HEART DISEASE AND CALCIUM! FRIEND OR FOE?
By Clifford M. Sonnie, M.D.
Nothing in this world is caused by one thing and one thing only. Anything from A to Z and beyond has more than one reason for happening. Likewise, in medicine and heart disease there...
HEAVY METALS. NOT JUST LOUD MUSIC
BY: Clifford Sonnie, M.D.
Toxic metals are toxic minerals. They are also called heavy metals. We are concerned with them because they can wriggle their way into our bodies and take the place of good minerals. How...
Maybe Winnie the Pooh Was on to Something?
By: Clifford M. Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.
Without question, two of my favorite food toppings are honey and cinnamon. When I die, just smother me in that and throw me in the ground, because I will be a happy camper. I first remember my grandmother making all kinds of concoctions with honey and cinnamon. In fact, my brother...
“I’M TIRED. IT MUST BE MY THYROID! I CAN’T LOSE WEIGHT. IT MUST BE MY THYROID!”
By: Clifford Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.
I hear this time and again in my clinic so I thought I’d write a bit about the thyroid. It is an endocrine organ (it makes hormones) in your neck. It has two lobes located on each side of the lower part of the neck and a piece of tissue connecting the two together. It collects iodine...
THE IRREPLACEABLE LIVER
By: Clifford M. Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.
Ask anyone who has been to my clinic and they will tell you that I consider the GI tract and the Liver as the two most important organs in your body. If they don’t work, nothing works. Everyone at one time or another will be asked to do a liver cleanse. Now there are a bunch of them...
IBS Made Easy
By: Clifford M. Sonnie, M.D.
Today I’d like to talk about irritable bowel syndrome. I can’t tell you how many people have come into the office labeled with this condition. It is a very common condition in the United States. Statistics show 1 out of every 10 Americans has symptoms of IBS. In fact, it is the second...
IT DOESN’T LOOK SWOLLEN
By: CLIFFORD SONNIE, M.D., M.P.H.
I subscribe to a lot of medical journals. I was catching up on my reading this past weekend and something struck me. In almost every article some practitioner is touting that such and such herb or vitamin or whatever helped a certain condition. Well what hit me is that when you read the...
Leptin: New Fat Hormone? Not so fast!
By: Clifford Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.
There is a new hormone that is slowly making its way into the newspapers and talk shows. It is not really new but its role is being slowly revealed. The problem is, as I have seen in the past, once something is even hinted at being the cause of or help for some health condition, too many...
MALE MENOPAUSE, THE TRUE EQUALIZER
By: Clifford Sonnie, M.D.
I was channel surfing this past weekend and I was amazed with the number of infomercials that were about woman’s hormones and menopause. Just look at any magazine and the ads are everywhere. I however did not see one ad about andropause aka “men’s menopause” (the singular is manopause,...
MAGNESIUM, THE DECATHLETE OF MINERALS
By: Clifford Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece on the importance of magnesium in osteoporosis and overall bone health. I promised to expand on this a bit so here goes. If you remember, I had mentioned that calcium is essentially an excitation mineral found mainly in the circulating blood and magnesium...
