The Medical Advisor

Introduction  Eggs are among the healthiest foods out there, but not all eggs are created equal, and sorting through the egg labels to identify the highest quality eggs can be a confusing affair. Health conscious consumers know to look for designations like "organic," "free-range," "pastured" and "cage-free,"1 but while you may think many of these are interchangeable, they're actually not. In some ways, these labels are little more than creative advertising. Updates: The featured video (below), "Egg Crackdown," a CBC Marketplace report by investigative reporter Asha Tomlinson, investigates the marketing of supermarket eggs and visits egg producers to get a firsthand look at what the company's label actually means.  A 2025 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition investigated how eggs, cholesterol, and saturated fat interact to influence low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol...

Most people take 600-2,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily. But what if you needed 10,000 IU every day just to stay healthy? Sound extreme? Here’s what you need to know: 10,000 IU seems like a huge dose, but it’s just 0.25 mg—1/4 of a milligram. Over 90% of people have low vitamin D levels, leaving them vulnerable to disease, pain, and immune dysfunction. The truth? The 600 IU guideline was set only to prevent rickets, not to optimize health. What makes vitamin D so important?  1. It controls 10% of your genes—affecting hundreds of bodily functions.  2. It’s essential for immunity, blood pressure, muscle function, and brain health.  3. Low levels are linked to depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and inflammation. Vitamin D deficiency is also very common because:  • We spend more time indoors, away from the sun.  • Glass blocks UV rays, so sun absorbed through windows won’t help.  • If your shadow is longer than you, you’re not absorbing vitamin D due to the sun’s pos...

It has been estimated that over 54 million adults and at least 300,000 children in the United States alone have rheumatic disease  ( American College of Rheumatology 2021 ). Since I have a massive clinical experience with RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis), I am going to use it as an example of how all autoimmune diseases can be treated. Why? Because they all have similar origins which are related to an antigen sneaking into your body and your immune system confusing it as a foreign invader. The antigen that gets into your system determines which of your body's tissues will be impacted. From the late 1980s and for the following 10 years, I treated over 3,000 patients with rheumatic illnesses, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), scleroderma, polymyositis and dermatomyositis. RA has a devastating prognosis in many patients. Rheumatoid arthritis affects about 1% of our population and at least 1.4 million Americans have definite or classical rheumatoid arthritis, althoug...