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COLOSTRUM: IS IT WORTH ADDING YET ANOTHER SUPPLEMENT? 

The word keeps popping up in emails from patients, and I’m seeing it more and more on their smoothie “lists”. Then, when I saw an article in the Washington Post about colostrum, I thought I’d better write about it myself.  Colostrum was your first taste of food when you were born, the first milk produced […]

CASE STUDY: ECZEMA FROM HELL

Tracy had wisely trimmed her fingernails to avoid injuring her own skin, but as she sat in my office she continuously rubbed one part of her body or another with the ball of her thumb in order to relieve the itching. Dermatologists sometimes refer to this as, “The itch that rashes, rather than the rash […]

SUPPLEMENTS I TAKE. “REALLY? EVERY DAY?!” ACTUALLY, MOST OF THEM TWICE A DAY.

Every two or three years, I list the supplements that I myself have been taking for just about twenty years or so, adding or subtracting one or two based on some new research findings. I also mention just why I take them. For example, after decades of fish oil capsules, I’ve pretty much dropped these when […]