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Shuvendu Sen MD MS FACP, Vice-Chair/Faculty, Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Shuvendu Sen, MD, is director, medical education and associate program director, Internal Medicine Residency Program at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Meridian Hackensack University. Dr. Sen has been named to America’s Best Physicians and has received the Oscar E. Edwards Award from the American College of Physicians, as well as many national and regional awards for ...
Beyond Birthdays: Decoding Biological Age with Epigenetics and Innovative Testing
Last year I looked up the phrase “biological age” one time, that’s all it took and from then on I was inundated with ads, seemingly at every website I visit, extolling the endless benefits of the “most advanced” biological age tests and accompanying supplements that all promise to “turn back the hands of time” and ...
Are We All Addicted to Sugar?
Most of us can remember the early 2000s low fat diet trend that stemmed from the 70s—where anything labeled as low fat was a green light to consume. Fat had been demonized by the American Medical Association (AMA) and other important medical groups because of its supposed negative impact on heart health, and these groups ...
All Collagens Aren’t Created Equal
The U.S. collagen market size was estimated at more than $2.11 billion in 2022 and is anticipated to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.2 percent from 2023 to 2030.1 Clearly, collagen is a happening dietary supplement category—and if you’ve been in the industry for a while, you’re likely aware that the ...
Why “Whole Health” Needs to be Patient-centered, Driven and Led
The INM (Institute for Natural Medicine) Board of Directors recently met for a retreat on Vashon Island, WA. During the meeting, board and staff discussed a cultural shift that we would like to see in North America and how INM can help catalyze it. The shift we would like to see is that health care ...
Easily Eliminating Pain, and Its Routine Secondary Dementia
Research is showing that chronic pain, regardless of the cause, is associated with loss of brain volume and likely dementia. The more areas of chronic pain, the more the risk. Five or more areas of pain was associated with changes reflecting eight years of excess brain aging compared to controls.1 With 20 to 33 percent ...
Alona Pulde, MD, WeHeal, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Touted as a doctor of the future, Dr. Alona Pulde combines conventional Western medicine, Chinese medicine, lifestyle medicine, nonviolent communication, polyvagal theory and trauma-informed, somatic principles and pain reprocessing to create her groundbreaking paradigm. She starred in the documentary Forks Over Knives and co-authored six books, including the New York Times bestseller Forks Over Knives ...
Paradigm Shift in Medicine
In July 2023, EXPLORE journal published an online version of an article I co-authored with David Katz, MD, MPH, entitled “Paradigm Shift in Medicine: Integrating Naturopathic Care in the Treatment of Chronic Disease. Want to follow best practices in chronic disease treatment? Look to naturopathic physicians.”1 In the article, we highlight the potential of naturopathic ...
Neuropathy No-More!
As a naturopathic doctor, I have the privilege and enjoyment of being able to run functional medicine tests, alongside reference range labs to get the clearest picture of a patient’s clinical condition. It has been rather amazing to me how many people in our modern day are showing up deficient in B vitamins. Especially people ...
Glutathione for Liver Health and Beautiful Skin
Although often thought of as an amino acid, the antioxidant glutathione (GSH) is actually a tripeptide1,2 primarily synthesized in the liver and composed of the amino acids cysteine, glutamic acid and glycine.3,4 Arguably, GSH is the most important tripeptide in the body, playing critical roles in the synthesis and repair of DNA and protein, as ...
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