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https://www.designsforhealth.com/u/danpurser/products/dgl-synergy/ DESIGNS for HEALTH (DFH) is a Florida company (recently moved from Connecticutt) that only sells direct to physicians. However, they do sell products on Amazon at a large

PURSER WELLNESSYour Immune System Needs Some Extra Love Right NowFrom the reading room

Give Your Immune System a Break Long-term immunity is built as the immune system becomes stronger by reacting to bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses that pose a threat to our health. By severely restricting our exposure to these microbes by regularly sanitizing our environment, we risk the lack of creating our usual natural immunity to common bacteria and viruses. Emotions also have a profound impact on our immunity. Loneliness, stress (particularly chronic stress), and depression can lower our resilience to these same microbes. The lifestyle changes, isolation, and financial insecurity of

PURSER WELLNESSThe Unfulfilled Promise of Glutathione From the reading room

Glutathione is not only an antioxidant it is one of only a few SUPER ANTIOXIDANTS another other one being superoxide dismutase, or SOD. What does it mean to be a super antioxidant? Vitamin C, the best known antioxidant, obviously helps with colds and other viral illnesses but in theory, reduced glutathione, the form we can use in our body, is a MILLION TIMES more potent! A million times more effective! It should be but so far has not been. WHY? And what is glutathione? Why is it supposed to be such an amazing vitamin? Well, it’s not really a vitamin as we know it, nor is it a hormone but somet

PURSER WELLNESSImprove Your Brain Health to Prevent Cognitive DeclineFrom the reading room

Keeping Your Brain Healthy As the world emerges from what was for many a prolonged period of inactivity and stress, it’s not just our bodies that have become soft - our brains are inevitably affected too. Just as Dr. James Levine coined the term “sitting is the new smoking” to describe the increase in heart disease and diabetes that accompanies too much inactivity, 2018 research from the University of California has found that sedentary behavior is also linked to thinning in regions of the brain that are critical to memory formation. Our Brain is Arguably our Most Valuable Organ A healthy brai

An interesting follow up on my ULCERATIVE COLITIS/CROHNS FB LIVE. Just in...

Check out how to naturally treat ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s at Dan Purser MD on YouTube! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2NpGa_IDY

A episode from Purser Wellness on Substack, covering gut and digestion.

I found this today -- 31 studies on PUBMED indeed showing a llink between MTHFR and ULCERATIVE COLITIS!! I was right. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=MTHFR+Ulcerative+colitis See you tonight at my Facebook Live 7 PM MST

INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE is often the first step along the spectrum towards the final diagnosis of Crohn's disease and/or Ulcerative Colitis. Supposedly there is no known cause for these illnesses -- they seem to be a mystery. So I thou

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Glutathione+Ulcerative+colitis Again, interesting. 306 studies on GLUTATHIONE and ULCERATIVE COLITIS -- who knew? Apparently this is why some of my UC and Crohn's patients have noticed that the VARS Li

This gets awful. Watch my Facebook Live Sunday night at 7PM to learn if we can help this a little or maybe a lot. Interestingly, the worse the MTHFR, the worse the CROHN's. Who knew? Could be just anecdotal but I don't know that. Nearly 2

HERE WE GO! My next FACEBOOK LIVE 7PM MST this upcoming Sunday night. On NATURAL OPTIONS for Crohn's Disease/ Ulcerative Colitis. Things I've found while evaluating and treating these patients that might help. Possibly surprising NEW GENETI