From Ronald Hoffman, MD We were recently regaled with headlines like these: “Melatonin Poisonings in Kids Jumped 530% in 10 Years” (Medpage Today) “Pediatric Hospitalizations Due to Accidental Melatonin Overdoses Spiked in Last Decade, CDC Says” (People) “Melatonin Supplements Are Poisoning Children” (Gizmodo) This is in the context of a Congressional campaign to place onerous requirements on […]
From Moms Across America A historic win today! From the Center for Food Safety: Today, in a historic victory for farm workers and the environment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and its represented farmworker and conservation clients by overturning the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision […]
Supplement restrictions are moving forward in Congress. Lawmakers need to hear that this is a bad idea. Action Alert! This week, the Senate HELP Committee voted to approve its FDA user fee bill with mandatory dietary supplement product listing attached. Requiring supplement companies to register all of their products with the FDA sounds innocuous but will have […]
A study found that common drugs contain PFAS “forever chemicals”, and the EPA is working hard…to protect these drug makers. Action Alert! More than 131 million Americans—66 percent of adults—take a prescription drug. Most of these drugs come with substantial side effects, but you probably didn’t know that many of them also contain PFAS “forever” […]
From Joseph Mercola, DO Interest in curcumin is growing as the discovery of new delivery systems increases the bioavailability of the compound. Curcumin is the major biologically active polyphenolic compound of turmeric. Turmeric has long been used in Indian cuisine and medicinal use in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine. Curcumin is the compound that […]
From Moms Across America If you do not subscribe to Arthur Firstenbergs’s newsletter titled International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and In Space, we highly recommend that you do. In his latest newsletter, he touches upon many important subjects. We wish to bring to your attention the issue of studies showing cellphone use contributes to […]
From Mongabay Plants build themselves from sunlight, water, and soil. And, as it turns out, what crops “eat” can influence the nutrients on our own plates. A recent study, published in the journal PeerJ, compared the nutritional content of food crops grown using conventional versus regenerative farming practices — those that build the soil by using cover […]
Recent media reports employ familiar scare tactics to convince us that melatonin is unsafe—and they are just as wrong as ever. Action Alert! The headlines paint a bleak picture. “Thousands of kids are getting sick from downing melatonin pills.” The number of children “overdosing” on melatonin has “skyrocketed” in recent years, according to other headlines. […]
The FDA’s advisory committee dealt a blow to the agency’s plan to ban compounded glutathione—but the fight is far from over. Action Alert! Earlier this week, the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) met to discuss whether it would recommend compounded glutathione be banned or not. As we reported that day, the great news is […]
From Organic Consumers Association Growing up on the Gulf of Mexico and living through several intense hurricanes, I became familiar with the term “eye of the storm.” The “eye” refers to the interlude or relative calm between the two phases of a hurricane, when the center of the storm is passing directly overhead. I was […]