Dr. Rollins Articles
Statins: The Cholesterol Diet Coke of Modern Medicine
Statins are marvelous drugs. They are also misunderstood, overtrusted, and occasionally treated like tiny orange seatbelts for the human heart....
Supporting Nerve Health During Chemotherapy
Integrative Supplements for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN) Some chemotherapy drugs, especially oxaliplatin (FOLFOX/CAPOX),...
Intravenous Therapies in Modern Integrative Medicine
An intravenous (IV) infusion changes the scale of what’s possible. Instead of being limited by digestion and first-pass metabolism, nutrients and...
Get the Lead Out with Chelation
A Mad Hatter Problem That Never Left ‘In THAT direction,’ the Cat said, waving its right paw, ‘lives a Hatter… and in THAT direction,’ waving the...
Please Pour the Coffee, But Do It Right
There’s an old story about an Ethiopian goat herder watching his animals dance after eating bright red berries. Curiosity did what curiosity always...
Good Calories Bad Calories
There is a certain elegance to the idea that all calories are created equal. It’s tidy. Democratic. A calorie is a calorie, we’re told - burn...
The Body That Improves Under Pressure
Every so often, a study comes along that challenges the operating assumptions underneath how we think about health. Not with drama, or with...
Aging in Motion
What it Really Means to Stay Active for Life There’s a quiet revolution happening in longevity science, and it doesn’t come from a pill bottle, a...
The Quiet Battle Over Compounding — and Why Colorado’s SB 26-066 Matters Now
From renewed FDA scrutiny to sharp criticism from segments of organized medicine, and even debates spilling into mainstream media, compounded...
The Mediterranean Diet: A Prescription Written in Sunlight
Where the Story Begins If you want to understand the Mediterranean diet, you don’t begin in a laboratory or a clinic or even with a stack of...
The Anti-Aging Cheat Sheet
How to Turn 101 and Still Know Where You Left Your Glasses Some people collect stamps. Some people collect regrets. And some people, apparently,...
When the Cancer Scan Is Clean but the Blood Isn’t
Cultivating the Biology of Cancer Remission There is a new kind of limbo in oncology. It did not exist twenty years ago. It arrived with molecular...
Heavy Metals and Cardiovascular Health
When we think of cardiovascular risk factors, we typically focus on diet, exercise, and genetics. But lurking beneath the radar is a silent threat of toxic heavy metals, ubiquitous environmental pollutants increasingly linked to heart disease. A major 2024 review in...
Why Am I So Tired – Could it be Adrenal Fatigue?
The body has a marvelous system for dealing with acute stress, allowing us to meet challenges and perform at a high level both physically and mentally. But, chronic stress, day in and day out without respite, leads to burnout and numerous health problems, especially...
Managing Stress by Finding Your Nervous System’s Sweet Spot
Stress is rampant and it's creating many health problems. Each day in the office I'm talking to patients about "dialing down" their stress response. We can't avoid every stressful situation, but we do have some simple and powerful tools to minimize the impact stress...
Bath vs Sauna: Which Heat Therapy Packs the Biggest Punch?
I love our hot tub. Our son loves his dry sauna. And many of my patients love their infra-red sauna. Last week I wrote about the benefits of heat therapy related to the heat shock proteins. But I've always wondered, is one heat therapy better than another? I just...
Heat vs. Cold Shock Proteins: A Battle of the Elements
Last week I was in Santa Fe enjoying a soak in a hot spring then alternating with a jump into icy cold water. Our friends were questioning the health benefits of both, and the sanity of the latter, and it got us talking shock proteins. In the quest for better health,...
A Long-Overdue Victory for Women’s Health
For more than three decades, I’ve worked alongside women navigating the complex and often overlooked terrain of perimenopause and menopause. I’ve witnessed the life-altering improvements that hormone therapy can bring - clearer thinking, better sleep, stronger bones,...
The Surprising Power of Activity for Insomnia Relief
Millions of people struggle each night with insomnia - difficulty falling or staying asleep, waking too early, or experiencing poor quality rest. While medications are commonly prescribed, they come with risks like dependency, next-day grogginess, and long-term health...
Busting Weight Loss Myths
Many well-known and long held beliefs regarding weight loss are untrue according to recent scientific research. Despite the popularity of some media and health-provider guidance, it appears much of this weight loss advice is presumptuous and unproven, or worse yet,...
