By: Deborah Ballard, MD, MPH, Duke Integrative Medicine I have been a physician for over 30 years. I have known thousands of people as patients. Most patients who seek out an integrative medicine physician want advice on how to live a long, healthy life. Of course, I always talk about the basics of sleep, nutrition, physical activity, avoiding toxins, and stress ...

By Deborah Ballard, MD, MPH. Duke Integrative Medicine. One of the most sobering realizations of the modern era is that no matter how many technologically sophisticated drugs and medical devices we humans develop, we are still at the mercy of germs. Germs, or microbes, those microscopic beasties that coexist alongside and inside of us, sometimes, like Covid-19, manage to ...