Glenda from California sent me the following email: I watched the show “Your Health” that Dr. David Brownstein was on about thyroid and iodine deficiency. He discussed the iodine product Iodoral {which is a tableted form of iodine}. It has helped me immensely. I had a lot of fibroid cysts in my breasts, and
I am happy to announce my newest book, The Skinny On Fats, is at the printer and should be available shortly. I will let you know when the book is available. I wrote this book with my nutritionist Sheryl Shenefelt, CN. Sheryl has a new website you should check out. And, thank you Facebook people for choosing
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 for diabetes revolves around giving poor
At age 70–or 60, 50 or even 40– should you have the same blood pressure that you had at age 20? Many conventional doctors and most of the Powers-That-Be feel that the answer to that question is “yes”. Conventional medicine loves to issue guidelines. They have issued guidelines concerning weight, lipid and blood sugar levels
Tamiflu, the widely prescribed antiviral drug for the flu, is surprisingly still on the market. I wrote to you about the problems with Tamiflu in a previous blog post (4.29.09—accessed here: http://112.196.20.91/drbrownstein/swine-flu-advice/). In that article, I told you to avoid taking Tamiflu since it doesn’t work very well and is associated with serious side effects. A recent
No one likes to say, “I told you so”. Well, maybe sometimes we do. I have been prescribing and recommending unrefined salt to my patients for nearly 20 years. My analysis of thousands of blood tests continue to show that most patients are salt deficient. Yes, you read that correctly—patients generally need more salt in
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 2012. When we look at boys
Why do one in seven women in the U.S. have breast cancer? Unfortunately, the Powers-That-Be are too busy prescribing chemotherapy, surgery and radiation instead of searching for the underlying reasons why so many U.S. women are suffering and dying with breast cancer. Unless we stop the flow of money to the Powers-That-Be, which includes the
I received this email from a pharmacist I met at a lecture. “Hello Dr. B! I’m the pharmacist in Tulsa who spoke with you last fall about a thyroid nodule. As you predicted, after remaining on 50mg Iodoral daily for 3.5 months, they couldn’t visualize a nodule on the repeat ultrasound-ha ha! I mentioned this
Are statins and hypertensive medications useful for the elderly? I have written extensively about this subject in my books, newsletters and blog posts. Many older subjects—greater than 75% in one study—are taking statin medications in order to prevent getting a heart attack. (1) A recent article in Evidenced Based Medicine (2014. Feb. 26, 2014) found