Chronic Pain Therapy with Dr. Rachel Zoffness
Here’s a summary of the podcast episode Dolorology (PAIN) with Dr. Rachel Zoffness (from the series Ologies with Alie Ward) featuring pain-psychologist Rachel Zoffness, including its key ideas and implications. In the episode, Dr. Zoffness asks: What is pain? Where...
Staying Cool In Summer
Summertime in Western Colorado offers some of the best outside adventure in the world, whether it is cycling across desert slick rock or rafting raging rivers, hiking remote trails or golfing groomed links, we are blessed with an abundance of terrain that lures folks...
Vitality for the Aging Woman – Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy.
The goal of anti-aging is to slow, stop, or even reverse many of the changes associated with aging. This means staying healthy, active, and vibrant of body and mind, while avoiding the common diseases and infirmities of aging. One cornerstone of anti-aging strategy...
Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) and Cardiovascular Outcomes
As a physician specializing in testosterone replacement therapy for men with hypogonadism, I am frequently asked whether TRT increases cardiovascular risk. This question has long been debated, and until recently, answers have been clouded by contradictory data and...
Autoimmune Disease
Autoimmune disease is caused by the immune system attacking one's own body, instead of doing it's normal job of defending against foreign invaders such as bacteria, viruses, etc. For example, in rheumatoid arthritis the target is joints, in type 1 diabetes the target...
Seed Oils – A Slippery Slope for Health
In recent years, a growing body of nutritional science and ancestral wisdom has cast doubt on the healthfulness of a common component of the modern diet: seed oils. Once promoted as heart-healthy alternatives to saturated fats, oils like soybean, corn, canola,...
Alzheimer’s Testing and Result Interpretation
A major breakthrough in Alzheimer’s testing has arrived with the development of highly accurate blood-based biomarkers, offering a simpler, less invasive alternative to spinal taps and costly brain scans. These tests measure proteins linked to the disease, such as...
Methylene Blue: The Tiny Molecule with Powerful Health Benefits
History of Methylene Blue Methylene blue (MB) has a rich and unusual history that spans over 140 years, transitioning from a textile dye to a widely used medical and scientific tool. It was first synthesized in 1876 by German chemist Heinrich Caro as one of the...
Is Your MRI Safe?
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most widely used medical imaging technologies today. Praised for its detailed images and non-invasive nature, MRI has become essential in diagnosing everything from brain tumors and spinal problems to ligament tears and...
Understanding the FODMAP Diet
Digestive health issues, such as bloating, gas, and abdominal discomfort, are increasingly common. Many individuals suffer from these symptoms without understanding their causes or how to manage them effectively. One dietary approach that has gained significant...
NAD Intravenous Infusions
For IV infusion, the preferred form is NAD⁺ (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide in its oxidized form). Why is NAD⁺ Used for IV Therapy? Direct Bioavailability: NAD⁺ can be directly utilized by cells without requiring conversion from another form like NADH. Energy and...
NAD Chemistry
NAD, NAD⁺, and NADH are essential molecules in cellular metabolism, particularly in energy production and redox reactions. Here’s a breakdown of each: NAD (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) NAD is a coenzyme found in all living cells. It plays a key role in redox...
Revolutionizing Cannabinoids: The Benefits of Intravenous Infusions
Cannabinoids are a diverse group of chemical compounds that interact with the body’s endocannabinoid system (ECS), and they are generally classified into three main types based on their source and chemical structure: phytocannabinoids (from plants), endocannabinoids...
Carbohydrates: The Body’s Primary Energy Source
Carbohydrates are one of the three main macronutrients, alongside proteins and fats, that provide energy and are essential for the body’s proper function. While many people associate carbohydrates with weight gain and sugar-related health issues, they are actually a...
Anti-Aging Strategies
The goal of anti-aging is to slow, stop, or even reverse many of the changes associated with aging. This means staying healthy, active, and vibrant of body and mind, while avoiding the common diseases and infirmities of aging. One cornerstone of anti-aging strategy...
Get Super Fit
Wellness is quite more than the absence of disease. Similarly, to be “well” does not automatically mean one is fit. Rather, there is a spectrum that improves from sickness, to wellness, to fitness. Fitness can be thought of as “super-wellness.” Fitness keeps us at the...
Adrenomend
A Multi-Adaptogen HPA Axis Modulation Formula Adrenomend is best understood not as an “adrenal stimulant,” but as a stress-response regulatory blend. It does not directly “boost” adrenal glands. Instead, it works upstream — primarily at the level of the...
