Custom Health NYC: Dr. Gigi Chow

04/02/2015

I will be on maternity leave until Mid-May. Please feel free to email me at customhealth.nyc@gmail.com if you need to get a hold of me. See you soon!

07/16/2014

Never too late to work on our muscles...
and BMI (body mass index) is so so outdated as a measure of health and fitness.

A long-term study of more than 3,600 seniors found that more muscle mass was a better predictor of survival than was moderate body mass index. Christopher Intagliata reports  

06/25/2014

Another reason to avoid pesticides: Exposure to Pesticides by Pregnant Moms Linked to Increased Risk for Autism

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/24/pesticide-exposure-during-pregnancy-may-increase-autism-risk/

Scientists have long hypothesized that chemicals found in our environment play a role in causing autism. Research published this week in Environmental Health Perspectives supports that theory, finding children whose mothers are exposed to agricultural pesticides during pregnancy may be at increased…

06/24/2014

Q: So how much pomegranate juice is in an 59 oz of Minute Maid Pomegranate Blueberry Juice??

A: 0.3% or about 2 teaspoons.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-says-coca-cola-can-be-sued-over-juice-drink-label/2014/06/12/20e42536-f240-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html

04/18/2014

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_29784.cfm

Vermont Senate Votes 26-2 for GMO Labeling For related articles and more information, please visit OCA's Politics and Democracy page and our Millions Against Monsanto page.

04/03/2014

How positive thinking can change the physiology of the brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvhCLXEeSDQ

Mark Robert Waldman is a therapist and an Associate Fellow at the Center for Spirituality and the Mind, Universi ty of Pennsylvania, where he currently co...

01/03/2014

For those of you who are unclear, including myself until I read this, March 31st is the deadline for Affordable Care Act/Obamacare

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/6-key-obamacare-dates-to-watch-for-in-2014/

What to expect from the Affordable Care Act in the coming year: major policy changes and political markers

01/03/2014

More than 200 Harvard Medical School students and sympathetic faculty are intent on exposing and curtailing the industry influence in their classrooms and laboratories.

01/01/2014

Happy 2014 everyone!!!

12/24/2013

I want to wish everyone a safe, happy and healthy holiday season!

Recently, my 94 years-young patient wonderfully recited an Emily Dickinson poem to me and I think this is a great time to share it :)

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

12/17/2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAKaM330xzg

We've been told that medications to lower cholesterol can save lives. And now over 40 million worldwide take drugs to lower their cholesterol. But what if th...

12/17/2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDVf-00w5gk

Is the role of cholesterol in heart disease really one of the biggest myths in the history of medicine? For the last four decades we've been told that satura...