Category: Nutrition

This article seems to be strong enough that doctors can advise their kidney stone patients to try to increase fluid and fruit intake.  On the other hand, the stone former should try to reduce meat and salt. ~ Dr. Broussard July 10, 2019 Fluid Intake and Dietary Factors and the Risk of Incident Kidney Stones…

June 20th, 2019 by Amy Meyers, M.D. If you are experiencing mysterious symptoms that seem to come out of nowhere, such as headaches, fatigue, joint pain, brain fog, or digestive issues, there is a good chance that they are the result of an undiagnosed food sensitivity. To be clear, a food sensitivity is not a…

The typical American diet is deficient in fruits and vegetables and contains excessive amounts of meat, refined grain products, and dessert foods. Such a diet can have numerous adverse biochemical effects, all of which create a proinflammatory state.  In this study, they relate chronic inflammation due to diet to the risk of depression in women,…

In this article, they reviewed what interventions practitioners used for intestinal hyperpermeability or “leaky gut syndrome”.  The main recommendations are Zinc, multistrain probiotics, Vitamin D, L-glutamine, curcumin and Saccharomyces boulardii.  There seems to be good evidence that these nutritional interventions can help.  I would add that Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, and alpha-ketoglutaric acid should be…

In the June issue of the British Medical Journal, they published two articles dealing with ultra-processed food. In one article, they found that if you eat more than 4 servings of junk food per day, your chances of dying early from anything is 62%, and for each additional serving, your hazard goes up by 18%. In…

Drinking coffee might keep us up at night, but new research has given us a reason to sleep easy knowing that the popular drink isn’t as bad for our arteries as some previous studies would suggest. The research from Queen Mary University of London has shown that drinking coffee, including in people who drink up…

Naveed Saleh, MD, MS, for MDLinx | May 23, 2019 You probably know that most sugary drinks—including sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) like soda, soft drinks, and fruit-flavored drinks—are bad for you. But what about 100% fruit juice, another type of sugary drink? Although there have been some declines in sugar consumption in recent years, people still…