(Note: I wrote this blog with my friend, Dr. Lindsey Berkson) We can’t live without hormones. Hormones have much more to do with the body than just controlling reproductive actions. In fact, hormones control every bodily function, which includes the neurological, cardiovascular systems as well as the kidneys and...
Americans take too many prescription medications. In 2014, Americans filled 4.3 billion prescriptions while spending a record amount of $374 billion for their medications. 2014 spending on prescription drugs hit the highest level since 2001 according to data from the IMS Institute of Healthcare Informatics. I would not have...
I am constantly reading—both books and articles. In fact, I am running out of places to put my books–the book shelves are full! I wrote this blog, in part, to tell you about the books and articles that I find interesting. Living Bliss is a book written by C. Norman...
Why do Type 2 (adult-onset) diabetics have high blood sugar? Is it because they are lacking a prescription drug that lowers blood sugar levels? Of course not. Diabetics have elevated blood sugars because they have hormonal and nutritional imbalances often caused by eating an unhealthy diet. The conventional treatment...
Recently released CDC data shows that autism rates have increased 30% since 2012.(1) Now, 1 in 68 children aged eight years have autism. This is increased form 1 in 88 children in 2012. Keep in mind that there has been no change in the criteria to diagnose autism since...
Folks, this is a big deal. This bill is being driven by Big Pharma. If it passes, there is no doubt that FDA will start to make bioidentical, natural hormones unavailable. This bill needs go away. DrB Your bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is under...
It has always been amazing to me how doctors can prescribe a myriad of psychoactive drugs that have neither been properly studied nor proved to be effective. Antidepressant medications such as SSRI’s have never been shown to be very effective at treating patients from depression– in fact, they are...
Alzheimer’s disease is a terrible illness. It is a type of dementia that causes progressive problems with memory, thinking and behavior. It is a serious, debilitating illness that is occurring at staggering rates in the elderly population. Presently, one in three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s disease.(1) Seeing someone with...
A recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that many common chemicals are disrupting the human hormone system and could have significant health implications. The report is titled, “State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals.” It can be found...
Dr. Brownstein, along with his colleague Erika Schwartz, M.D., has an article published today (10.16.12) on USATODAY.com. The article provides the doctors’ point of view on the compounding pharmacy tragedy that has occurred due to the contaminated steroid injections.You can view the article here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/10/16/meningitis-compound-pharmacies-medication/1636975/