Let me give you an example of an enzyme that is very important to our health, nitric oxide. Nitric oxide can be inactivated by even low level lead exposure. Where do you get lead exposure from? Well if you live in an old house or older city you have the potential for exposure to lead [...]

Cardiovascular disease As of 2007, it is the leading cause of death in the United States,[1][2] England, Canada and Wales,[3] killing one person every 34 seconds in the United States alone.[4] One of the risk factors that is most frequently targeted in cardiovascular disease is hyperlipidemia, or high cholesterol.   High cholesterol levels are closely associated [...]

What vitamin should I be taking?”  It is a question I get at every seminar I present and often each day at the pharmacy.  It is not always an easy question to answer.  For example, the question may come from a teenager, it could be a man or woman, it could be a patient that [...]