Archive for April 29th, 2009

VEGETARIANISM

Vegetarianism has attracted increasing interest in recent years for health, economic, environmental and ethical reasons. There are three types of vegetarians — vegans, who don’t eat meat, eggs, or dairy products; lacto-vegetarians who eat dairy products and ovo-lacto-vegetarians who eat both eggs and dairy products. Some of the health advantages of vegetarianism are impressive. There [...]

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO USING ST JOHN’S WORT: GETTING THE DOSE RIGHT

Since the target dosage in most of the anti-depressant studies of mild-to-moderate depression has been 900 mg of Hypericum per day, this is a reasonable dose to aim for. The Kira brand of St John’s Wort which, for reasons that I discuss later, is the one I recommend most highly, comes in only 135-mg dosage, [...]