Dr. Rollins Articles
Brain Wave Frequencies
Brain cells communicate via electrical signals, which occur at different frequencies. These frequencies are what we refer to as "brainwaves" and...
Autism Triad
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Chelation Agents Affinity
Here's a comparative table of EDTA, DMPS, and DMSA for the top 10 toxic heavy metals, listed in descending order of affinity (based on approximate...
Cancer Protocol
Every patient and every cancer is different, yet there are some common therapies that we have found helpful. Our cancer protocol is simply meant to...
Starting the New Year with Healthy Habits
Here we go, again. New Years resolutions, goals, wishes... If you hope to improve your health, lose weight, live longer or live better, here are...
A Christmas Music Prescription
If laughter is the best medicine, then I’d like to think music is a close second. I discovered around the age of 18 that I have an ear for playing...
Heart and Soul
Anxiety causes heart attacks, according to the “Heart and Soul Study” published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, in which over 1000 people...
Transforming Healthcare in the 21st Century
By guest author, Judith Olesen Americans too often pay a high price for the ways in which conventional medicine is practiced. We pay a price not...
Giving Thanks
Thanksgiving is our nation’s official time for giving thanks, counting our blessings, and sharing kindness and courtesy to friends, family and even...
Stress Management Techniques
You have the ability to control the effect of stress on your mind and body. As one may not be able to remove or avoid all stress the goal at some...
Statin Drugs and High Cholesterol: A Story of Associations, Assumptions and Dogma
The love affair with statin drugs has turned from sizzle to fizzle as the irrational enthusiasm for these cholesterol-lowering drugs faces...
Vitality for the Aging Man
Men, if you feel like you are losing your mojo then it's time to check your testosterone level. Aging men will have a predictable decline in the...
Carotid Artery Ultrasound Screening, the CIMT Scan
Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) measurement is a simple 15 minute screening test, using ultrasound, that provides insight into a person's cardiovascular health. It detects the earliest traces of plaque within the layers of the artery wall, years before there is...
Niacin for cholesterol control
Only the “flushing” type of niacin is effective for cholesterol control. Flushing is a harmless, but unpleasant, potential side effect which happens shortly after taking niacin, and may include a prickly warm “flush” sensation. Ways to avoid and minimize flushing...
Cancer Development and Treatment
Cancer Development In order to treat or prevent cancer it is important to understand how and why cancer develops in the first place. Cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue. Cancer cells exist normally at the cellular...
Sulfur Avoidance Handout
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Glutamate Avoidance Handout
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Cardiometabolic Syndrome
Cardiometabolic syndrome, or metabolic syndrome, is a cluster of conditions — including high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, high triglyceride levels, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and excess body fat around your waist — which occur...
Ordering from Douglas Labs
Patients may order supplements directly from Douglas Labs using our account. Just follow these directions: Call 1-800-245-4440 Give them Dr Rollin’s Direct Ship Account # 2179876 Place Order You will be given a user name and password to order online for future...
Growth Hormone Secretagogues (GHS): A Physiologic Approach to Hormone Support
Growth Hormone Secretagogues (GHS), also referred to as growth hormone-releasing factors, are compounds that may be used to stimulate the body’s natural production of human growth hormone (HGH). These therapies are typically administered as subcutaneous injections...
Reversing Dementia
UCLA professor Dale Bredesen does a study showing nearly complete resolution of dementia symptoms with a functional medicine approach: Optimize diet, increase and improve sleep, reduce stress, exercise regularly, stimulate brain function, analyze and replete...
HCG with Testosterone Replacement Therapy
Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) is a hormone normally found in huge amounts during pregnancy. It is made by the placenta and helps maintain pregnancy. During pregnancy women may make up to one million units of HCG daily. It is conventionally used by doctors to...
Making Sense of Different Diets
With titles from A to Z, there are hundreds of diet plans and the media headlines are full of tips on “this diet” or “that diet”. The medical literature banters back and forth about the benefits and risks of “low carb” versus “low fat” versus “high protein” as we...
Weight loss catalysts
There’s no “magic pill” when it comes to weight loss, but there are a few prescriptions that come mighty close. If you do all the right stuff to lose weight yet seem to hit a wall, then you need help. Readily available, highly effective and safe, some weight loss...
A Solution to our Healthcare Crisis
Imagine your car insurance is run like your health insurance, and you take the car in for an oil change. You use a particular service center because they accept your insurance. Before getting started, the service clerk requires a copy of your auto insurance card....
Renew Your Skin with Laser 360
If you want to take years off your skin age, reduce sun damage, smooth wrinkles, and tighten and tone, then the time is now. The “laser 360” protocol involves getting three treatments, three times in 60 days. Remarkable results from the latest generation of lasers...
Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse
Imagine the world, as we know it, has ended. A bokor sorcerer has brought forth zombies ... lots of mangy, filthy, smelly, hungry, zombies… The ensuing catastrophe has wiped out all the services we rely upon, and you wake to find no electricity, lights, phones, or...
More Studies Support Testosterone CV Safety, Debate Continues
By, Miriam E Tucker / Medscape March 16, 2015 SAN DIEGO — Two new studies attest to the absence of cardiovascular risk from testosterone-replacement therapy, but, like all of the others, neither is the large, randomized, placebo-controlled trial that experts say would...
Sublingual Immunotherapy
Allergy Relief Under Your Tongue Immunotherapy treats the cause of allergies by giving increasing doses of what a person is allergic to, which increases “immunity” or tolerance to those allergens and reduces the allergy symptoms. It is truly functional medicine in...
