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Is Your Thyroid Affecting Your Mental Health?

This article first appeared on Mercola.com.

Thyroid: What’s mental health got to do with it?

Meet your mitochondria.1 With a laundry list of responsibilities ranging from creating energy...

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Here's What's for Breakfast: The KB Smoothie

This post first appeared on FearlessParent.com

If breast milk is the only food we can accept (hopefully) as a template for human consumption, then we must put the much maligned saturated fat in its...

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Exercise Pregnancy Blues Away

We are built to move. In addition to a recent study suggesting that vigorous athleticism (professional rugby playing) can alter the microbiome, a new Spanish study has extended...

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The Power of Belief: New Placebo Data

This post first appeared on MadInAmerica.com

Thanks to the work of Dr. Irving Kirsch, we now know that the majority of the effect of antidepressants is attributable to the “active...

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Placebo Effect: Antidepressants at it Again

How much does it matter for patients to believe they will get well?

Thanks to the work of Dr. Irving Kirsch, we now know that the majority of the effect of antidepressants is attributable to...

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Inflammation Begets Depression: New Data

With two decades of literature supporting the cytokine theory of depression, we finally have the first study examining "proteomic changes" or inflammatory markers in unmedicated patients....

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Game Changer: Brain Immunity

This post first appeared on GreenMedInfo.com.

Sometimes science gets things wrong. With acknowledgement of these fundamental misapprehensions, whole swaths of dogma have to be unraveled,...

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Honey vs Table Sugar: It's Actual Food

In an effort to shift the nutritional paradigm beyond calories, macronutrients, and micronutrients to food as information, rethinking "sugar" from whole foods such as fruit and honey may help to...

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Just Say No: Mammography

I will never get a mammogram. Here’s why:

Just as conventional medicine tells us that germs must be eradicated and abolished for health, it tells us that cancer is an invasion to be thrashed...

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Preterm Birth? It Was the Cookies

It seems there may be some wisdom in the traditional cultural practice of sanctioning nutrient-dense foods for preconception couples, and engaging in several months of preparatory care. The first...

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Why Eat Organic in Pregnancy? What Monsanto Doesn't Want you to Know

This article first appeared on Greenmedinfo.com and is cowritten with Sayer Ji.

“Could you please make sure the eggs aren’t runny? I’m pregnant.”

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Preterm Birth: Is Your Placenta Toxic?

new study in the American Journal of Pathology is the first to demonstrate that accelerated placental “aging” is behind some cases of preterm labor/birth. Four...

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