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18 Aug

Posted at 07:45h in Naturopathic Medicine

In last week’s issue of Critical Review of Toxicology, Edward Calabrese, Ph.D., lays out his understanding of the mechanisms at play in hormesis.* Hormesis is a dose-response phenomenon characterized by low-dose stimulation and high-dose inhibition. Historically, dose-responses have been thought to occur in a linear fashion...

18 Aug

Posted at 07:44h in Uncategorized

A battle inside Congress and the Executive branch over the right of patients to choose care from the types of practitioners they prefer is erupting inside the Beltway. At stake is the meaning and potential revocation of ”non-discrimination in health care,”Section 2706 of the Affordable Care Act....

18 Aug

Posted at 07:44h in Cancer, Diet

In a study of more than 500,000 Americans, those who ate a healthy diet reduced their risk for pancreatic cancer by 15 percent. The diet used in the study followed federal dietary guidelines from 2005 and recommended eating a variety of nutritional foods and limiting saturated...

18 Aug

Posted at 07:42h in Allergies, Children's Health

Babies who ate more fruits and vegetables and fewer packaged foods were less likely to develop food allergies in a new study that looked at overall diet patterns instead of just specific foods. “We have been aware that certain diets seem to reduce the risk of...

13 Aug

Posted at 07:01h in Cancer

Current tamoxifen guidelines are clear: Drugs that interfere with the formation of active tamoxifen metabolites are important to consider and relevant to patient care, but genetic polymorphisms that do the same are not. But based on the data available, the question of whether CYP2D6 polymorphisms...