Natural Health News Briefs: September 29, 2015

Natural Health News Briefs: September 29, 2015

Statins Age You Faster?—New Study A recently published study in the American Journal of Physiology has shown that statins—anti-cholesterol drugs—are disrupting our stem cells. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that have the ability to create different kinds of cells (such as skin, muscle, or bone cells). They are central to the body’s ability to heal […]

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Bioidentical Hormones Threatened

Bioidentical Hormones Threatened

Will the FDA allow massive drug companies to eliminate your access to compounded bioidentical hormones? Action Alerts! Recently, the FDA released a list of nominations to its “Demonstrably Difficult to Compound” (DDC) list. This list derives from section 503A of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. It is supposed to identify drugs that cannot safely […]

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ANH Responds to NIH Omega 3 Study

ANH Responds to NIH Omega 3 Study

The National Institute of Health (NIH) recently released a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) claiming that Omega 3 supplements “showed no benefits for cognitive decline. This conclusion was reached using terribly flawed data. The Alliance for Natural Health USA issued a rebuttal, based on the analysis of our Council of […]

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Wall Street Journal Ignores Over Sixteen Hundred Letters Challenging Its Journalistic Ethics

Wall Street Journal Ignores Over Sixteen Hundred Letters Challenging Its Journalistic Ethics

Should “experts” be given a pulpit without one word about their serious conflicts of interest? Action Alert! Last month the Wall Street Journal published Dr. Paul Offit’s pro-vaccine screed without disclosing his major financial conflict of interest. As we reported then, he’s the inventor of the rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq, which is now recommended for universal […]

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Federal Government-Funded Study Fails to Recognize Value of Vitamin D

VITAMIN D TOXICITY Scientific ignorance of past findings often has dire consequences for the present. In 1934, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study on vitamin D overdose.24 The authors reported on 300 patients given high doses of vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) for asthma and hay fever. The authors reported that each unit dose of […]

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Response to New York Times Opinion Piece “Don’t Take Your Vitamins”

Response to New York Times Opinion Piece “Don’t Take Your Vitamins”

The New York Times published an opinion piece by Dr. Paul Offit on June 8th, 2013 titled Don’t Take Your Vitamins.1 The article calls into question the benefit of vitamin supplementation. The opinion posits that most people get the nutrition they need from food and should not take supplemental antioxidant vitamins. Dr. Offit also suggests that vitamins could be […]

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