Posts Tagged ‘nutrition’
Nutrigenomics: Food as Precision Medicine
Imagine a world where you don’t need to count calories or obsess over food. Imagine a world where you’re not caught between retreating to the couch or spending hours at…
Read MoreHow Oxalates Affect Your Gut, Urinary Tract, and Risk of Autoimmune Conditions
In personalized lifestyle medicine, sometimes one person’s superfood is another person’s poison. Such is the case with oxalates, which are found in high concentrations in many presumed health foods. Once…
Read MoreWhy You Can't Just Ditch Sugar
It’s the middle of the afternoon and you’ve got a sugar craving. What’s so bad about a little indulgence? You’re working hard. You deserve a treat. Before you look in…
Read MoreHow My Great-Grandmother Influenced My Functional Medicine Practice
My great-grandmother embodied healthy living. She was a whole foodist and yoga practitioner—way before these things were trendy. When she visited us, she came armed not with candies and gum…
Read MoreHormone Questions? Ask Your Doctor These 6 Things
In a world where doctor visits are usually too short and overly expensive, there’s nothing more empowering than being in charge of your own health. If you read my blog…
Read MoreThe 7-Day Allergy Makeover – Dr. Sara’s Book Club #14
Allergies rank high on the health misery scale. They affect about 50 million people in the United States. Even mild allergy symptoms can bring about fatigue, congestion, bloating and brain fog.…
Read MoreNutrition Advice From a Phone App: Does It Really Work?
Cook? Between the job, the kids, and everyone’s social calendars, who has time to cook anymore? I hear the same lament all the time from busy parents. Who has time…
Read MoreWhat is Personalized Medicine? A New Way Of Looking at Health Care
Greetings to you—the women, the men, the health warriors and advocates—who follow my good friend and colleague, Sara Gottfried, MD. I am Dr. Jeff Bland and there is a very…
Read MoreHow a Science-Based Detox Supports Weight Loss + Where to Get One
A good detox should be focused on making you healthier, not frightening your body into thinking you’re going into famine mode. That being said, weight loss is a very common…
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