What are you really eating?
Michael Pollan is a New York Times best selling author of numerous books two of which I have read from cover to cover; Omnivorous Dilemma and In Defense of Food. The articles on his website are well written and highly…
10 Quick facts on prostate cancer
Unfortunately, although there is ample information on the web on prostate cancer (or anything else for that matter), many who come to our office at NYU Smilow Comprehensive Prostate Cancer center are not familiar with the basic facts…
Preventing those Painful Stones
I recently had the honor of writing a chapter for the 4th edition of the Textbook for Natural Medicine on Kidney Stones. If you have never experienced a passing of a kidney stone, the pain is excruciating often…
Male mice exposed to BPA become demasculinized
A study from the University of Missouri demonstrated that female mice would not want to mate with BPA exposed male mice. According to the lead investigator, Professor Cheryl Rosenfeld, Females do not want to mate with BPA-exposed male deer…
Finally, size don’t matter — prostate size that is.
Previous journal articles have suggested that men smaller prostates are at higher risk of high grade prostate cancer (Newton et al., 2010). This months issue of the Journal of Urology, debunks that notion. After looking at 1,404 patients from the…