Alternative Medicine

2018: The Year of the Consumer

2018: The Year of the Consumer By: Karen Howard, CEO and Executive Director of Organic & Natural Health Association @OrgNatHealth We no longer have to wonder about the impact of the FDA’s budget being frozen, a federal hiring freeze, or a full-out directive to terminate and prevent promulgation of ‘most’ regulations. The natural products industry, …

Don’t Cheat on Sleep!

Ken Redcross, MD

It costs nothing, everyone wants more of it, but finding time to get it seems impossible. Sleep. It’s one of our most basic survival mechanisms that reboots the body’s motherboard each night. Without it, we can’t survive. In fact, studies show that sleep deprivation is linked to many diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes, …