By Kelly Brogan, MD and Louise Kuo Habakus. The original post can be found here.

Cars were at a 12 minute standstill and the traffic light repeatedly cycled green to red. In the streets, throngs of s...

Can Natural Methods Work for Hormonal Imbalance Treatment?

There is a significant disconnect today in the world of women’s health. In many traditional healing systems, women’s wisdom was passed down ...

We are in the midst of a thyroid epidemic. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists estimates that 27 million Americans have some form of thyroid disease and one woman in eight will devel...

“I used to be vegan,” Kristen confessed reflecting on the trajectory she’d traveled since we met. “I remember, before I came in for my consultation, I spent weeks walking in the meat aisle of my neigh...

"Why were you ever prescribed Zoloft?" I asked the 32 year old mother of 2 who had been taking the med for 10 years, unable to successfully taper off on her own. “That’s when my mom died and my intern...

Nine months after the birth of my first daughter, I felt off. Flatness, forgetfulness, cold, and tired. If I hadn’t discovered my formal diagnosis of an autoimmune thyroid condition, I could easily ha...

Do you ever feel like something should be “scientifically proven” before you trust it?

In medicine, we worship the controlled, randomized trial. We believe in an objective reality that is not observe...

Can Wheat Make You Crazy?

Maybe you’ve heard of the books Wheat Belly or Grain Brain. Maybe you’ve chatted with friends about a NY Times editorial claiming that gluten free is a fad. Maybe you’ve bee...

We all love the idea of a magic pill.

A safe, effective, quick fix.

I certainly do.

I thought that I was prescribing them, for years, to my patients suffering from insomnia, forgetfulness, lack of ...

The Key to Vital Productivity: Getting in the flow

Ever notice that the less you do, the less you get done? And, somehow, when you’re in the flow, you can almost stretch time with the efficiency of y...

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Self Healing through Self Discovery

Ever feel like everyone has a leg up on you? That they manage ...

The Journal of Physiological Anthropology has published a series looking at the effects of the modern environment on the microbiome. In this guest blog, authors of research in the series, Alan Logan a...