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 | Feb 5, 2024 | Articles, Psychedelics
Psilocybin-containing mushrooms grow wild on every continent except Antarctica. Over 200 species of fungi contain psilocybin, so our planet is unlikely to be in short supply anytime soon. Nevertheless, we sometimes find ourselves in situations where we don’t have...
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 | 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...
