by Erica Zelfand | Apr 9, 2024 | Dr. Erica Zelfand, Healthy Kids & Parents
Why I don’t recommend Paracetamol for most families. If you’ve ever walked into a pharmacy or raised a child, chances are you’ve heard of Paracetamol, Acetaminophen, or Tylenol. These are all the same drug, actually. In the United States and Canada, the generic drug...
by Erica Zelfand | Jul 13, 2023 | Articles, Dr. Erica Zelfand, Healthy Living, Immune, Autoimmune, & Allergies
It could save your life. We need to talk about vitamin D, and why it’s the vitamin that might just get us through the SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19) pandemic. We’ve known for quite some time now that people with low vitamin D levels are more likely to contract COVID-19,...
by Erica Zelfand | Jul 13, 2023 | Articles, Dr. Erica Zelfand, Healthy Living, Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
The science behind “Crazy Cat Ladies” Are you a cat or dog person? This question is more than just a conversational icebreaker. Your answer may determine whether you’re more or less likely to have get in a car accident, hoard things, develop a mental illness, and...
by Erica Zelfand | Jul 13, 2023 | Dr. Erica Zelfand, Healthy Kids & Parents, Healthy Living, Immune, Autoimmune, & Allergies
Our immune systems consist of two parts: the innate (or general) immune system and the adaptive (or acquired) immune system. In this video, I explain the basics of these immune systems, illuminating how they each fight germs (like bacteria, viruses, and fungi) and...
by Erica Zelfand | Jul 13, 2023 | Dr. Erica Zelfand, Healthy Living, Video
In this video, I demonstrate how to perform the wet sheet wrap treatment, an old-school nature-cure remedy for a myriad of acute ailments like colds, flus, respiratory “crud,” pain, and detoxification. In adherence of the current guidelines around social...
