10May
02Mar
How Nutritional and Alternative Treatments Can Help You Avoid Using Drugs for Depression
By Dr. Mercola Depression is a very serious health problem and can be terminal, as up to 30,000 people who are depressed commit suicide every year. But are antidepressants the best approach? Contrary to popular belief, there are safer—and oftentimes far more effective—alternatives to the drug route, as explained here by Dr....
07Jan
Feed Your Brain To Curb Your Cravings
Push the play button below to hear the interview on "10 Minute Wellness Tips" Nationally acclaimed innovator and expert in the fields of integrative medicine, psychiatry, and addiction recovery, Dr. Cass helps individuals to take charge of their health. One area is in withdrawing from both psychiatric medication and substances of...
11May
Protecting Memory and Preserving Cognitive Performance
By Jim English The human brain is one of the most elegant and complex structures ever conceived. Comprising over ten billion neurons and supportive cells, no other organized structure – organic or silicon – can begin to match the sheer complexity and processing power of the human brain. It regulates...
22Apr
What’s REALLY In Your Water?
In the United States, our municipal water delivery systems are overburdened by poor quality source water. The only way cities can meet the federal mandated water standards is by adding more chemicals, most often, chlorine...a well known carcinogen. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rates and sets acceptable limits on huge...
27Mar
Tom Malterre Elimination Diet Interview with Dr. Hyla Cass, M.D.
This is what I have been waiting for - and maybe you have too! Many of my patients benefit amazingly by adjusting what they eat - and research bears this out. Even if you are already eating an organic whole foods diet, you may still be consuming a healthy food...
31Jan
Whole-Body Psychiatry – Mental Health is Not all in our Heads.
Mental health is not all in our heads. Nutrition is an oft-ignored — yet incredibly effective — way to manage mental illness, including schizophrenia. Robert Hedaya tried everything in mainstream psychiatry’s toolbox to treat a patient with panic disorder, including cognitive behavioral therapy and a series of prescribed medications. She was...
17Aug
Hyla Cass, M.D., a Woman on a Mission
by Lyle Hurd, Editor, Total Health Magazine Hyla Cass, M.D., is an oft-quoted expert in the field of integrative medicine. In addition to her busy practice, and nationwide lectures and media appearances (CBS news, MSNBC, PBS), she has written 10 books, including St. John’s Wort: Nature’s Blues...
04Aug
SSRIs Up Chance of Falls in Dementia Patients
By Kurt Ullman Nursing home residents with dementia face a significantly increased risk of injurious falls if they are taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), according to a Dutch retrospective study. There was nearly a three-fold increase in injurious falls seen in patients on any type of antidepressant medication, reported Tischa J.M....
17Jul
Badly Flawed Study of Fish Oils Leaps to Wildly Unsupported Conclusions about Cancer
I am glad to find this rebuttal of the recent study reported that EFA's cause prostate cancer. It made no sense, and this article does. Have a look: The study’s authors showed similar biases in previous papers—yet the media keep stoking the flames without doing any serious analysis. A...
09Jul
Constant Cravings…Am I a Food Addict?
Every New Year’s Resolution and almost every Monday will start the same: new goals and fresh ambition to once again, eat right, eat less, exercise more and finally lose those unwanted pounds! The day starts off great with a healthy and nourishing breakfast, you make it...
09Jul
How to Curb Alcohol Cravings
Approximately 18 million Americans are addicted to alcohol, and information from the World Health Organization shows that there are 140 million people in the world with alcohol disorders. The good news is that you can cut your cravings and even end your addiction, and I will show you how. For...
09Jul
Why You Crave Salt
Do you ever find it nearly impossible to stop eating potato chips? Or do you sometimes find yourself swinging through the drive-thru for some fries even when you're not really hungry? If so, you're not alone. Humans are hard wired to crave salt- and that makes sense, since we do...
20Jun
DHA Makes Women Smarter, Men Faster
Study suggests brain function improves with 1,160mg/day Women get smarter and men get faster after DHA supplementation, suggest a new study. The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, investigated the effect of DHA on the cognitive abilities of young men and women. DHA, or docosahexaenoic acid, is an...
09Jun
9th Graders in Denmark Expose Plants To Cellphone Radiation In Experiment
An experiment that tested the effects of mobile phone radiation conducted by 5 girls in a grade 9 class at Hjallerup School in North Jutland, Denmark has drawn acclaim and attention from numerous established researchers and scientists throughout Europe. The girls, Lea Nielsen, Mathilde Nielsen, Signe Nielsen, Sisse Coltau and Rikke...
31May
Feedback on KPFK Interview
Hi Dr.Cass, I enjoyed listening to your interview today. I am a local private health chef who is working on a book called "Culinary Secrets from a Left Handed Private Health Chef" (www.junepagan.com) . I have worked with a variety of homeopathic internists, registered dietitians, trainers over the past 30...
28May
Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food
Here is a timely article on the importance of eating whole foods, and in a fairly conservative and very respectable publication, the New York Times. WE like the idea that food can be the answer to our ills, that if we eat nutritious foods we won’t need medicine or supplements....
26Mar
Help Fight Monsanto And Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs)…!!!
Urgent: Please donate today! 80% of all processed foods in the United States contain food that was grown using some form of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has been doing a heroic fighting Monsanto's efforts to prohibit GMO labeling laws. In November, voters in Washington...
27Feb
8 Weeks to Vibrant Health Coaching
You deserve a life of health and abundance! What if, in just 8 weeks, you could: 1. Stop PMS, hot flashes, mood swings and hormone-related irritability, and regain hormone balance? 2. Start on a weight control program that really works because it’s not just about “eat less and exercise more?”...
22Jan
Is it Drugs, Not Guns, That Causes Violence?
A common thread amongst the most horrific school shootings of the past 25 years is that the majority of the shooters were taking a psychiatric medication. With the media fixated on guns and violent video games, Connecticut's chief medical examiner says he's seeking genetic clues to help explain why a...