Holistic Primary Care

1 week ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Michael Schulson

By Michael Schulson, Contributing Writer (This article was originally published on April 8, 2025 by www.undark.org)Two years ago, at a Stop & Shop in Rhode Island, the Danish neuroscientist and physician Henriette Edemann-Callesen visited an aisle stocked with sleep aids containing melatonin. She looked around in amazement. Then she took out her phone and snapped a photo to send to colleagues back home.

1 month ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Nicole Williams

(This article was originally published on January 27, 2025 by www.undark.org)My son was born in late 2019. A few months later, early one morning, I found myself looking into his eyes as he nursed and I wondered if I was doing the right thing. Trying to ignore my nagging worry, I continued nursing him, pushing off the uncertainty until the next feeding.

1 month ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Erik Goldman

MichaelMcGuffin was a true influencer. Not in the modern sense of someone who builds apersonal brand cult by flooding social media with provocative content andamassing “likes” and followers. But in the older, more noble sense: one whose quietbut unflagging commitment to good work had profound, far-reaching impact on theworld.

1 month ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Erik Goldman

Itwas right about this time, five years ago. I woke up one morning with a raunchycough, a head full of mucus, and an aching body that felt like a sack ofpotatoes. “Thisis weird,” I thought. I seldom get sick, and when I do it’s usually in the November-to-December transition when temperatures here in NYC drop and my thermoregulatory systems go haywire. By February, I’m usually adjusted to ‘winter mode,’ and reasonably healthy. So I was surprised by the timing and intensity of the thing that hit me.

2 months ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Erik Goldman

Say“sodium” in a medical context, and most people will reflexively think“hypertension,” not psoriasis. But dermatologistKatrina Abuabara and her research team at the University of California SanFrancisco have amassed considerable evidence suggesting that salt may play arole in development of psoriasis and other inflammatory skin disorders.