Health Transparency

Research done in 455 individuals with osteoarthritis Niacinamide eliminated or significantly reduced osteoarthritis pain in the large majority of individuals Niacinamide can prevent joint replacement surgery Why cigarette smoking also prevents joint replacement surgery Sometime in the 1980s (don’t remember exactly when) a 74-year-old man (we’ll call him Joe) came to Tahoma Clinic bringing copies […]

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 […]

If you would like to download and print a pdf version of Green Medicine, you can do so here. Now you can take Green Medicine wherever you go. If you do not have Adobe Reader, please download here. In this issue: You Can Prevent and Cure Gestational Diabetes, and Lower Your Child’s Risk of Autism! The Almost […]

Xanthurenic acid (XA)—a tryptophan metabolite—is high in serum in gestational diabetes Xanthurenic acid binds insulin, impeding it’s action Vitamin B6 lowers xanthurenic acid levels to normal In two 1970s research studies, 86% and 100% of women with gestational diabetes normalized their blood sugar in two weeks by taking vitamin B6 Gestational diabetes increases autism risk […]

Vitamin D and eye health Myopia (nearsightedness), keratoconus, cataract, optic nerve atrophy, retinitis pigmentosa—all treatable with vitamin D Do children who need glasses really need vitamin D? Last month’s Green Medicine reported a “breakthrough” publication[i] from a major American university (in collaboration with a group from a Chinese university) about ultraviolet blood irradiation, a decades-old, […]