by Glenn S. Rothfeld MD

Increase raw and lightly cooked foods, while decreasing processed foods.
Eat only when in a relaxed and conscious state.
Use digestive enzymes.
Take a probiotic supplement.

In my twenty-five years of practice, I’ve become more and more aware of the role that digestion plays in our physiology. I’m trained in both Western and Chinese medicine, [...]

By Glenn S. Rothfeld, MD 
The question of estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) is hotly debated among women nearing menopause, their physicians, and the press. Many complex issues make this debate a lively one, but osteoporosis is perhaps the most complex and important one. And for good reason. Osteoporosis affects over 20 million Americans, and is expected [...]

Alternative View: Patterns of Disharmony
By Glenn S. Rothfeld, MD
According to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, millions of patients are turning to so-called Alternative Medicine to treat their conditions, many times without discussing their plans with their primary physician. The slowness with which orthodox medicine has acknowledged the existence of Chronic [...]

By Glenn S. Rothfeld, MD
In the alphabet soup of vitamins, one of the main players has gotten the short end of the tick for a long time.   Almost all of the vitamins have varied and sexy stories around them.  Vitamin A has two forms, vitamin A itself and “pro-vitamin A”, which we call carotene (beta [...]

Apitherapy, the medicinal use of honey bee products, has been practiced since ancient times. In the modern world honey bee venom has found wide uses in treating arthritis and other inflammatory and degenerative diseases. The world scientific literature contains more than 1500 articles on bee venom. The French and Russian equivalents of the N.I.H. have [...]