A sample was sent to researcher Monroe Wall, PhD, in North ...

Birth control options aren’t great. For women, most options require using hormones that cause common side effects such as weight gain, metabolic disturbances, nausea, and headaches. For men, the ...

A 33-year-old male presented in my office with acute abdominal pain in the epigastric region. He’d had growing digestive discomfort and low-grade pain for months before the onset of acute pain, which ...

The medical relevance of biofilms in human illness is better understood now than ever before. A simple PubMed search using the terms “biofilm” and “human” yields 14 417 publications – an indication of ...