Tag Archives: vitamins

A life of moderation: my individualized medicine series introduction

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Dr Aoife

For the next few weeks, I will be post­ing links and cri­tiques on ideas and sub­stances to instil bal­ance on how you and we as a soci­ety view things in health. I quite frankly can­not read one more word on the latest and greatest … Continue read­ing →

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Vitamin K2 — The Bone-​Saving Vitamin

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Dr Aoife

Vitamin K2 is a vit­amin that every­one is talk­ing about — but do you know what it is? For those of you that are unfa­mil­iar, I will give a Coles’ notes ver­sion about this vit­amin. What is vit­amin K2? Vitamin K2 is in the vit­amin K fam­ily (fat-​soluble) … Continue read­ing →

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The Calcium Conundrum: Get it in your bones… the right way

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Dr Aoife

In the last sev­eral months, I have had many ques­tions on cal­cium and what is too much cal­cium. Unfortunately the research sup­port­ing proper cal­cium sup­ple­ment­a­tion has been around for a long time now, but when pop­u­lar media shares a news report on “take … Continue read­ing →

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What Can I Do For My Restless Legs?

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dr Aoife

Those of you who have rest­less legs know what I’m talk­ing about. The exper­i­ence of rest­less legs syn­drome began for me in the middle of high school, most often when I went to the movies or when at the theatre. I would … Continue read­ing →

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