Time to pull out your favorite headphones, plug in your iPod (or phone, laptop, tablet, 8 Track) and get ready for the OrganicMD podcast! Worried about your Cholesterol? These days you might be – especially with all the information and MIS-information about the subject. This week Dr. Miller tackles the subject with reckless abandon to […]

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Milk intake and risk of mortality and fractures in women and men: cohort studies BMJ 2014; (Published 28 October 2014) Karl Michaëlsson, et.al. Correspondence to: K Michaëlsson [email protected] Abstract Objective To examine whether high milk consumption is associated with mortality and fractures in women and men. Design Cohort studies. Setting Three counties in central Sweden. […]

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There is no topic that is more confusing than fats and nutrition. Recent recommendations on what a healthy diet looks like for people in the United States would have us eating far more healthy fats than before, but the education about what is a healthy fat and what is an unhealthy fat is hard information […]

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Vitamin D. An essential nutrient we all need. However, there is much disagreement among doctors as to how much Vitamin D needs to be taken as a supplement. Physicians, who often prescribe and recommend vitamin D2, have concerns because too much vitamin D2 can definitely be toxic, and harmful to your liver. Integrative practitioners, and people who […]

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“…Thought is given a unique ability to negate and transcend immediate experience…” – Graham Harmon Recently I met with one of my mentors and friends, a retired physician who lives in Florida. Since then I find that I can’t shake the conversation we had. He was lamenting the fact that many of the articles now in his […]

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As long as I can remember, milk held a role as a basic staple in the average diet. Even with the emergence of soy, almond, rice and coconut as alternatives to dairy, milk still seems to hold its own. Given what we’re about to talk about, it’s amazing milk made it this far. After wheat, […]

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What you eat makes a difference. Simple right? Simple to say, hard to do. This week we tackle the 2nd of the Five Factors of Autoimmune Disease. Get your eating caps on! Remember: There are Five Factors behind all auto immunity. Five things that stimulate your immune system. Five things you can control. In the […]

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Years of negative associations of dietary fat with calories, body fat, cholesterol, and cancer have resulted in a general attitude that foods containing fats are simply to be avoided. Many food manufacturers have taken advantage of this attitude by modifying fat content and labeling wherever possible to tout “low-fat” as equivalent to “heart healthy” foods. Advertisements for such foods further instill the notion that dietary fat is bad. Amid the clamor over the largely mistaken problems associated with dietary fats, many very real problems have been created by the large-scale use of modified fats by food suppliers. Individuals do not feel the effects of poor dietary fat intake on the short term because of the presence of many protective mechanisms that cause health threats from fatty acid deficiencies and imbalances to be insidious and unrecognized.

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