My dear patients, as many of you already know, my daughter Anna Postolov, M.D., MPH completed her residency at Stanford Medical Hospital, and recently she also received an offer to continue her academic career in medicine by doing a fellowship in immunology-oncology-rheumatology and allergy at Stanford as well. What I’m even more excited about is that she and I recently became partners in our new company, East-West Organic Herbs, with our intention to manufacture the best in organic herbal formulas for optimum health.
We both feel so strongly that pesticides and GMOs are a major threat to our patients’ health. It applies not only to food, which I’ve already stressed the importance of over the years, but also to the herbal formulas and supplements we consume daily. I was recently reading a great article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) called “GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health” that supports our beliefs and came to realize our food is becoming a bigger concern for a variety of reasons.
They highlight several studies that show that GM foods, herbicides and pesticides may pose serious health risks to human health, with “the potential to produce unanticipated allergens” as well as being “probable and possible human carcinogens,” with growing concern for the potential hazard to infants and children.
This is the reason it is our desire to deliver to our patients the finest quality organic products that Mother Nature has to offer, ensuring they are of the highest quality and in their purest form. The NEJM podcast is also very informative and we highly suggest listening to it so that you can better understand the seriousness of the situation and our joint mission to change it.
READ the New England Journal of Medicine’s Full Article Here.