Vitamins and Dietary Supplements

Your patient is a 52-year-old man who isn’t getting enough vitamin D. He tells you that because of a fear of skin cancer, he tries to avoid unprotected exposure to sunlight and that he struggles to find...

New research suggests followers of the Mediterranean diet may not be consuming enough dairy and calcium for heart health. Would you consider recommending additional dairy to your patients who follow this...

The consequences of B12 deficiency are far reaching and have hematologic, neurologic, and orthopedic implications.

Jack is a 62-year-old committed smoker. He was recently taken off the heart transplant list when it was discovered that he was still smoking.

Alison is a 67-year-old woman with osteoporosis who takes daily calcium supplements and exercises 5 days a week. Because she has high levels of homocysteine in her blood, you recommend that she also add...