A Teaspoon for a Lifetime

Remember the red stuff your mom put on cuts and scrapes?

It contained iodine, a mineral that kills germs. But iodine is more than just an antiseptic you put on your skin. It’s a trace element essential for life. A teaspoon is all you need in a lifetime, but most people in the U.S. are deficient.

The tragedy is that many doctors don’t recognize iodine’s role in disease. You may suffer from chronic fatigue and hear “there’s no cure.” Your cholesterol or blood pressure is too high, and nothing short of drugs brings it down. Or the doctor tells you the cysts in your breasts or ovaries lead to cancer.

You may have one of these things as a result of a simple iodine deficiency.

Miracle Fatty Acid Adds Years to Your Life

Omega-3s may determine how long you’ll live – and it’s not just because they’re good for your heart.

Omega-3s may now have a profound effect on anti-aging by slowing down the shortening of telomeres.

What are telomeres? They’re protective tips that cap the ends of your DNA. Each time your cells divide, your telomeres get shorter. When your telomeres run down, cell division stops, and your life ends.

While this may sound like a clip from a science fiction movie, it’s real. And it’s about to change the world of medicine. Everything you’ve been told about aging is about to be transformed by this new science.

You may not have heard about this new breakthrough yet. That doesn’t surprise me.

Can Someone Talk You Out of Being Fat?

My patients ask me for diet advice every day. And every day I give them detailed programs that help them lose pound after pound of unwanted fat. But there’s one trick to losing fat and staying lean: You have to follow the program.

It doesn’t matter how well my techniques work. If you don’t follow them, you won’t lose fat. For my patients who have trouble sticking with it, I give them a technique that has nothing to do with diet, fitness or exercise. It’s something called medical hypnosis.

Yesterday’s Turkey Get the Best of You?

Did you overeat on Thanksgiving? Hey, it’s a holiday, right? Who would blame you?

If those extra helpings are still sitting with you the next day, you should read this.

The problem is usually not in your stomach. It’s usually with another part of your gastrointestinal tract called the colon.

It’s does a lot of important work for you. It separates and breaks down water and waste matter. It helps you absorb nutrients and remove harmful substances from the foods you’ve eaten and keeps you “regular.”

Focus to Fight Fat

My patients ask me for diet advice every day. And every day I give them detailed programs that help them lose pound after pound of unwanted fat. But there’s one trick to losing fat and staying lean: You have to follow the program.

Carbs Can Cause Cancer

The other night, my son Dylan and I were in line at the grocery checkout, and I couldn’t help but notice the woman in front of me.

As she unloaded potato chips, pastries, waffles, and pasta onto the conveyor belt, I wondered if she understood the risks she was taking. If she knew empty carbs were linked to breast cancer would she still buy them?

Strong Bones Without the Calcium Pills

Do you think that popping a calcium supplement will make your bones stronger?

Despite what you hear on TV, calcium supplements have little to do with the strength of your bones.

That’s what I tell my patients … and it always surprises them…

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