Can alternative medicine be used as good medicine? What are supplements and vitamins? How do you take them? Will supplements produce side effects? Will supplements interact with other drugs? What is the right dosage for me? What are the most noted zinc-supplement benefits?

Today, on The Good Doctors, holistic practitioner Dr. Lesley Braun, joins us to chat about the right dosage, and how what other things you are consuming or your health condition can also impact how much supplements you should take.

Listen in, as we discuss alternative medicine or what we refer to as “good medicine” and throw some light on how you can safely use vitamins and supplements while avoiding supplement side effects and ensuring the maximum possible benefits for your mind and body. Stay tuned, as we discuss how dosages can “make” or “break” your therapy.

 

About Dr. Lesley Braun

Lesley Braun is the Director of the Blackmore’s Institute which is the research, education and advisory arm of Blackmore’s with activities in Australia but also internationally. She is an Honorary Associate Professor of Integrative Medicine within the National Institute of Complementary Medicine (University of Western Sydney), adjunct Senior Research Fellow within the Monash/Alfred Psychiatric Research centre and has held positions at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne as a research pharmacist and the Department of Medicine and Department of Surgery at Monash University as a Senior Research Fellow.

Lesley is the main author of the bestselling textbook ‘Herbs and Natural Supplements – an evidence based guide’ –published by Elsevier, founding editor-in-chief of a new international journal by Elsevier entitled ‘ Advances in Integrative Medicine’, a regular columnist for the Australian Journal of Pharmacy (AJP), lecturer at Monash University and RMIT and regularly presents at national and international conferences on various topics within the large field of integrative medicine, in addition to her own complementary medicine research projects.

One of her chief areas of expertise is investigating and working at the interface between complementary and conventional medicine (medicine, surgery and pharmacy) from multiple perspectives such as efficacy, safety, patient and physician perspectives, regulation and practice both within the community and hospital settings.

00:50     Safety of supplements

01:55     Dr.Lesley Braun

03:26     Complementary medicine product

04:25     AUST L

06:24     Side effects

07:12     Doses

08:35     Negative or positive effect on the medication

09:39     CoQ10 levels

11:42     Zinc supplementation level

13:20     Anti-depressants

15:00     The pharmacists and the naturopaths

16:58     Operations

18:50     Fish or Ginko biloba, vitamin C, vitamin E

20:25     Dosage is really important

21:35     Vitamin C

23:55     Information and links to some sites

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