Medicinal Mushrooms and Breast Cancer: What is the latest research?

Mushrooms have long been a delicacy in many culinary recipes, but what about their medicinal properties?  Have you walked by the typical white button mushroom in the grocery store and thought of it as a healing medicine? Not many have, but recent research is suggesting this mushroom and many others have cancer prevention properties. A …

BRCA BASICS: Understanding the Breast Cancer Gene

Last May, Angelina Jolie brought to the world’s attention the ‘breast cancer gene’ when the New York Times published her op ed, “My Medical Choice.”  This essay made public her decision to undergo prophylactic bilateral mastectomy to prevent breast cancer, following the discovery that she carries the ‘faulty’ BRCA1 genetic mutation.  Jolie’s own mother passed …

Balanced Life Q & A: Difficulty with Weight Loss

Dear WIBI: I am 42 years old, have irregular periods, and consider myself perimenopausal.  I have been trying to lose 15 pounds for 5 years.  I eat 1300 calories per day, work out at the gym 3-5 times per week, eat organic foods, and take probiotics.   Could my difficulty with weight loss have something to …