A Compilation of Writings
from Our Medical Director
Dr. Leonard Smith serves as medical director for Advanced Naturals and is
involved extensively in the research and formulation of new products.
 
Dr. Smith is a
prominent Board-Certified, general, gastrointestinal and vascular surgeon who
had a successful private practice for 25 years. In addition to his active
surgery practice, he also incorporated supplementation, lifestyle, diet, detoxification,
stress management, and exercise into many of the therapies he would prescribe. Many of his patients with cancer, cardiovascular
disease, and other serious illnesses did so well under his treatment regimes that
he began to devote most of his career to foundational health care and preventive
medicine.
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Probiotic use for digestive conditions has seen a gradual increase in dosage over
the past couple decades. Doses of 7 billion were thought to be very high just ten
years ago, while average doses were about 250 million. Today, an average probiotic
dose is around 1–5 billion with high-dose probiotics ranging from 30 to 450 billion
or more. This increase comes with improvements... Read More >>
Would you be surprised to know that eating a high-fat meal and/or high-sugar meal
causes your arteries to not work in a normal manner? Let’s say we start the day
with either coffee with cream/sugar and donuts, or same coffee/sugar with eggs and
toast with butter/jam. And then for lunch or supper, we eat meals with high-fat
meat, bread and butter, a baked potato with sour cream and butter along with an
alcoholic drink (or even ice tea with sugar). Then we finish the meal with a nice
dessert. Read More >>
Antibiotics are overused for conditions they do not treat, such as viral infections
like cold or flu. Antibiotic overuse is leading to antibiotic resistance, one of
the major challenges facing medicine today. But antibiotic resistance is not the
only consequence of the average 10 – 20 courses of antibiotics children receive
by the age of 18. An under-appreciated negative effect of too many antibiotics is
the killing of beneficial bacteria, as highlighted in the recent Nature journal
article... Read More >>
The immune system is a complex organization of coordinated responses to “foreign”
invaders in the body. Foreign invaders include microbes—bacteria, fungus, parasites
and viruses—as well as toxins and even food. As a matter of fact, one major role
of the immune system is to not respond to food. As is seen with food allergies,
however, the immune system is not always successful at this...Read More >>
A recent study published in the journal PLoS Biology has found that Candida albicans
forms two distinct biofilm types according to what form the Candida is in—the sexual
or asexual form.1 A biofilm is a protective polysaccharide matrix in which microbial
populations exist and are able to hide from the immune system and antimicrobials.
As it turns out, when Candida is in an asexual form, it produces a biofilm that
is impermeable to antifungals, antibodies and white blood cells. Read More >>
 
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Leonard Smith, M.D.
About Leonard Smith M.D.
Leonard Smith, M.D. is a prominent general, gastrointestinal
and vascular surgeon, as well as an expert on nutrition
and natural supplementation. For the past 25 years, Dr.
Smith has studied countless holistic medical programs,
including those focusing on nutrition, exercise, chelation,
stress management and the relevance of mental and spiritual
attitude with regard to healing.
Acknowledging
the effectiveness of whole organic foods and nutritional
supplementation, Dr. Smith strives to stay on the cutting
edge of research and keep pace with the latest advances
in the field of functional nutrition. In his role as
medical director for Advanced Naturals, he is involved
extensively in the research and formulation of new products.
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