As many of you may know, I have been working on a few books as of late. This has limited my ability to write for Hormones Matter with any consistency. Absent new content, numbers drop. (For all of you who have been contemplating writing for us, now is the time.) In the meantime, I decided […]
In this post I will try to indicate how you might detect cognitive changes in a loved one and how you might help defer the onset of severe neurological disease. Every person developing dementia goes through mild cognitive impairment first. A given symptom might be short-term memory loss, difficulty in finding a particular word or […]
Between 1940 and about 1980, millions of pregnant women were given high doses of the artificial estrogen DES in a misguided attempt to prevent miscarriages, a drug that’s been shown to cause female development in biological males across a wide range of animal species.While both the mothers given the drug and their daughters who were […]
Readers of this website must surely be aware that the American medical profession completely resists the possibility of vitamin deficiency as a cause of any disease in America. This is so deeply ingrained that anybody claiming such a diagnosis is considered a fool. This seems to be particularly addressed to the classic vitamin B1 deficiency […]
This is my personal account of how I went from being a fit and healthy guy in my 30’s, in the best shape of my life and with a bright future, to having it completely destroyed by two different types of prescription medications. It all began a few years ago, in late 2009. Antidepressants for […]
Dietary Aversions and Preferences in Children with Autism “They are a super picky eater. They won’t eat vegetables.”These are some of the most common words I hear from the parents of my autistic patients. Of course, we all know that eating our veggies is healthy, but for a child on the spectrum what the bacteria would […]
I’m Celebrating Today, but not for the Reason You Would ThinkToday is a day of celebration for me! However, my celebration is probably not one that someone would consider a reason to celebrate. You see I have spent years and years being ill, matter of fact looking back to my childhood, I can honestly say […]
Homelessness affects men, women and children of all races and ethnicities. On any given night, more than 610,000 persons in the United States are homeless. Approximately one third of these are families. Homeless persons are more likely to become ill, have greater hospitalization rates and are more likely to die at a younger age than […]