Holistic Primary Care

2 days ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Erik Goldman

Early on in the recent MAHA Report on children’s health, its authors unwittingly reveal a glaring contradiction at the heart of the alliance between Robert Kennedy, Jr’s, Make America Healthy Again movement, and Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda. It’s a contradiction that’s even more troublesome, though less headline-grabbing, than the MAHA committee’s carelessness with research citations (we’ll get to that in a minute).

2 weeks ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Erik Goldman

Mangos. They’re cheery, packed with vitamin C and other nutrients, and though they’requite sweet, they can improve insulin sensitivity in people at risk of type 2diabetes. That’sthe upshot of a recent clinical trial from researchers at the ClinicalNutrition Research Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology. KatherinePett and colleagues studied 48 obese or overweight adults, all of whom also hadbaseline blood biomarker profiles indicating low-grade systemic inflammation.

2 weeks ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Erik Goldman

Joinus for an in-depth exploration of how telomere biology is reshaping ourunderstanding of aging-related conditions. In this free webinar, Dr. Gordon Crozier—a renowned practitioner of integrative medicine and genetics-based healthcare—explains how telomeres influence cellular metabolism and genomic stability.

2 weeks ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Erik Goldman |Claudia Lopez Lloreda

By Claudia López Lloreda (This article was originally published on April 9, 2025 on Undark.org)In recent years, health apps have seen an explosion in development and usage: Today, there are about 350,000 apps available to help people with everything from tracking weight, to finding a therapist, to helping identify skin lesions.

3 weeks ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Erik Goldman

A few decades ago, acupuncture was not a modality one expected US military healthcare to embrace. For most non-Asian Americans, it was more the stuff of myth than a reality of medical practice. ColonelRichard Charles Niemtzow, MD, PhD, MPH, did much to change that. Over his longand admirable career, he worked tirelessly to advance the clinical practice ofacupuncture within the military as well as out in civilian life.