Dr. Perlstein’s Blog

  While many yoga classes across the country seem to cater to the youthful enthusiast who wants to sweat his or her way through an hour-and-a-half workout, a growing number of longtime yoga devotees are raising questions about the best way to safely continue a yoga practice into midlife and beyond. “I suspect that yoga…

All-too-commonly prescribed for back pain – despite evidence that nondrug options are equally, if not more effective – steroids have taken a justifiable beating over the past several months. <img src=”http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=8&c2=2102&c3=13&c4=814113&c5=613459&c6=&c15=&c16=&cv=2.0&cj=1″ /A tainted batch of epidural steroidsproduced by a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy led to hundreds of cases of fungal meningitis and dozens of fatalities. But…

(NaturalNews) Did you know that one half of all the smokers in the world want to  quit right now but don’t know how? What’s worse is that 95 percent of smokers  who quit smoking without some form of help will return to the cancer-causing  habit within six months. These are dismal statistics, and there is…

Naturopathic medicine is showing wonderful benefits to help protect the heart. A new Canadian study suggests that the naturopathic approach will decrease cardiovascular risk and lower the incidence of metabolic syndrome, a condition which includes high blood sugar, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.   One tenet of naturopathic care is to work with a…

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has arguably reached epidemic levels in this country; between 22 and 24 million people suffer from the disease. But now there’s an exciting new development: scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have discovered a hormone that might slow or stop the progression of diabetes [1]. T2D is the most common…

Monoclonal antibody therapy stops tumor growth in mice Cancer Driver: Cells that over-express PVRL4 send out PVRL4 loaded arms (bright green) that reach out to neighboring cells. These connections initiate a process that creates cell-to-cell bindings that mimic attachment to the extracellular matrix and allow these cells to survive when they shouldn’t, turning them into…

This column appears in the May 12 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice. An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports…

A large new study confirms that sticking to the Mediterranean diet — fish, poultry, vegetables and fruit, with minimal dairy foods and meat — may be good for the brain. Researchers prospectively followed 17,478 mentally healthy men and women 45 and older, gathering data on diet from food questionnaires, and testing mental function with a…