Earlier this year, the government finally admitted its dietary advice to limit cholesterol and saturated fats was all wrong. So healthy foods like butter, eggs, meat, and shellfish should have [...]
Author: Dr. Micozzi
Colonoscopy contamination problem spreading
Earlier this year, I told you about the widespread problems with contaminated endoscopes, the instruments used to examine the GI tract. The contaminated scopes caused infections and deaths in [...]
Pregnancy and prescriptions
A brand-new study published in the medical journal Obstetrics & Gynecology found physicians today prescribe drugs at an amazing rate to pregnant women. When I was in medical school 40 years [...]
Beware of fraudulent charities
People are back from vacation. Children are back at school. And everyone is back at work. So–in the darkening evening, while trying to sit down to a healthy dinner, you can expect those [...]
Bring on the autumn rains
We often think about spring showers and summer thunderstorms. But rain is also important in the fall. It helps prepare the ground for seasonal freezing. And it helps prepare the plants and trees [...]
Some like it hot…and healthy
Forget chia seeds in your yogurt. Try something hot, spicy…and healthy. It may just help extend your life. In fact, in a new study published in the prestigious British Medical Journal, [...]
Modern medicine ignores the many health benefits of motherhood
At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, there is nothing better a woman can do to lower her risk of breast cancer, and other reproductive cancers, than to have more children. As I often [...]
Statins double breast cancer in women
New research shows women who take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs for 10 years or more have a much higher breast cancer risk than those who never take the blockbuster drugs. This finding [...]
Reduce Type II diabetes risk–and its complications–with this wonder nutrient
A reader recently accused me of “pushing” vitamin D. Now–if someone accused me of pushing one of big pharma’s dangerous drugs, like some other doctors, it would be a problem. But in my [...]
Antidepressants cause 15 times more suicides than FDA reports
Denmark-based researcher Dr. Peter C. Gotzsche recently made waves with a hard-hitting editorial published in the prestigious British Medical Journal. In the essay, Dr. Gotzsche criticized [...]