Disorders of the Stomach Stomach complaints number among the most frequent in our society and can be debilitating. Unfortunately for the unaware public, the diagnosis given and the treatments of choice are often exactly the wrong ones. The GI system is a “Top-Down”...
Allopathic (modern or western) medicine is by nature a reductionist philosophy, whereas Functional Medicine (a.k.a. Functional Nutrition or FN) takes the opposite approach, which can be termed “wholism”. (Not to be confused with the generic term “Holistic Medicine”...
The gastro-intestinal (GI) system extends from the brain to the rectum; it is one that is critical to health, but poorly appreciated. It communicates with the outside environment, and actually has its own brain! The surface of the intestines, which is greater than...
Vitamin D, under-appreciated by the general public (not to mention the medical profession), it is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies; it really possesses hormone-like activity and is believed to regulate the expression of over 2,000 genes, making its...
In 2000, an estimated 9 million new osteoporotic fractures occurred. Of these fractures, 1.4 million were vertebral and 1.6 million involved the hip. At least one in three women and one in five men over the age of 50 will suffer a hip fracture caused by weakened bone....
