Years after an environmental catastrophe linked to seeds coated in dangerous pesticides, a local community continues to pay the price. Action Alert! Last year, we reported on an environmental catastrophe linked to the use of pesticide-coated seeds, which were utilized to produce ethanol at a plant in Mead, Nebraska. The toxic byproduct of this process […]
Help us draw national attention to the many benefits of incorporating dietary supplements into your lifestyle. Action Alert! Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) have introduced a resolution to designate October 22-28 as Natural Product Industry Week. This is a rare, yet crucial, instance of Congress recognizing the power of dietary supplements to […]
Despite decades of research linking pesticide drift to health harm, regulation remains weak and leaves the most vulnerable with few protections. From Environmental Health News By Claudia Meléndez Salinas Yanely Martínez was at work in 2017 when she received a phone call from her son’s school in Greenfield, an agricultural city in California’s Salinas Valley. […]
Understanding the degenerative forces that are holding back a truly regenerative approach to health and agriculture. From Organic Consumers Association My usual response to the question “What is Regenerative Food and Farming?” goes something like this: Regenerative agriculture and animal husbandry is the next and higher stage of organic food and farming, not only free […]
Once again, the feds are about to hand a ground-breaking, life-extending supplement to Big Pharma so it can be turned into an expensive monopoly drug. Action Alert! For a few months now, we’ve been telling you about the threat to nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) supplements, which are on the cutting edge of lifespan research. NMN supplements […]
It’s no secret that sitting all day is a problem. Most of us do it too much, often spending more hours sitting than sleeping, a sedentary lifestyle responsible for one out of every 14 deaths. The biggest chunk of sedentary time, the eight or more hours spent at work, is also a big area for […]
From Moms Across America By Michelle Pero, MD Infertility, surrogacy, changing family structures, low milk production, inhospitable and toxic environments, stress, and a myriad of other factors are impacting breastfeeding babies. From the perspective of the baby biota, moms are the microbial stewardesses, passing on the collection of microorganisms that will direct much of the […]
From Ronald Hoffman, MD Each year we make a big to-do about American Heart Month. We’re reminded to eat well, exercise, get our cholesterol and blood pressure checked, and see if we suffer from blood sugar problems. And yet, trends are concerning. We’re making progress in preventing heart attacks, and we’re keeping people with heart disease […]
Women coping with menopause have been ignored by mainstream medicine for years, and now the FDA is making it worse by threatening to ban estriol and other medicines that can support women’s health. Action Alert! A recent article in The New York Times draws attention to a number of critical issues centering on the idea […]