Nutritional Counseling & Meal Planning

Well, it depends. If you’re under thirty, your digestive symptoms of bloating, low level nausea, abdominal cramping, and general intestinal “discomfort” are most likely a reflection of what you’ve been eating and how you eat it. Although our nutritionist, Olivia Darrow, is anything but Jewish, she might, if she heard what you regard as “food” […]

It’s not enough that every single day’s headline has something stressful: ICE shootings; Greenland/Venezuela/Ukraine; Feds withholding aid for food and medicine; but now both COVID and flu are on the rise. January and February are the big flu months and what’s left of the DOGE decimated CDC is warning that another pandemic of a new […]

I’ve written in the past about telomeres, a word derived from the Greek telos (end) and mere (part). Telomeres are essential components of every living cell and affect how we age. They are the caps at the end of each strand of our chromosomal chains of DNA, protecting the chromosome much like the plastic tip […]

Part one, provided information you probably suspected all along. The article, “Takeaway Food Consumption and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors” appeared in Medical News Today. The piece was accompanied by a photo of what could have been a condo doorman handing a couple of boxes of succulent broiled salmon and grilled spinach delivered from an upscale restaurant, […]

This all started with a postcard I received from Northwestern, “Do You Have Difficulty Walking?”, beckoning me to enter the FIRST research study. This is not “first,” like “first, second,” but an acronym (not mentioned on the card) for quite a mouthful: Fisetin to Reduce Senescence and Mobility Impairment in Peripheral Artery Disease. “Fisetin?”, I […]