How Castor Oil Can Simplify Your Beauty Regimen

Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published January 6, 2018. Castor oil is a translucent vegetable oil with a yellow tint that is derived from the seeds of the castor plant. It is an unsaturated omega-9 fat well-known for having a distinctive, nauseating taste. Depending on your age, you may remember… Read More »

New XBB COVID Combination Vax to Include Flu and RSV

Since the advent of the vaccination program, many Americans have lined up to get shots for themselves and their children that promise to eliminate the potential of disease. The FDA and pharmaceutical companies may be banking on Americans taking the new monovalent COVID booster, which the FDA announced on June 16, 2023,1 alongside their fall… Read More »

What Happens to Doctors Who Innovate?

I chose “The Forgotten Side of Medicine” as the name for my publication on Substack because it touches upon the three critical facets of medicine: The art of medicine and depth of doctor-patient relationship — both which are becoming lost as we switch to an increasingly technological and algorithmic practice of medicine. The forgotten victims… Read More »

Can Inhaling Menthol Help Your Brain?

Researchers1 from Cima University of Navarra published a paper in Frontiers of Immunology in which they demonstrated that smelling menthol could improve cognition in animal models suffering from neurodegenerative disease. The study lends another layer of evidence that aromatherapy, or the practice of inhaling a scent or absorbing components of essential oils through the olfactory… Read More »