FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE BLOG
Includes over 800 monographs reporting on emerging studies in the medical and scientific literature of practical clinical importance, easily searched for content.
Coffee is a liver elixir
Coffee has been documented in a multitude of studies to have metabolic, cardiovascular and brain benefits, and it is especially salubrious for the liver. A paper just published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology handily summarizes several of the virtues that coffee has for liver function.
Prediabetes increases cancer risk
Prediabetes, elevated levels of blood sugar that are still 'within' the normal range, increases cancer risk among its mob of other afflictions as further validated by a meta-analysis just published in Diabetologia.
Nigella sativa, a true 'wonder medicine'?
Nigella sativa, also known as black cumin, produces seeds with a mind-boggling wealth of medicinal virtues. For colleagues and others who may not be familiar with the abundance of scientific evidence for the use of Nigella sativa seed extract in clinical practice, this selection of citations serves as an introduction to its wide range of indications.
Metabolic syndrome doubles the risk of liver cancer
Metabolic syndrome doubles the risk of liver cancer
Cancer & Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes significantly increases risks for pancreatic, liver and colon cancer.