From UC Santa Barbara – Andrea Estrada Reviewed by Node Smith, ND Two indigenous populations offer a glimpse into how diet — and western eating habits — impact health and wellbeing From the [...]

Tolle Totum Serena Goldstein, ND We are now in a day and age where many of our concerns, such as heart disease, obesity, cancer, and autoimmune conditions, are due to a variety of causes and [...]

Node Smith, ND Aged Garlic Extract to Decrease Painful Inflammation and Lower Cholesterol Levels A recent study looked at the ability of aged garlic extract to decrease painful inflammation as [...]

Node Smith, ND Camelina for Cholesterol An interesting article on Camelina oil was recently published. The article found that use of Camelina oil reduced overall cholesterol including LDL [...]

A recent study from the Penn State College of medicine shows that statins may actually contribute to onset and progression of Parkinson’s disease in people who are susceptible to the disease.1 [...]

Jeremy Mikolai, ND These guidelines have been widely criticized, as much or more for what they did not say as for the recommendations that were made. The 2013 ACC/AHA guidelines are [...]

Elaine Lewis, hbsc, ND Monique Aucoin, bmsc, ND Kieran Cooley, bsc, ND The medical assessment and diagnosis of dyslipidemia involves stratifying results from a standard fasting lipid panel with [...]

Dicken Weatherby, ND and Donald R. Yance, MH, CN The FDA just turned down a large pharmaceutical company’s application to make one of the first statin drugs available without a prescription. The [...]

Jacob Schor, ND We usually think of curcumin in terms of cancer treatment, yet it may play an equally valuable role in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Curcumin is the [...]

Dicken Weatherby, ND Heart disease is still the No. 1 killer of men and women in the U.S. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2005, 25.6 million “non-institutionalized” [...]