If I asked you what serious health condition Americans are at greatest risk of developing in their lifetimes what would you answer? (Forget for a moment that you just read the title of this blog post). I’m guessing that you might say cancer, heart disease or diabetes. As a doctor I have certainly …
Lyme Disease In Placer County
For the last several years monitoring by the Placer Mosquito and Vector Control District has found increasing numbers of Lyme disease infected ticks at various locations around Placer County. Now, with all the recent rain and the weather warming up, the conditions are ripe for more of us humans to …
Your Average Blood Sugar: Why It Really Matters
If there was a blood test that could give you valuable information about a major, yet reversible risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and age related dementia, would you want to take it? What if that same blood test could also give you information about your risk of heart disease, high blood …
Does Fish Oil Cause Prostate Cancer?
Articles and news reports have been popping up in the last few weeks suggesting that fish oil, one of the most trusted and respected nutritional supplements, may actually cause or contribute to prostate cancer. Is this true? This flurry of reporting is based on a single scientific study that was …
Friends In The Belly: how probiotics support health
I think it was Walt Whitman who said “I am large, I contain multitudes”. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t talking about probiotics, the beneficial bacteria that line our digestive tract, but he could have been. It has been estimated that bacteria in our G.I. tracts outnumber the cells that make up our …