Tips for choosing non-toxic toys for your family and friends this holiday season. ‘Tis the season! With so many choices, it can be difficult to select gifts that satisfy our family and loved ones but are also free of dangerous ingredients and contaminants. It is important to do your due diligence as a consumer, since […]
The medical rationale confirmed by new review of available evidence. From our friends at ANH-International. Have you taken your vitamin C today? If you have, will you take it again, perhaps more than twice or three times, to maintain beneficial amounts of this remarkable, multi-functional nutrient in your bloodstream for more of the day, or […]
Real COVID prevention means addressing the obesity and chronic disease epidemic, but the feds don’t have a clue. COVID has killed more than 750,000 Americans and caused more than three million hospitalizations. Yet the virus is not an indiscriminate killer. We know that people with underlying conditions like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are far […]
Organic milk has a better nutrient profile and fewer contaminants than conventional milk, but loopholes are allowing fraudulent “organic” milk on the market. Action Alert! The fall meeting of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) included a discussion of the Origin of Livestock rule, which has been in limbo since 2015. The rule attempts to […]
We’re not giving up on protecting access to the compounded bioidentical hormones that millions of women rely on to stay healthy. Help us take a stand. Action Alert! As we’ve been reporting for some time, the FDA is poised to eliminate consumer access to compounded bioidentical hormones like estriol, progesterone, testosterone, and others. We’re working with our […]
Ronald Hoffman, MD, on the threat to integrative medicine’s future in a climate of censorship and black-and-white thinking on health and well-being. In the early twentieth century, the Flexner Report asserted the preeminence of the “biomedical model” over traditional folk medicines that were still widely embraced by Americans. Medical research was advancing in the wake […]
…by focusing almost exclusively on masking, social distancing, and vaccinations and ignoring what sick people could do at home to avoid hospitalization. The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in many ways, but in other ways it is just like any other illness. Yet in addressing this illness, public health authorities have inexplicably departed from standard medical […]
Give a big “Thank You” to those who work to protect homeopathy on Capitol Hill. Earlier this year, we supported a sign-on letter from Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) calling on the FDA to clarify how the agency will ensure continued access to important homeopathic medicines. This was in response to a major assault by the […]
It is an ideal time to rethink whether this new, heavily politicized health system is something we really want, or really need. Is it actually fit-for-purpose, or even for our benefit? Or is its raison d’être more about benefitting undisclosed but fairly conspicuous businesses and individuals? This article was adapted from a recent piece from our friends […]
This powerful anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and life-extending supplement could face the FDA’s axe. We need to stop it. Action Alert! Resveratrol, a plant-derived polyphenol found in grapes, could be eliminated in supplement form like pyridoxamine (B6) was a number of years ago due to an FDA back-channel that lets Big Pharma turn supplements into drugs. If […]