16 Aug
2022
16 Aug
2022
Monkeypox: A Public Health Emergency?
…and how natural medicine can help. Recently, the federal government declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency. This has caused some alarm among the population—are we entering another COVID situation, with lockdowns and efforts at forced vaccination? Are there natural interventions that can help protect us from this new virus? Contextualizing the threat from […]
16 Aug
2022
Health Begins in the Mouth – Health from the Ground Up #4
Explore the often-ignored connections between oral health and chronic disease. Conventional doctors are starting to come around to what integrative practitioners have known for a long time, and that is the crucial importance of the gut microbiome to overall health. But what conventional doctors and dentists continue to miss is that gut health starts in […]
16 Aug
2022
Calling All Rebels
From Organic Consumers Association Now is the time to educate, search out new friends and allies, even in the most unlikely places, improve our health, strengthen our resolve, and prepare for any eventuality. A new 21st Century populist counter-culture and politics, potentially strong enough to overturn business as usual, is starting to emerge. Left and […]
16 Aug
2022
The Health Benefits of Echinacea
From Joseph Mercola, DO Echinacea is also known as purple coneflower. It is one of the hardiest perennial plants indigenous to America. Much of the knowledge that we have about the medicinal use of echinacea is derived from Native American use. Samples of the plant have been found in Lakota Sioux village sites dating from the […]
11 Aug
2022
Are You Fat? There’s a Drug for That
It turns out losing weight is simple—just take a dangerous drug for the rest of your life! According to the CDC, over 40 percent of the US adult population is obese. This has huge implications for health, as obesity is linked with diabetes, stroke, heart disease, and certain types of cancer. You may have heard […]
11 Aug
2022
Shedding Toxic Overload—Health from the Ground Up #3b
How to optimize your body’s detoxification systems. The average person carries 91 toxic chemicals in their blood and urine. This is a testament to the fact that our exposure to new-to-nature chemicals is greater than it’s ever been during our evolution and how crucial it is to support our body’s ability to neutralize and remove […]
11 Aug
2022
Project Inundate the EPA
From Moms Across America Together, we educate and empower mothers and others with actions and solutions to create healthy communities! We are down to the wire with the EPA and glyphosate. This past week the EPA appealed to the Supreme Court to extend the deadline for their decision on whether or not to renew or […]
11 Aug
2022
25 Health Tips for 25 Years
From Joseph Mercola, DO To commemorate 25 years of offering the most up-to-date health information available, I summarize 25 of my favorite health tips. To optimize your metabolic flexibility, consider implementing time-restricted eating and strength training. Blood flow restriction (BFR) training is an excellent method that can provide maximum benefits without the risk of injury […]
10 Aug
2022
Removing Toxins—Health from the Ground Up #3
Strategies for protecting yourself from the thousands of harmful chemicals that inundate the modern world. A recent study concluded that “Widespread exposure to toxic environmental chemicals threatens healthy human reproduction.” We reported last year on research showing that exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals has caused sperm counts to drop almost 60 percent since 1973; these […]