Green Medicine Newsletter – Excerpts

An otherwise healthy woman in her 60s (we'll refer to her as Audrey) started to notice mild breathing obstruction in her sinuses, "kind of like starting to catch a cold". There was no fever, mucous discharge, or any other symptom indicating infection. The problem...

Steven Smith earned his B.S. from Indiana Wesleyan University in 1975 and his M. D. from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1979. Following residency in internal medicine he completed a residency in dermatology at the University of Texas in 1984. He's a...

Let's start with the skin, as both women and men are literally covered with it. It's very likely that as we grow older, we start to notice our skin is getting rougher. Why not slow that process? Fifteen women and five men aged between 40 and 50 years (mean age 44.85...

"I'm really worried about George," Marge Sampson said. "I finally convinced him to let me drag him in here for a check-up. He didn't want to come at all. The last time I got him to see a doctor he wanted to put George on an antidepressant. George got so upset; his...

What's this? We all learned in school that our bodies can't make vitamins; vitamins are essential nutrients that our bodies can't make internally, we must get them from our food. If we need more than what's in our food, then vitamin supplements can be added. So what's...

As explained in the Green Medicine Newsletter December 2018 article, "Can Your Own Body Make Enough Vitamin B3?", vitamin B3 is made from tryptophan inside our own bodies. When this "metabolic pathway" is disrupted, tryptophan is "re-routed" into xanthurenic acid and...

"It's this herpes thing," Jim McAllister said. "It's breaking out more and more often. Between herpes and work and kids, Judy and I haven't gotten together in months. I don't know if she's frustrated, but I am." "I've been just as frustrated trying to get him to see...

We’re all aware—especially women—of menopause, when women’s ovaries reduce and then stop secreting estrogens, progesterone, and a bit of testosterone. Men’s testosterone levels decline with time (a process termed “andropause”) of course much more slowly than women,...

October is said to be “Breast Cancer Awareness Month." Yet with all the publicity (and fund-raising) about breast cancer before and during October, we rarely (if ever) see or hear about research done and reported from several countries, which tells us that breast...

President Reagan’s Dementia Many Green Medicine Newsletter readers may remember that former President Ronald Reagan—by his own public admission—suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in his later years. Here’s a very brief excerpt from his “Letter to the American People”...