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Super D to the Rescue. A Vitamin or Superhero?

No, Super D is not the newest rap artist, Super D is vitamin D and it’s one of the hottest topics in medicine right now.  This plain ol’ vitamin by day has been turned into a superhero overnight.  In fact it has been given a promotion from “vitamin” to “pro-hormone.”  Vitamins are great and they work as co-enzymes in hundreds of biochemical reactions in our body but a hormone actually... [Read more]

Confessions of a Carnivore

I’m not that bright. But I am curious, and it is my curiosity that leads me to new discoveries. We live in the “information age” where the amount of literature, publications and raw information doubles every 18 months. As information grows, the rules change, and so we must be open to change. In the past I have preached that all you had to do was expose your skin to the sun for 15 minutes a... [Read more]

The Cholesterol Deception

 To the 13 million of you out there that are already on a statin drug to lower cholesterol, may I have your attention?  The rest of you may want to pay attention as well. Why are 13 million of our friends and neighbors all taking a drug that may or may not be helping them? In case you haven’t heard, there is a big debate over these drugs and it has spilled out of the medical journals and onto your... [Read more]

Why Pinocchio Must Never Work for the Dairy Association

Got milk?  Short, sweet, and to the point.  Now that’s the kind of slick advertisement I would expect from an industry that spends in excess of $165 million dollars a year on marketing. I am not here today to discuss all the known problems with milk. I am not going to discuss the “pus” issue (1.5 million pus cells in every teaspoon of milk). I will not be exploring the proven cancer link between... [Read more]