I’d like to dedicate this article to a diabetic patient I treated in the ER recently, who arrived in a coma, with a blood sugar level over 1000. The patient survived and is recovering, but the entire traumatic and expensive episode could possibly have been avoided had they been aware of a widely available natural dietary supplement called Lipoic Acid (LA).

If you smoke, chances are you have tried to quit at least once, and failed. It is also pretty likely that you have tried to quit several times.

Hopefully you succeeded, putting you in a very small category: those who quit and remain abstinent for one year or more. According to American Cancer Society Statistics, only between 4 and 7% of smokers ever get this far in a given year!

For years I worked as an analytical chemist analyzing tissue samples from fish and I can attest to the fact that mercury is a real problem in the environment. It is an insidious poison with no positive role in the biology of any animal.

Low level, long term mercury exposure has been implicated in a wide array of chronic conditions from degenerative neurological diseases, to cognitive decline, tremors, loss of teeth, insomnia and “erethism,” a condition of severe, chronic irritability, that takes all the joy out of life.

Resveratrol is being touted as an Anti-Cancer, Anti-Inflammatory, Anti-Diabetes, Anti-Aging supplement, and more. How much of this is hype and how much is real? I can’t recall another substance that so quickly rocketed to prominence, due to an explosive accumulation of positive research evidence. Resveratrol stepped onto the nutritional stage in the mid-1990s’ when it was thought to be responsible for many of the benefits of red wine. Since that time, this has been hotly disputed, but hundreds of research papers have revealed far more intriguing possibilities for this fascinating substance.