Dr. Neal Insights

When Life Hands You Lymes, Make Lemonade

Lyme disease is an infection caused by a tick bite where a bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi is transmitted. Sometimes people “luck out” and get more “fun” after a single tick bite; there are some secondary…

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Attack of the Clowns

The driver of our clown car? Dr. Oz. Apparently, getting hauled before Congress was not enough to dampen his enthusiasm for spouting misguided supplement information.

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The Misunderstood, Mistreated Thyroid

Ah, the thyroid… Who knew one little gland could cause so many problems. There are few other health topics that elicit such strong reactions and have so many crazy theories. Who are we kidding? With the Internet, that…

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Can You Trust your Pharmacist?

So we’re going to have to change what we call our pharmacies… In the past, we’ve used the term “Integrative Pharmacy” as a way to show that we have expertise in the natural products as well as traditional and…

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USDA Organic: More Than Meets the Eyes?

In the late ’90s (when most of our staff were teenagers – yes we’re young but that doesn’t make us less awesome!) the USDA launched the USDA Organic Seal. Along with the seal, a board called the National Organic…

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Are Herbs Safer Than Medicines?

This week we had a talking head from an herbal company come and visit. While she was extolling the virtues of her line, she made a comment that horrified us. She said none of her products had any drug interactions…

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Pyramid Schemes

The parties aren’t really the problem. I mean, we can get into the psychology of why those parties work (the salespeople are friends/known – not strangers, peer pressure from other buyers at the party, the sunk cost…

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Something Fishy

No fish in the ocean are contaminant-free. All commercial fish used to make fish oil must be processed in order to remove the contaminants. Without processing, fish oils would contain such lovelies as PCBs or arsenic…

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Multivitamins Don’t Work!

Nope. Maybe people had too much food at Thanksgiving to care. Nothing changed. Status quo. Why? Probably because of the seemingly back and forth nature of medical research. “Eat butter.” “Don’t eat eggs!” “Meat will…

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Our Monthly Rant From Neal

First, a definition – at least in theory… “Raw” is one of those unregulated, fuzzy words that gets attached to a lot of stuff. When we discuss raw as it pertains to foods, we consider things that are unprocessed and…

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Why Having Non-GMO Month is Hypocritical

To say there’s a lot of confusion about GMOs is an understatement. Many people for one reason or another are trying to avoid them. Hey man, we’re all for supporting you in whatever health decisions you make… as long as…

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What’s In The Bottle?

If you haven’t noticed by now, our purpose is to show you the down and dirty of the food and supplement industries. Our tagline is “Honesty in Wellness” but that’s only because we didn’t want to use “Knock off the B.S…

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