The Food Based Pharmacist

10/31/2025

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Always a good idea to check out any "supplements" you are taking with prescription medications.

10/25/2025

Food is medicine! https://youtu.be/52cHi5yHqeg "we use drugs, stents and bypasses. Not one of which has one single solitary thing whatever to do with the causation of the illness" Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. M.D.

𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲!!! Big w...

10/08/2025

Supplements need more regulation! On more than one occasion when I was practicing hospital pharmacy did I see patients actually experiencing harm from supplements they thought were supposed to help them. The most glaring was an "energy" supplement that included desiccated calf adrenal gland ordered to be continued on admission. The patient had been admitted for extremely high blood pressure of unknown cause. The adrenal gland produces important hormones including adrenalin (epinephrine) which set him up for flight or fight all of the time. When contacted, the provider discontinued the home supplements and the patient's hypertensive crisis resolved.

As Americans take more gummies, pills and powders than ever, some physicians are trying to convince patients to be a bit more careful.

08/30/2025

https://connect.lifestylemedicine.org/culinarymedicineeducation/home Free Culinary Medicine course to elevate your skills in the kitchen. Enjoy!

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02/20/2025

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/august/legal-loophole-unsafe-ingredients.html I'm curious about how much of our current metabolic health crisis is due to eating chemical additives in nearly every processed food in the grocery store. It makes me think about how difficult realistically it would be to avoid these additives for most people.

01/10/2025

https://www.fullplateliving.org/blog/motivation-workshop These workshops are fun and informative. Come join in!

Long-term health and weight loss don’t come from a carrots-and-sticks approach (although a few carrots never hurt). Come discover a better way in our free workshop.

01/07/2025

Hoppin’ John! Missing in the prep photo is a big pile of chopped kale. The recipe calls for cooking the whole thing in the Instant Pot but I like my kale stirred in after. I will put the recipe in the comments

12/17/2024

Vacationing in Belize. The sheer volume of fresh fruits and veggies is astounding! This is a hearts of palm ceviche and brown rice seasoned with coconut milk powder.

10/28/2024

I’m at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine conference in Orlando Learning more about improved health through lifestyle changes. Knowledge is power

10/15/2024

Free continuing education for providers and allied health professionals.

Learn how food can be the best medicine and earn 5.5 Free CME/CE with the Lifestyle Medicine & Food as Medicine Essentials Course Bundle.

10/10/2024

Eat your fruits 🍎 🍉 and 🥗 veggies!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261561424002309

Subbing protein from animal sources with protein from plant sources can decrease risk of type 2 diabetes according to this meta analysis.

10/03/2024

Heart Heathy vegan special at Molly Malone’s on Baxter!

🌱 MUSHROOM SHEPHERD'S PIE Made with a medley of mushrooms, veggies, and topped with fresh herb mashed potatoes 🥔🌿 🍞 Served with: Savory whole wheat zucchini bread + orange marmalade 🍊 🥗 Plus a mixed green salad 🥬🥕 🍫 Dessert: Dark chocolate blueberry brownie 🤤