Our taxes paid to research a patent medicine at UCLA UCLA and others collected $500+ million for “royalties,” and gave none back to the taxpayers Our taxes will also be used to pay a patent medicine company $129,000 yearly per patient for this patent medicine The patent medicine is priced two to four times higher […]
An apple a day prevents cardiovascular disease as well as “statins”—British Medical Journal There are no adverse effects from apples—type 2 diabetes and muscle disease are caused by patent medicines called statins What’s this? Proverbs, apples, and statins? What’s a mixed bag like this doing in the Green Medicine Newsletter? By the end of this […]
James Bond’s specific martini preference is better for health The real meaning of “antioxidants” Writing in the British Medical Journal, researchers pointed out that 007—otherwise known as James Bond—was very healthy, and speculated that he might “possess insights of interest to medical science.” They focused particularly on his very specific preferences in martinis.[i] Martinis and […]
No, not bacteria this time, but still deadly. It has been killing two-thirds of all who contract the infection. Action Alert! There are ways to protect yourself. You need to know about them. Once again, US public health officials have issued a warning concerning a multiple drug-resistant infection, but this time, it isn’t bacteria that […]
But apparently covered up by the Food and Drug Administration. Action Alert! There were already plenty of reasons to avoid this highly processed ingredient like the plague. Now there’s an even better reason. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) makes up one out of every ten calories Americans eat. It is in nearly every processed food […]
This is according to the most recent data. But the FDA’s tightening of supplement regulations is for our safety, right? Action Alert! Every year, the American Association of Poison Control Center’s National Poison Data System (NPDS) releases an annual report that tracks deaths and serious adverse events as a result of poisoning from a wide […]
What you don’t know about this class of drugs can ruin your health. It can even kill you. We’ve written before about the dangers of acid blockers and how, in many cases, they are likely exacerbating stomach pain while causing serious disease. New research gives us even more reason to stay away from these dangerous […]
It isn’t just people who are affected by the Standard American Diet (SAD). It’s plants as well. And when we eat these non-nutritious plants—or the animals that are fed on them—it is our health that suffers. Just as the Standard American Diet helps destroy the beneficial bacteria and fungi on which our bodies depend for […]
The long-awaited revision of FDA guidance rules for new supplements is finally here. It is very bad news. Highest-level Action Alert! We normally publish our newsletter on Tuesday, but are sending out this issue today because of its urgency. What we are dealing with here is whether the supplement industry is allowed to innovate and […]