I realize I don’t write about gum disease that often — but it certainly comes up in conversations with my patients. So when I saw this latest study, I thought it was a good opportunity to touch [...]
Category: Cancer
This new breakthrough blood test identifies 8 of the most common cancers
There’s a brand-new blood test on the horizon — and I’m so fascinated by it that I had to share it with you right away. The test is called CancerSEEK. And if the name hasn’t tipped you off [...]
The Mediterranean secret to cancer survival
I’ve been talking about the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet for nearly as long as I’ve been in practice. My two biggest diet book successes were both variations on that theme — that a [...]
How extremely cold climates freeze you to death
This is an article that I’ve been waiting my whole life to write — because even when I couldn’t prove it, deep down, I knew it to be true. And now — finally — I can justify my intense distaste [...]
Why an early colonoscopy could save your life
Last week, I told you how the mainstream is finally starting to embrace vitamin D as a key form of cancer prevention. But for as welcome (and overdue) as this news is, it doesn’t exactly change [...]
Stop cancer in its tracks with a single vitamin
This one’s for all those naysayers out there. (And trust me, they number in the bazillions.) It may have taken years—not to mention millions of dollars and thousands of lives lost—to get to this [...]
The mainstream may change its mind on HRT — but I won’t
Medicine has long wrestled with the question of risk versus benefit where hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is concerned. And with such high stakes — including increased risks of lethal [...]
Mammography guidelines muddy the waters
I’d be hard pressed to think of a more controversial screening test than the mammogram. Well, perhaps the test itself isn’t controversial (unlike the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, cancer [...]
Why are so many women having healthy breasts removed?
A cancer diagnosis is terrifying. It can cause even the most level-headed people to make radical decisions to protect themselves. In the case of breast cancer, that is increasingly taking the [...]
1 in 5 cancer diagnoses is preventable
I just saw a patient who I can’t get off my mind. She’s a 7-year-old girl who has already suffered more in her young life than many of us ever will. That’s because she was diagnosed with [...]