Michael Carlston, M.D. – Family Practice & Complementary Medicine
homeopathy . nutrition . herbs . sports medicine
I hope that, respecting tradition, you have dedicated yourselves to creating some better health habits in this New Year. I also hope that you are going about that in a joyful way, understanding that doing the right things will help you enjoy your life more. Also, pursuing good health habits should be fun, not tedious […]
Honey – sigh! What to say? Honey has long been the earthy, natural, sorta healthy counterpart to evil high fructose corn syrup, or just-not-so-good refined sugar. Pure like the golden sun, it is produced from flowers in sunny meadows by bees. Unfortunately, even this iconic “hippie-food” has been corrupted. One of the reasons honey has […]
It is nice to report good news. In this case, the good news is that a recent study of prostate cancer found that drinking coffee reduced risk. It is always essential to view dietary studies skeptically. There are so many reasons they can be misunderstood, or just plain wrong. The world is too complicated to […]
Water For Weight Loss An interesting weight loss study found that people who drank 2 cups of water before each of their three daily meals lost five pounds more than the unwatered folk in the trial. This was a small study, with only 48 people, all of whom were between 55 and 75 years of […]
Egg Recall The salmonella-contaminated egg recall is an opportunity to think about numbers. Nearly 1/2 billion eggs have been recalled. That is 1-2 contaminated eggs for every American. 500 million is a staggeringly huge number of eggs. However, the most important questions, “why” and “how”, come down to a very small number. That number is […]
You may have noticed that there is a campaign underway to get Americans to drop their salt intake. This has included discussion of measures as radical as creating a legal limit on salt (sodium) in processed food. Although there is a lot that is good about this, it can also create confusion. I have had […]