Everybody sneezes. Some sneezes are barely perceptible, others are loud and distinct, and still others come in multiples. Why do we...

Growth in humans and other animals is stimulated by naturally produced growth hormones. In the 1950s, the FDA approved the use of...

Roughly 32 million pounds of antibiotics are given to animals that we then consume each year. It started back in the 1940s, when it...

2019 is right around the corner. Many of us make New Year’s resolutions, and in my practice, the ones I hear the most concern eating...

“Doctor, I feel tired all of the time.” I can’t tell you how frequently I hear those words. This complaint raises so many possible...

Here we go again: We are entering the flu season. What will it be like this year, and why is getting vaccinated so important? Influenza...

Last weekend while making a sandwich, I pulled out the cheese and found a lovely kaleidoscope of colors. Colorful cheese is usually a bad...

You are approaching your favorite restaurant and see a letter grade rating in the window. Should you eat at a restaurant rated B? How...

Recently, a number of my patients have been mentioning to me a commercial they have seen, instructing them to get a blood test for...

When my patients turn 50, I routinely recommend that they have a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer. Not surprisingly, my...

Ginger has long been one of my mother’s favorite foods. Birthday presents that contain it in one form or another are always a hit. In...

How can a diet that pushes butter, red meat and bacon, and eliminates complex carbohydrates like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, be...

Coffee – admit it; you love it. But it seems that every day there is a new study telling us that caffeine is good…or bad for us. Which is...

Are you familiar with moringa, a popular new supplement? The sheer number of sources claiming a very wide range of unbelievable benefits...

I recently saw a patient who suffered from chronic back pain from a herniated disc. He asked me what I thought about O3, or ozone...

Most of us have at least one irrational food dislike, right? Mine is mushrooms. My wife told me to not write about this topic because I...

Summer is here, which means that we’ll be enjoying pools, the ocean, and other opportunities to swim and cool off. This brings exercise...

Summer is here, and with it, even more sun and its ultraviolet radiation. We’ve gotten pretty good at using sunscreen to protect our bare...

The human body is a complex and wonderful thing. As we observe with cars and refrigerators, however, the more complicated something is,...

One of the most difficult, complex, and costly issues of our time is this nation’s opioid epidemic. During 2016, 116 people died every...