The Ancient Practice of Yoga: A Modern Path to Wellness
Yoga, an ancient practice dating back thousands of years, has experienced a remarkable surge in popularity across the globe. While its roots lie in spiritual and philosophical traditions, modern research continues to validate yoga's numerous benefits for physical,...
Chelation Affinity with EDTA
In chelation chemistry, a stability constant (often written as K or log K) quantifies how tightly a ligand (the chelator) binds a metal ion at equilibrium — mathematically, it’s the ratio of bound complex to free metal and free ligand, so a higher log K means the...
Why Antibodies Can Rise After Lyme & Chronic Infection Treatment
One of the most confusing and anxiety-provoking findings after treatment for Lyme disease and other chronic infections is a rise in antibody levels on follow-up testing. Many patients are told—or fear—that this means treatment has failed or that a new infection has...
Hormones That Take Off the Pounds
The frustration of not losing weight despite eating right and exercising is often related to hormone imbalances. Last week I wrote about hormones that cause weight gain. Now let’s consider several hormones that take off the pounds! With weight loss, some of them...
Hormones that Pack on the Pounds
In the struggle to maintain a healthy weight many of us find there seems to be some hidden roadblock to our progress. Despite eating well and exercising regularly, sometimes weight loss seems impossible. Rest assured there are often underlying hormone issues that...
Iron Avidity
Iron avidity is a state where the body is desperately trying to capture and use iron, but circulating iron is unavailable, even though iron may be present somewhere in the system or has recently been given. It’s best thought of as functional iron starvation....
Dysmetabolic Iron Overload Syndrome (DIOS)
Dysmetabolic Iron Overload Syndrome (DIOS) is treated very differently from genetic hemochromatosis. The goal is fix the metabolic problem, not aggressively “bleed out” iron. Here’s the evidence-based, clinically practical approach. What DIOS actually is DIOS is...
Healthy Aging, Oral Bugs & Nitric Oxide – Why It Matters to N¹O¹ Users
A new study titled “Ageing modifies the oral microbiome, nitric oxide bioavailability and vascular responses to dietary nitrate supplementation” by Anni Vanhatalo et al. (2025) reveals how older adults (67–79 years) respond differently to nitrate-rich beetroot juice...
The Cholesterol Hypothesis, or Myth?
The idea that cholesterol is the primary cause of heart disease has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. While high cholesterol levels, particularly LDL, have long been labeled a major risk factor, a growing body of research suggests that this relationship...
It’s Not Just a Dream: The Science and Psychology of Dreams
Dreams have long fascinated humanity, provoking curiosity, awe, and sometimes fear. Across history, cultures have attempted to understand and interpret dreams, attributing them to omens, divine messages, or strange byproducts of the mind. While the cultural...
Food Combination Diets, Magic or Myth?
A Food Combination Diet The basic idea of a food combination diet is that certain foods do not digest optimally if eaten together, while others mix well. It's true, some foods require a more acidic environment and take longer to digest, while others need less acid...
Wine Tasting Training Guide
Learning Wine Through Chemistry (Not Guesswork) Core principle You are not tasting “wine.”You are detecting small families of molecules interacting with your sensory memory. This guide trains recognition in layers, the same way the brain actually learns smells. Wine...
Classic Wine Grapes & the Chemistry Behind Their Aromas
A practical guide to why wines smell the way they do Wine aromas are not poetic accidents. They are produced by specific chemical compounds that come from the grape itself, fermentation, and aging. Different grape varieties tend to emphasize different compounds, which...
Perioral (Peri-Oral) Facial Dermatitis
A patient guide to understanding, treating, and preventing flares What is perioral dermatitis? Perioral dermatitis is a common inflammatory skin condition that causes small red bumps, irritation, and sometimes burning or tightness around the mouth. Despite the name,...
Ozonated Glycerin Protocols
Ozonated glycerin is glycerin (glycerol) that has been infused with ozone (O₃ gas) through a controlled bubbling process. The ozone reacts with the fatty alcohol structure of glycerin to form more stable ozonides and peroxides. Nebulization: Begin with a 5%...
Natural & Nutritional Approaches for H Pylori
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a spiral-shaped bacterium that lives in the stomach lining and is one of the most common chronic infections worldwide. It can survive stomach acid by producing enzymes that protect it, and over time it may cause inflammation of the...