Green Tea 101

Green tea has a number of known health benefits such as decreasing heart disease risk, helping with weight loss and improving brain function. Green tea lowers total cholesterol, LDL (AKA bad cholesterol) and blood pressure. Most particularly, there is a lot of...

Crying and Soothing in Newborns

Why do babies cry so much? Newborn babies sleep a lot, particularly during the first five days after birth (the “Grace Period”). They all also show a pattern of increasing emotionality with a peak of fussiness that requires lots of extra soothing at 6 weeks of age....

Mistletoe in Cancer Treatment

Mistletoe extract is probably the best studied alternative therapy for cancer and one of the most effective. It is widely used in Europe – 40% of all cancer patients in Germany use some form of mistletoe therapy – and yet its use is not common in the US....

Hypothyroidism

The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland that sits across the front of the neck. Hypothyroidism (sometimes called underactive, low or slow thyroid) is a condition where the thyroid gland is under-functioning. The thyroid gland is essential for growth and brain...