Low levels of Vitamin D are rampant in our country — some even call it an epidemic. It’s also the supplement I get the most questions about, more than anything else I routinely recommend to my patients. The questions usually come in one of two forms: First, people ask...
Fish oil is one of my top prescriptions in practice because it does all the things: supports healthy mood, heart, skin, fertility, cholesterol, joints, inflammation, really everything. But after announcing the possibly one-time-only supplement sale on Nov. 29, I got a...
Are superfoods a thing? I spent a sunny Sunday morning going down the rabbit hole of food-nutrition research. Why? Because someone on the internet said something … with which I disagreed. A friend posted a short piece about the value of goji berries — a small Asian...
After 2020’s apocalyptic wildfires, clean air has never felt more important. While the smoke was still thick, I spent days researching air-purification options. Which air filter you choose depends on a couple of factors: what you need to filter, how big an area...
In late July 2020, a friend invited me to pick newly ripened elderberries in her Portland yard. She’s got two — just two! — of the shrubs growing, and she can’t keep up. Knowing how coveted they are as medicine, she didn’t want them going to waste. I eagerly...
