The New York Times ran a piece yesterday about something that’s been talked about for years: can taking vitamins actually cause sleep problems? Of course, there’s no easy answer to this. Consider Vitamin B6, for example. On the one hand, B6 is widely thought to cause vivid dreaming; I often suspect B6 deficiency in patients who report [...]

As the population lives longer, bone fractures become more important. Even microfractures in the spine from collapsed vertebrae can cause pain and disability, while hip fractures can be life-threatening to an older person. On the positive side, people have become more tuned into their calcium intake as a result; but the focus on bone fracture [...]

This year’s recent Functional Medicine conference was illuminating and energizing, as always. One study utterly blew me away, involving a little animal called the Agouti mouse. This particular mouse is often used in research because it is genetically overweight, making it naturally more susceptible to diabetes, cancer, and a shorter lifespan than its mouse relatives.
This [...]

There’s nothing new about teenagers doing anything they can to stay up all night and get their work done (remember No-Doz?). What’s so worrisome now, though, are the reports surfacing about the huge surge in teen abuse of ADHD medications, with sometimes fatal results. Of course, lots of kids take prescription drugs just to get high, and [...]

The latest study on kids and Vitamin D is truly astonishing, claiming millions of children between the ages of 1 and 21 exhibit dangerously low levels, potentially increasing their risk of heart disease, bone problems, diabetes, and other illnesses. Of course, we all know kids have too many reasons to stay indoors (I would have [...]