Mom, 86 leg cramps severe most nights, takes homeopathic remedy with mixed results. Eats banana a day. Is taking too many meds to mention here. Has poor lung function needs continual oxygen. I read your daily message. Thanks.
Leg cramps can ruin a night’s sleep, especially at an age when repairative sleep is critical. The most [...]
Aging and Leg Cramps
July 20th, 2010 · 2:29 AM
Tags: aging, dehydration, elderly, leg cramps, magnesium, manganese, potassium, water
Macular Degeneration and Nutritional Supplements
March 5th, 2009 · 6:05 AM
B Vitamins May Benefit Eye Health
An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal reports that age-related macular degeneration is the major cause of blindness and poor fine vision in the elderly. Long thought to have no cure or treatment, the use of B6, B12, and folic acid in a group of 5000
Tags: aging, antioxidants, B vitamins, blindness, elderly, folic acid, macular degeneration, vision
Common Sense, Genes, and the “Wellderly”
October 15th, 2008 · 4:07 PM
In this recent Wall Street Journal article entitled Secrets of the ‘Wellderly’, sixteen of the nineteen paragraphs talk about longevity in terms of genes, and finding the DNA keys that could be modified to help us live longer. To quote Nir Barzilae, head of the Longevity Genes Project at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in [...]
Tags: age, aging, elderly, genes, health, lifestyle, longevity, quality of life, smoking, vegetarianism, wellderly
My doctor says I can get all the vitamins and minerals I need from my food. What is your opinion on this?
I used to say the same thing to my patients, back in the days before I studied healthy alternatives. It is the party line of allopathic medicine, although that is starting to change. Here's the bottom line, and I'll follow up with some info on what allopaths are now doing: