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Insulin

This newsletter had to wait until after Halloween. I didn’t want to throw shade on the joy of running door to door gathering small bundles of sugar for mass consumption later. After all, how often do we get people we hardly know to tell us how wonderful we look and reward us just for coming […]

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Trace Minerals

A patient asked me the other day, What are trace minerals? With this question, I realized that I have never addressed this in my newsletters. Since we would all die without trace minerals, this may be an important topic to cover. So our first consideration is what distinguishes trace minerals from regular/macro minerals? Macro minerals […]

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Iron

  What is the most common nutrient deficiency in the US?  As you might guess from the title of this article, the answer is iron.  While half of Americans do not get enough magnesium, actual clinical deficiency is rare.  Not so with iron.  A big part of this deficiency issue is the move away from […]