This month’s featured interview is with Tana Amen. Tana is a nurse, a New York Times Bestselling author, a highly respected health and fitness expert and a nationally renowned speaker and media guest. She and her husband Dr. Daniel Amen have done a recent PBS special called Healing ADD (which of course is Attention Deficit Disorder). Dr. Mache Seibel: I […]

To help you with understanding food labels, here are the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Guidelines for Common Food Claims and what they really mean: 

Learn how to take estrogen. In this video Dr. James Simon discusses new study showing transdermal estrogen taken by patches on the skin are safer than oral estrogen. Transdermal estrogen users had fewer blood clots, pulmonary embolus and heart attacks.

Ingredients:  – 1 cup uncooked red quinoa, rinsed – 2 cups low sodium vegetable broth – 1 cup canned chickpeas, rinsed – 1/2 cup grated mozzarella cheese – 1/3 cup panko bread crumbs – 1/2 cup sweet potatoes, diced very small – 3 scallions, finely sliced – 1 tsp freshly crushed garlic – 2 large eggs – salt and pepper […]

Now a new study has shown that texting may be a viable alternative. In a study performed at Duke University, researcher Dori Steinberg and her associates found that after six months, 26 obese women who used daily texting lost nearly 3 pounds, while another 24 who followed traditional methods gained 2 1⁄2 pounds. The average age of participants was 38 years. […]

You know how it is. Walk into a grocery store and see the beautiful label or the great ad and you pull one off the shelf and into your shopping cart. Marketing and advertising works. Thinking about healthy eating may be enough to prime your brain to make better food choices But what if you were influenced to buy healthier foods with the same kinds of marketing and ads? A recent study […]

You probably know eating too much salt (sodium) can lead to high blood pressure and other heart problems and you probably know that French fries and potato chips are loaded with salt. But there are also other foods lurking in the grocery store that may surprise you with their salt content. Your average daily requirement for salt is 1,500 mg. But the average American consumes about 3,400 mg. The […]

The medical name for weight loss surgery is bariatric surgery. The tips of your chromosomes are called telomeres. Telomeres are like the plastic cap on the tip of your shoelaces, and like shoelaces, telomeres prevent your chromosomes from unraveling and that slows your body’s aging. As you age, your telomeres get shorter. That increases the risk both of losing vital DNA from […]

Bioidentical means it’s exactly the same chemical structure as the estrogens you make in your body – it’s identical. And since this is biology, it’s bioidentical. There are three estrogens that the body makes: estradiol, estrone, and estriol. Estradiol is the main one produced by the ovary. It’s there in the reproductive years and is the most potent and the most […]

1. Myth: Diabetes is not that serious of a disease. FACT: If you manage your diabetes properly, you can prevent or delay diabetes complications. However, diabetes causes more deaths a year than breast cancer and aids combined. Two out of three people with diabetes die from heart disease or stroke. 2. Myth: If you are overweight or obese, you will eventually […]