Millions of Americans suffer from sleep disorders. Sleep specialists are only now starting to fully appreciate the complexity and importance of sleep. Sleep disorders can…
Dogs and cats share most health problems with humans. Readers of my blog know that I believe in attacking healthcare problems by all available means.…
This is the title of a Reuters story as reported on Yahoo! News today. The lead paragraph says: “Middle-aged men who ate seven or more…
I am not alone in my view that anorexia is beriberi and can be prevented by use of vitamin supplements. The world’s leading orthomolecular physicians…
I’m going to make the case in this column that Alzheimer’s disease, senility, and dementia may be forms of beriberi, the deficiency disease caused by…
Nutrition is a complex subject. Between vitamins and minerals, there are more than 40 essential nutrients. Then there are herbs. Then there is the quality…
Thiamine, or vitamin B1, is used by the body to neutralize and/or excrete toxic heavy metals that inevitably find their way into food, water, and…
The vitamin B1 in almost every multivitamin and B-complex vitamin is either thiamine mononitrate or thiamine hydrochloride. The body’s ability to absorb these two forms…
Working together vitamin D, vitamin C, niacin, and multivitamin can accelerate the return of good health to a sickly infant or toddler. Vitamin D is…
Metabolic functions in the body are known to be regulated. In today’s column I will discuss the regulation of body weight, blood sugar, and vitamins.…