Reverse T3 Syndrome
Thyroid hormone controls your energy, growth and metabolism. The thyroid gland sits in the front part of the neck and makes thyroid hormone from iodine and an amino-acid called tyrosine. 80% of thyroid output is tyrosine with 4 iodine molecules attached, called T4,...
Garden of Health
We usually have a garden - a really big garden. It’s a lot of work, no doubt, but the rewards bring us back year after year. Somehow the magic of plants sprouting forth from the earth and growing into a bounty of food helps us forget all the sweat that goes into the...
Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Risk of Blood Clots
Many women are denied hormone replacement therapy (HRT) due to a fear of blood clot formation, particularly if they have had a blood clot in the past or already have a known risk factor. The risk of a blood clot in a large vein (thrombosis) is increased with the...
Integrative Cancer Treatment
The Statistics Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US and one of the leading causes around the world. According to the World Health Organization, in 2008 about 13% of deaths worldwide were due to cancer while in the US about 500,000 deaths per year are...
HCG & Weight Loss
Losing up to a pound a day for twenty makes HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) a successful yet controversial method for weight loss. It was first used for weight loss about fifty years ago after being discovered by Italian physician, Dr Simeon. There are numerous...
Heart Screening Tests
How high is your cholesterol and should you care? If it is high, yes, but if it is normal then don’t rest easy… Would you believe only 50% of people who develop heart disease are identified using total cholesterol levels alone? This is true, according to data from the...
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Heart Muscle Regenerates Once damaged, heart muscle does not recover – or does it? British scientists have reported that it may be possible for the heart to repair itself after injury, and they have discovered a protein molecule that stimulates this process. Dr Peter...
Heart Headlines
Chocolate good for heart and brain Leave it to the French to present results of a new study showing that chocolate is good for the heart and brain. From Paris, France, investigators are reporting that individuals who ate the most chocolate had a 37% lower risk of...
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Heart Health A host of recent studies examine the role of diet in the risk for heart diseases, including high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke. Some may confirm what you already knew, but others might surprise you! An observational study of over 70,000 middle...
Skin Cancer & Vitamin D
Hair Removal As Easy As 1, 2, 3…
Hints of spring are in the air and soon bare skin will be back in the daylight. If you are tired of shaving, waxing or plucking unwanted hair, then now is the time to consider laser hair removal as advanced technology has made this procedure simple, effective and...
The Heart of the Matter with Testosterone
As their natural production of testosterone (T) declines millions of American men have discovered the health benefits of replacing it with a prescription supplement. Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is booming, in part due to increased awareness, but also...
Death By Coffee
It’s 5 am and the coffee is made. Every morning, I do “coffee yoga”, that is my short yoga routine while the coffee brews. A few years ago I woke up one morning and realized I’d had coffee every day, for decades. That’s just weird, I thought, and promptly quit...
Fish Oil and Prostate Cancer – A Whopper of a Tale
Headlines this week proclaim that taking fish oil supplements leads to an increased risk of prostate cancer. “Very fishy”, I thought, since this contradicts volumes of published research that touts many health benefits of fish oil supplementation. After a careful...
Cancer Prevention
“You have cancer” are perhaps the most frightening words I ever speak and the words you fear most from your doctor. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US and one of the leading causes around the world. According to the World Health Organization, in...
Tips for Creating Your Own Diet Plan
In "Making sense of different diets" I reviewed the pros and cons of 12 diet plans, from the Atkins to the Zone. Gleaning the best from each I’ll layout what I consider to be a healthy dietary guideline, whether you are trying to lose weight, maximize athletic...
A Fire Burns Within
Inflammation plays a necessary role in our health, but is also the real culprit behind most diseases of aging, including heart disease, diabetes, cancer and dementia. Let’s explore how inflammation can be good or bad. Acute inflammation is part of our normal defense...
Is Your Heart Pumping Sludge?
Blood thickness, or viscosity, may be the single unifying risk factor for heart disease. The thicker and stickier the blood the more difficult it is for the heart to pump it through the arteries. And, it leads to more mechanical stress inflicted upon the artery wall...
Controversy in Prostate Cancer Screening
The US Preventive Services Task Force ignited a firestorm of controversy within the medical community by recently announcing that the PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood test should no longer be recommended as a routine screening tool for detection of prostate...
22 Risks for Heart Disease
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America. About 50% of people dying from heart disease have normal cholesterol. About 50% of people presenting with heart disease have zero or only one of the four main risk factors established by the American Heart...
Fatty Acids
Good fats, bad fats, trans fats, omega-3, omega-6, hydrogenated, unsaturated… it gets confusing trying to sort out just which fats we are supposed to eat and which ones to avoid like the plague. Bear with me – with a little explanation and a little chemistry you will...
Cancer Screening
Catch cancer early – that’s the point of cancer screening. During an annual check-up we focus on early detection of cancer. There are things that you can do to monitor for early cancer development and tests your doctor should recommend you consider as well. ...
A Medley of Heart Health News
Invincible Young Americans Younger Americans are not making the connection between unhealthy behaviors and future risk of heart disease and stroke. In a new survey by the American Stroke Association, 80% of young Americans questioned believe they are living healthy...
A Long Road Ahead to Heart Health
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, PA have released a sobering analysis of just how heart healthy the average American is and the results are a bit depressing. Based on the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2020 Impact Goal for good cardiovascular health...