Patients eating meals at the Whitaker Wellness Institute frequently leave the table and wander over to the buffet where we keep a large bowl of flaxseed and a coffee grinder. A couple of tablespoons into the grinder, a quick push, and the fluffy, powdery ground seeds are ready to be…
Flaxseed is about as close to perfect as a food can get. Its multi-system benefits earned it a prominent position in my diet and supplementation program long ago.
That's why it's so satisfying to see a growing body of clinical literature confirming the benefits of flaxseed. And with…
Recently, I was sitting at my desk very late one night reading my way through piles of medical journals when an exciting and extremely promising study on flaxseed and prostate cancer caught my eye. For me, the most interesting point of this study was its focus. While several studies…
Every so often I received inquiries regarding the safety of flaxseed and flaxseed oil. For example, one newspaper article quotes Dr. Peter Gott as saying that there are possible links between alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), the dominant oil in flaxseed, and prostate cancer.
This is true. Although studies on…
