There are times that I think that maybe I’m off base when it comes to my dislike for dairy products and my recommendation to avoid it. After all, the recommendation to have at least 3 servings of dairy daily is firmly entrenched in just about every public health recommendation since, well like…forever. And the commercials […]
Without dredging up horrid memories of high school, do you remember that our cells are made of a lipid bilayer? That means that the outside of our cells are formed of two layers of fats sandwiched together. For cells to function properly, a message needs to pass through this sandwich layer. It works out that […]
Ok..we may be jumping the gun because this is a rat study (here is a study PETA can’t complain about!). But hey…if it turns out to not work in humans are you really going to go stamping angrily to the authors and complain? Despite the old adage about losing brain cells in college, our brains really do […]
I’m not sure where along the process caffeine got such a bad rap. I continue to see suggestions to avoid caffeinated products like coffee and tea. I can understand if someone has adrenal fatigue and needs an IV directly from the coffee pot just to get started in the AM, but other than that the […]
There are some treatment approaches that sound good at the onset; find a neurotransmitter that helps to elevate mood and just synthetically increase the level of the neurotransmitter with a drug. Conduct a few biased trials with the deck stacked in favor of a benefit and start marketing the heck out of the drug. Prosac was […]
