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...
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...
Portlanders are a pretty food-savvy bunch. We know what to ask about the provenance of our food. We pay attention to ingredients, to gluten, to dairy, to grass-fed/free-range/high-omega-3/sustainability parameters (except when we just go for a donut.) So it sometimes...
