Category: General Health

Certain blood tests indicate whether your path toward or away from metabolic illness, including cancer and heart disease. Yet some of these tests are not typically run by your physician, generally because of insurance reimbursement issues. Fortunately, you can get tests done directly and inexpensively and learn from the results yourself.

As more adults and children in Maine become diagnosed with Lyme disease, the need for Lyme literate practitioners and reliable Lyme treatment strategies increases. This condition has increased dramatically in Maine over the past 2 decades, from 225 confirmed cases in 2004 to 1127 confirmed cases in 2013. Lyme is much more than a tick… Read more »

Written by Paula Jackson Jones and Angele Rice, co-founders of Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education (MLDSE), a nonprofit organization. May is recognized statewide, by proclamation of the Governor, as Lyme Disease Awareness Month, because of the increased risk when immature ticks emerge in the springtime. While many people know something about Lyme, there are… Read more »

L-carnitine is an important amino acid that helps the body to utilize fats as fuel. Technically, L-carnitine is the amino acid that ferries fatty acids to the mitochondria of the cell, where they can be made into ATP (cell fuel.)It is derived in the body from L-lysine, and methylated with the help of L-methionine (SAMe)… Read more »