by Les Cole | Aug 15, 2013 | Aging, Functional Medicine, Metabolism, Natural Medicine, Nutrition
There is no longer any doubt from the medical and nutritional literature that nutrition is the greatest contributor to health and malnutrition the greatest contributor to disease. Hippocrates is quoted as saying, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy...
by Les Cole | Aug 6, 2013 | Antioxidants, IV Therapy, Metabolism, Natural Medicine, Nutrition, Operative Care, Supplements
The information for this article came from a paper written for my Master’s Thesis in Nutrition and Metabolism, Biomedical Section of The University of South Florida School of Medicine First, What Is Nutrition? We talk about nutrition, but what really does that mean?...
by Les Cole | Jul 25, 2013 | Functional Medicine, Hormones, Metabolism, Natural Medicine, Nutrition
Our understanding of health and disease has changed through time. Evil spirits and vapors were once thought to be the causes of disease. Hippocrates advocated, “Let food be thy medicine.” With the Renaissance came an inquiry into science including that of the human...
by Les Cole | Jul 14, 2013 | Antioxidants, Natural Medicine, Nutrition
Nutrigenomic foods are foods that effect the expression of your genes! They actually turn on or off whole sets of genes that have similar functions. Oxidative stress and inflammation can both be diminished in this way. These are foods that are most powerful in their...
by Les Cole | Jul 14, 2013 | Antioxidants, Natural Medicine, Nutrition
Some Perspective There has been an explosion in nutritional research in the last decade and, by year, the number of scientific articles has increased exponentially. What this research is showing, and the CDC confirmed in 2000, is that health and its inverse, disease,...
