Issue: October 2021 #459

American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) Announces Acquisition of BodySite Digital Health

The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M)—the global leader for continuing medical education in longevity and whole-person medicine—has announced the acquisition of BodySite.com by its parent company Tarsus Medical Group. The acquisition marks the organization’s continued movement into the ever-growing digital healthcare space.  BodySite is a world-leading digital care app […]

Emerging from the Psychedelic Dark Ages – A Brief History of Psychedelics in the West, the War on Drugs, and Today’s Psychedelic Renaissance

By Erica Zelfand, ND The Psychedelic Renaissance is here, with powerful medicines like psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide-25 (LSD), and 3,4-Methyl​enedioxy​methamphetamine (MDMA) back en vogue. But how did we get here? (Hold onto your seats, cosmonauts; we’re going on a trip.) The Debut of Psychedelics in the West The history of […]

Insulin Resistance

Copyright By Pamela W. Smith, M.D., MPH, MS Description More than 80% of the population in the US who are adults have blood glucose levels that are too high.1  If an individual has a fasting blood sugar (FBS) that is high-normal (over 85 mg/dL), the risk of the person dying […]

Treating Periodontal Disease Delays Alzheimer’s

Curmudgeon’s Corner By Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO Back in November 2020, a federal panel of medical experts refused to endorse a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, saying that the evidence wasn’t persuasive enough.  However, half a year later, in June 2021, the FDA went ahead and approved this same drug, […]