Good skincare can cut down on further damage, but to reverse the look of sagging skin, you might have to consider a cosmetic procedure. These days, that doesn’t mean a full-on face lift. In fact there are many, much less-invasive options to choose from…

Ultimately, it’s those lifestyle habits, the way you eat and how you treat your body — including your skin — that are the biggest factors to looking and feeling your best… even when it comes to fine lines and wrinkles. But the right topical treatments can go a long way to help…

If your doctor put you on statins, I’ll bet you weren’t given better and safer alternatives to help prevent cardiovascular disease. Considering there are more than 900 studies on the adverse effects of this high revenue-generating drug, let me share seven better ways with you…

Doctors feel secure prescribing any medicine that’s been shown to be effective. The statin drug manufacturers know this and successfully established their studies showing big benefits of statins to lower cholesterol and reduce cardiovascular disease risk. But what did they hide?

You may have heard about the recent YouTube video in which a Harvard Professor called coconut oil “pure poison” and “one of the worst foods you can eat.” Like I did with the American Heart Association, let me set the record straight about this highly nutritious food…

Even though people don’t always respond predictably to every kind of treatment, there are clear patterns of how your body works. Sometimes standard treatments and prescriptions work, and sometimes they don’t. You’ll be lucky to know those avenues are not your only choices…

Recently, I was reprimanded by a fellow physician. It wasn’t for prescribing antibiotics over the phone for a patient with symptoms that were likely viral, as this doctor did… but for suggesting a treatment that could help my patients rely less on mainstream medicine’s biggest money makers.

The mainstream loves to disregard therapies that have not been“ proven by randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trials.” Does this mean safe and effective therapies that lack clinical trial are not valid and should not be recommended?

Many medical conditions have qualified for treatment with cannabis: Chronic pain of any type; migraines, persistent muscle spasm, cancer, and many more illnesses. But it could keep your doctor from prescribing you other needed medications. Is this right?

The quickest way to discover a skeptic is to start a conversation about acupuncture. I know because I was one myself… My left shoulder had been aching for 9 months. Out of desperation, this M.D. found himself in the office of a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, and, to my amazement, this is what happened…

I believe that quelling inflammation can help you live healthier longer. So, the earlier you find out if inflammation is burning up your health, the better. That’s why it’s important to have these seven blood markers of inflammation, as well as intestinal markers, checked out…

Acute inflammation, the kind you experience when you have an injury, is the pathway to healing. The swelling and redness is your immune response repairing the damage. Chronic inflammation, however, sets your body up for disease. How can you tell if it’s making your sick?