Gregory A. Plotnikoff
Penny George Institute for Health and Healing
16 Papers
55 Citations
Gregory A. Plotnikoff is an academic researcher from Penny George Institute for Health and Healing. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vitamin D and neurology & Health care. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 16 publications.
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The impact of integrative medicine on pain management in a tertiary care hospital.
TL;DR: The formal provision of inpatient integrative medicine had a significant impact on pain scores for hospitalized patients, reducing self-reported pain by more than 50%, without placing patients at increased risk of adverse effects.
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Global Advances in Health and Medicine
David Riley,Jason Jishun Hao,Helmut Kiene,Gunver S. Kienle,Michele Mittelman,Gregory A. Plotnikoff +5 more
- 20 Aug 2012
TL;DR: Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHMJ), a new scholarly medical journal, believes that solutions in healthcare will be ones that accelerate the application of global advances in health and medicine, resulting in improved population-health management, healthcare delivery, and patient outcomes.
Three Measurable and Modifiable Enteric Microbial Biotransformations Relevant to Cancer Prevention and Treatment
Gregory A. Plotnikoff
- 01 May 2014
TL;DR: The intent is to introduce the reader to clinically relevant microbial biochemistry plus the emerging evidence that links these to both carcinogenesis and treatment, plus the evidence base to guide counseling for potentially helpful dietary adjustments.
Impact of Vitamin D Deficiency on the Productivity of a Health Care Workforce
TL;DR: Low vitamin D status is associated with reduced employee work productivity and may represent a low-cost, high-return program to mitigate risk factors and health conditions that drive total employer health care costs.
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The human microbiome.
Gregory A. Plotnikoff,David Riley +1 more
- 01 May 2014
TL;DR: Dysbiosis was coined to describe microbial ecological imbalance in the gut by Ilya Ilyich Metchnikov, co-winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Medicine, who noted that “the dependence of the intestinal microbes on the food makes it possible to adapt measures to modify the flora in the authors' bodies and to replace harmful microbes by useful microbes.
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