The hormones women need to protect their heart

If you're a postmenopausal woman, have you stopped taking your estrogen pills out of fear that they are somehow dangerous? If my patients are typical, I would estimate that the number is about 50%. And all because of some very bad reporting by the media. Let me explain.

Powerful cancer prevention in a pill - cuts risk by 67% or more

I've told you in the past about vitamin D's ability to prevent and treat cancer. The evidence of this tiny pill's cancer-fighting power is growing rapidly. And now, two new studies show that it might dramatically reduce your cancer risk.

Large doses of fish oil don't prevent heart attack or stroke

I've been embroiled in a controversy about marine oil efficacy for several years. I've warned against pharmacological doses of fish oil. And I was the first in integrative medicine to do so. A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine has closed the case, in my favor, according to eminent Scripps Institute cardiologist Eric Topol.