Will Soy Put Out The Fire? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney There has been a lot of controversy in recent years about soy and hot flashes. The question is whether soy isoflavones reduce the hot flashes associated with menopause. And this is an important question! Because of concerns about increase heart attack risk with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) many ...
A New Study Shows B Vitamins and Omega-3s May Prevent Memory Loss Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney Want to know how to prevent memory loss? Every once in a while a breakthrough study comes along that has the potential to change paradigms. A recent study (Jerneren et al, Am J Clin Nutr, 102: 215-221, 2015) looking at the ...
What To Do For Tight Hamstrings Author: Julie Donnelly, LMT –The Pain Relief Expert Editor: Dr. Steve Chaney You are about to begin your run, or maybe you have just finished running. Your hamstring feels really tight. Maybe it is even painful. It seems obvious that you need to stretch it, but that could be exactly the wrong ...
Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? Author: Dr. Steve Chaney Do statins cause memory loss? They are at it again. The medical profession is telling us that yet another study shows that statins are safe, so almost everyone should be taking a statin drug. There is only one problem. That’s not what the study really showed. Let’s ...
Iron and the Teen Brain Author: Dr. Steve Chaney For those of you with teenagers - or who have had teenagers in the past - you may suspect that there's nothing between their ears. But actually there is a lot going on between their ears, and some of the neural contacts laid down in the brain during ...
Are Food Choices More Important Than Calories?Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney Most adult Americans gain a pound or two each year. That may not sound like much on a yearly basis, but over a lifetime it is huge – if you’ll pardon the pun. Because the health consequences of weight gain are so devastating, everyone has their favorite ...
Does Fish Oil Build Muscle? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney Omega-3-rich fish oil supplements have attracted their share of controversy in recent years, but there appear to be lots of reasons to make sure that you get enough omega-3s from your diet. There is actually pretty good evidence that omega-3s offer a natural approach for people who wish to ...
How To Treat Sciatic Nerve Pain Naturally Author: Julie Donnelly, LMT –The Pain Relief Expert Editor: Dr. Steve Chaney Stretches for sciatica pain work, but only when muscle spasms are released first! Most people have been told to stretch tight muscles but they haven’t been told that muscle spasms (trigger points) shorten the fibers and tie the muscles in tiny ...
Would You Like Hydrocolloids In Your "Healthy Fast Food?" Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney The fast food industry is changing. Some of the changes are good. Some of the changes are bad. Some of the changes are downright ugly. Let’s start with the good. In recent months Panera, MacDonald’s and Subway have all announced that they are switching to ...
Can What We Eat Affect Our Kids? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney What is epigenetics? For me, the first stages of understanding came a while back. When I was a young graduate student (which is more than just a few years ago), I was taught that all genetic information resided in our DNA. During conception, we picked up ...