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Over the past few years I’ve written a number of articles on the health benefits of caffeine, specifically when it comes to you in coffee or tea. And as much research as there is on the positive benefits of coffee and tea… The truth is not everyone benefits from a constant intake of caffeine. Besides alcohol, caffeine is the most socially acceptable drug you could ever take on a daily basis. In fact, caffeine is more acceptable than alcohol for daily use. No one views it as an issue if you start and end your day with caffeine. If you did that with beer and wine people might suspect that you have a problem (and the reality would be that...

Like most people, I don’t think many of you would say it’s a bad idea to make health products that protect our children.While medical technology has come a long way in the past 100 years, not everything we give to children is good for them.Whether we’re talking about the foods they eat, i.e. sugar-laden foods that promote obesity, or, we’re talking about medications for children that are purposefully filled with preservatives, artificial colors and outright dangerous ingredients, plenty of things our kids get are horrible for their developing bodies. As an integrative-health MD, I generally only work with adults. But, as a father of two young boys, I think constantly about what I give my children and how it affects their development.This is...

  Green tea. It’s one of nature’s most beneficial beverages as it contains far reaching health benefits that many other beverages will never manage to provide. Now, I do want to take a second and talk about a really big problem I have with green tea. It’s really not green. It’s more like a clear muddy brown. If it was green, it’d look like broccoli in a glass. But it doesn’t really look like that.  I guess it’d be a little more difficult to tell people to drink some muddy brown tea, right? Ok, enough of the funny man routine, let’s get down to medical business. And that’s discussing the health benefits behind one of the compounds found in green tea....