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 | Dr. Erica Zelfand, Healthy Living
The versatile vitamin’s mechanisms of action This article serves as Part 3 in my series on vitamin C, pain, and opioid use disorder. Check out Part 1 to learn about the vitamin’s use in the management of pain; in Part 2 I dive into its potential for easing...
by Erica Zelfand | Jul 13, 2023 | Addiction, Articles, Dr. Erica Zelfand, Healthy Living
What vitamin B3 has to do with addiction Taking a vitamin B3 (niacin) supplement may help treat alcohol use disorder and ease the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. Alcohol use disorder (AUD, or alcoholism) is a medical condition in which it is very difficult to control...
by Erica Zelfand | Jul 13, 2023 | Articles, Chronic Pain, Dr. Erica Zelfand, Immune, Autoimmune, & Allergies
Nutritional support for acute, chronic, surgical, and cancer-related pain What do humans have in common with other primates, bats, and guinea pigs? (No, not a love of cheese!) What we all have in common if that we cannot make L-gulonolactone oxidase (GLO), the enzyme...
by Erica Zelfand | Jul 13, 2023 | Addiction, Articles, Dr. Erica Zelfand, Healthy Living
What we know about ascorbate for withdrawal and cravings Part 2 in my three-part series on vitamin C, pain, and opioid use disorder. I first heard that vitamin C could help with opioid use disorder when I was asked to write an article on vitamin C, mood, and...
