Beyond the likelihood of flour to contain gluten, genetically modified grains, pesticides, and unpronounceable ingredients, it promotes blood sugar instability that looks a lot like irritability...

• This is a thorough discussion of the fluoride fallacy – it doesn’t help decay and it puts the whole body at risk.

• In my practice, I routinely prescribe compounded dessicated thyroid or Nature-Throid for symptom relief until we can work to limit the patient’s immune system attack on the thyroid...

• Despite the fact that no randomized trial has ever been done to support this recommendation, bed rest in pregnancy is offered as a “preventative measure” for all manner of mid-late...

Welcome to Fearless Parent Radio and my own show, Fearless Medicine.

Over at Fearless Parent, where I am Medical Director, Louise Kuo Habakus and Alison MacNeil host a provocative weekly radio...

The push to vaccinate for flu (influenza) has trickled down to our most vulnerable, pregnant women, children, and elderly. I discuss my concerns about this practice here and here, but a study, hot...

In many ways, pregnant moms-to-be and the nursing mothers are both charged with translating the environment to the growing baby. This transmission includes information about stress, pathogens, and...

I sometimes think about what supplements I might grab in a house fire, and magnesium is one of them.

I'd never diminish the evidence-based power of B vitamins, fatty acids, and fat...

So, you’re trying to grow a plant. You take it inside, in a little pot. You feed it fertilizer, put it under lights, and when it starts to wilt, you prop it up with all sorts of sticks and...

Medicine’s House of Cards – What Happens When We’ve Got It All Wrong

I have to admit, the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial still holds a special place in my...

I recently wrote a post on Fearless Parent, where I am Medical Director, to address concerns about the role of psychiatric meds in school violence. Take a look and see that I'm not the only one who...

Sometimes, pharmaceutical companies and their doctorly friends collectively make a bold move that shows their hand. Usually, this is in the form of indiscriminately and categorically broadening the...