Fatty acid composition is highly relevant to mental health, hormonal balance, and fetal growth. A growing body of literature supports the role of omega 3 fatty acids in mitigating the toxic effects...

Despite your OB’s concerns on one hand about mercury in fish – while somehow blithely injecting thimerosol-containing (ethylmercury) flu shots, on the other – many women...

Conventional obstetrical care in America has lost touch with a transgenerational wisdom related to birthing and new motherhood. Obstetricians no longer know how to manually assess fetal growth and...

Several studies have indicated a relationship between vitamin D deficiency and schizophrenia, but a recent study is the first to identify deficiency at the onset (first episode),...

Just because it’s on the shelf does not mean it’s been studied or should be presumed to be non-toxic. We know that sugar is toxic, but what about the popular sugar alternative, Splenda?...

The day has come and your little bundle is here. The wonder of it is overwhelming: this human grew out of two cells, inside you, and despite those last couple of days feeling like a year each, all...

My monthly radio show, Fearless Medicine, hosted by Fearless Parent, continues this Wednesday, January 15, 2014, at 11am EST, with a look at holistic midwifery.

Are Preterm Babies and High Stress Moms at Higher Risk from Pesticides?

A new animal study published in Neurotoxicology and Teratology aimed to explore several of the variables that can...

I would like to welcome Dr Mercola readers and share my inaugural Mercola post on the subject of antidepressants with my regular readers: unanswered questions, and evolving concerns about...

My friend Sarah, instructor and visionary behind Happy Healthy Child brought me to the second Kundalini yoga class of my life, recently. I’ve been doing yoga for 20 years, and have...

I hope that you are ready to open your mind, heart, and body to a new perspective on mental health and wellness; one that I feel is long overdue. When I am not with patients, I am reading primary...