Let’s say you’re concerned about heart disease because you have a family history…or simply because it remains the nation’s No. 1 killer and you want to try to prevent it. So, you go to your [...]
Author: Dr. Micozzi
5 outright lies in new health documentary
A popular, new documentary on Netflix What the Health is getting a lot of attention in the press. It touts a vegetarian diet and blames meat for the country’s skyrocketing disease and obesity [...]
The lifesaving cancer scan bureaucrats don’t want you to have
As I’ve reported before, we know how to cut death rates for the nation’s No. 1 cancer killer by a whopping 20 percent with annual CT scans. In fact, if all at-risk patients got this new safe and [...]
Six herbs for high blood pressure management
As I reported yesterday, a recent study found that cannabis use more than triples the risk of dying from hypertension. But there’s some good news about other natural herbs… Many actually lower [...]
“Harmless drug” linked to three-fold increase in risk of dying from hypertension
As the widespread usage and (some legal) acceptance of marijuana continues to grow throughout the country, so do my concerns about its dangers. In fact, according to a new study, marijuana users [...]
Is the key to fighting Type II diabetes found in your gut?
As you know, doctors widely prescribe metformin to safely and effectively treat Type II diabetes. It lowers blood sugar and hemoglobin A1C (the long-term measure of blood glucose control). [...]
Prevent skin cancer by adding this to your salads
The fall harvest is upon us. Perhaps you’ve been gathering the last of the delicious, ripened vegetables from your garden or from local farm stands in the countryside as you set out on autumn [...]
Never take these three forms of magnesium
Yesterday, I reported on the importance of keeping nuts in your diet, despite what the government warned for decades. As I explained, nuts have a healthy ratio of lower omega-6 to higher omega-3 [...]
Lower your disease risk with this on-the-go snack
Many of us associate nuts with the fall harvest. They go well in many of my favorite savory dishes at this time of year. I just made a healthy, delicious cranberry-pecan chicken salad in that [...]
Diet soda sabotages weight loss and alters brain chemistry
Many people think that diet sodas with artificial sweeteners are healthier than regular soda. But as I explained last week, research links increased consumption of diet soda with all the same [...]