Uric acid is a chemical produced by your body when purines break down. Purines are found naturally in the body. Some come from damaged and dead cells when DNA is broken down. They are also found in many food and alcohol. In this article, I will discuss What does uric acid have to do with […]
Are Your Heartburn Medicines Damaging Your Kidneys and Brain?
Patient story: A 59-year-old woman has diabetes for 20 years with early kidney damage, presently on insulin injections. She had an angioplasty nine years ago because of chest pain from blocked heart arteries. Besides insulin, she was taking Plavix (Clopidogrel) and Nexium (PPI). Plavix works on blood cells called platelets to prevent them from sticking […]
Should You Stop Eating Gluten-Containing Food?
(An earlier version was posted in April 2019. Updated November 2019) What Is Gluten? Gluten is a family of proteins found in grains like wheat, spelt, rye and barley. It consists of two main proteins, glutenin and gliadin. Gluten is the component of grains that helps them bind together, like when you roll out a […]
Mind-Body Interventions In Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS):
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder of gut-brain interaction, which produces symptoms of abdominal pain and change in bowel habits in the absence of organic disease. What are the Mind-Body Interventions? The National Centre for Complementary and Integrative Health, USA defines mind-body interventions as those practices that “employ a variety of techniques designed to facilitate the mind’s […]
Are Cauliflower And Broccoli Harmful For Your Thyroid?
This is one of the commonest questions I am asked, “Doctor, you have asked me to eat low carbohydrate vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower, but my dietician/doctor/friend said that they are harmful for my thyroid” Is that true?
How Much Vitamin D3 Should You Take?
(This was posted earlier in June 2016. Updated Oct 2019) In recent years vitamin D deficiency has become like an epidemic all over the world. .Many people are surprised when I talk about severe vitamin D deficiency in my patients from India. In fact studies ((1))have shown that the incidence of vitamin D deficiency is […]
