By Robert Heller, MD — Co-Founder and Medical Director, Juvelixir® "Clinically studied" is doing an enormous amount of work on supplement labels, and almost none of it is the work the shopper believes it is doing. It ...
Read moreBy Robert Heller, MD — Co-Founder and Medical Director, Juvelixir® Almost nobody ever came to me with a Tuesday problem. They came in tired, and when I asked how they were sleeping I would hear that the weekdays were ...
Read moreBy Robert Heller, MD — Co-Founder and Medical Director, Juvelixir I have outlived a great many diets. I began practicing when fat was the villain and margarine was the responsible choice. I watched eggs be condemned, ...
Read moreBy Robert Heller, MD — Co-Founder and Medical Director, Juvelixir I never asked a patient whether they were stressed. The answer was always the same word — fine — delivered in a tone that frequently contradicted it. S...
Read moreBy Robert Heller, MD — Co-Founder and Medical Director, Juvelixir Patients used to apologize to me for walking. I would ask what they were doing for movement and get a slightly sheepish answer: well, I only walk. On...
Read moreBy Robert Heller, MD — Co-Founder and Medical Director, Juvelixir I stopped asking patients to keep food diaries somewhere around my thirtieth year of practice. They were a great deal of work for the patient and, in m...
Read moreBy Robert Heller, MD — Co-Founder and Medical Director, Juvelixir For most of my career, patients brought me bottles and asked whether they were any good. I developed a routine for answering that takes about ninety se...
Read moreBy Robert Heller, MD — Co-Founder and Medical Director, Juvelixir A patient once set nine supplement bottles on my exam table and asked which ones he should keep. I asked how he was sleeping. He said, a bit impatientl...
Read moreBy Robert Heller, MD — Co-Founder and Medical Director, Juvelixir I spent sixty years as a practicing internist. In that time I wrote a great many prescriptions, and I had a great many conversations that had nothing t...
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