It’s been sunny (ish) for the last few days here in Portland. And maybe you’ve gone outside hoping to both enjoy the light and make some Vitamin D. Sunshine by itself is great for you — it helps with sleep, improves mood, supports healthy weight, lowers blood pressure...
Over the last weekend in January, I spent some quality time in mine, doing winter-garden things like clearing blackberries, mulching paths, trimming branches of my olive tree, marveling at the green that’s surviving the season and the new life starting to think about...
This piece was originally written in May 2020. It remains sadly relevant most of a year later. —Dr. Orna Good hygiene is one key way we can protect ourselves during the current pandemic. And hygiene applies to both the physical (washing our hands) and the...
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 I recently got a great question from one of my VIP email subscribers: What...
