THE DECODING OF THE HUMAN GENOME at the dawn of the millennium carried the hope and promise of the beginning of the end of human suffering. However, after more than a decade of intense exploration of the human genome the burden of human disease and suffering has only increased across the globe. Heart disease, cancer, [...]
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Archive | December, 2010
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A FEW YEARS AGO, Jeffrey Bland quickly blurted out a sentence that speaks to the fundamental change happening in medicine today. “Functional medicine is a disruptive technology that will overthrow the tyranny of the diagnosis.” When I had dinner with Jeff a few weeks ago, he told me that at a recent conference of health [...]
REVOLUTIONS BUBBLE OUT OF INJUSTICE. Social, political, economic, spiritual, and physical oppression drives people to rise up against violations of basic human rights. Working with Partners in Health this year, after the earthquake in Haiti, I learned from Dr. Paul Farmer that health is among the most neglected of human rights. The injustices that violate [...]
MANY PEOPLE ASK me whether or not they need nutritional supplements if they eat a healthy diet. The next question that almost inevitably comes up is what they should take and where they can get high-quality supplements. Today, I’d like to bring some light to this issue, outline what I recommend most people take, and [...]
ONE DAY, VITAMIN D seems like the cure for everything, and the next, we are inundated with warnings about dangers and lack of science. Confusion is rampant about the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI’s) for Calcium and Vitamin D recently released from the Institute of Medicine. I have reviewed the report carefully and gathered input from [...]
We know many of you have been reading about the new Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI’s) for Calcium and Vitamin D recently released from the Institute of Medicine. The Clinical Team at The UltraWellness Center (UWC) would like to share our thoughts on this report to help minimize any confusion. Our opinions are based on the [...]
OVER THE YEARS I HAVE SHARED with many of you my passion for an emerging health care model based on systems medicine – functional medicine — that can reduce the global burden of chronic disease, improve patient outcomes, create healthy communities, and avert an economic crisis from escalating health care costs. Welcome to my first e-newsletter created [...]
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