Or watch the short video.
Dr. Mercola lays it on the line: A comprehensive study shows that flu shots don’t work. In fact, they can cause extreme harm. There’s a better way to protect yourself.
Watch the avoid-the-flu-shot video or read the transcript here: (more…)
by ken winston caine
Reliable, detailed monographs on medicinal herbs are available free, online, from the North Carolina Consortium on Natural Medicines.
They come in three flavors:
1. For health professionals.
2. For everyone else.
3. For growers.
You can access any of them.
They are limited to herbs that can be grown in North Carolina — so you won’t find an extensive list of medicinal herbs here. But the information you will find is very thorough and well vetted.
Find them here: (more…)
by ken winston caine
Want to lose 20 pounds in the next 30 days?
Make your diet boring. Boring and simple, says Tim Ferris, best-selling author of The Four-Hour Workweek.
That doesn’t mean no variety or tasteless meals, Ferris explains.
He provides four simple rules for losing weight quickly, while building muscle, and — exercise is NOT one of them. (Click the link below to see all four rules — and the exact diet he is using.)
The rules look nutritionally sound. And they are based on results from scientific studies.
Why make your diet boring? Because it’s easier to follow that way, he says.
“The most successful dieters, regardless of whether their goal is muscle gain or fat loss, eat the same few meals over and over again,” he writes in a blog post at (more…)
by ken winston caine
Naturopath Leslie Taylor maintains an extraordinary database of known information about medicinal herbs on the rain-tree.com website. A nice feature: It includes the scientific (and other) citations.
Much of the information comes from Taylor’s book, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs.
To look up an herb, go to: (more…)
by ken winston caine
USA Today reports that new parents are leading the fight against our widespread exposure to health-robbing, mutagenic toxins in plastics.
In one of the more comprehensive and serious examinations of the health threats from plastics and plastic food containers, USA Today reporters Elizabeth Weise and Liz Szabo, note in the copyright story, among other things:
• “Parents, activists and many scientists are concerned that if a baby drinks from a bottle made with [plastic chemicals] bisphenol A [BPA] or gums a toy made with phthalates, he or she could suffer serious, even permanent, harm.”
• “In December, the National Toxicology Program, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, concluded that one form of phthalate, called di(2-ethylhexyl), or DEHP, used in intravenous tubing, catheters and other plastic medical equipment, could pose a risk to the proper development of baby boys’ reproductive tracts.”
• “Nearly every American has been exposed. A 2000 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found
by ken winston caine
I have just made the most remarkable 3,000-year-old discovery that instantly soothes aching, inflamed muscles and nerves and relieves pain and inflammation.
And can’t believe that it’s taken me all this time. I must have first read about this technique at least 30 years ago and “learned it” again in numerous herbal medicine courses over the years.
The forgotten, ancient medical miracle used thousands of years ago in India and China and in other folk-medicine traditions in more recent centuries?
The ginger compress.
Just a hot, moist pack of ginger placed over acutely inflamed muscles and nerves.
I’d never tried it, having lost faith in herbal compresses years ago when I found that most I experimented with seemed to have no discernible healing power beyond the effect of the moist heat. Not so with the ginger compress. It really works. REALLY works. Fast.
It costs pennies, takes seconds to make. You probably already have the makings on hand in your house if you raid the spice cabinet and improvise a bit. And it instantly draws away the swelling and pain… Even better, the effect is lasting.
I’ll tell you how I made it in a moment. (more…)
Let me share this urgent message I received today:
Tell Congress to shift funding from chemical-based agriculture to more environmentally friendly organics!
“According to the subsidy data from the Environmental Working Group, one giant cotton farm collected $2.95 million through crop subsidies in 2005, nearly as much money as the federal government spent on its primary research program for organic agriculture last year — $3 million.”
– The New York Times, July 4, 2007
“The Debate Over Subsidizing Snacks”
Dear Supporter,
New York Times reporters aren’t the only ones poring over the information in EWG’s Farm Subsidy Database. The unfair funding distributions have everyone’s attention and EWG Action Fund’s Grow Organics Campaign (www.ewg.org/organics/petition) for organics funding is taking off. Thanks to your generous support, we surpassed our goal and raised a total of $45,000! These vital funds will help our staff meet with lawmakers to gain support for crucial changes in the Farm Bill.
But organics aren’t safe yet. In just a two short weeks the full House will vote on a new Farm Bill, which could be the first to include significant funding for organics. To make this happen, our Representatives need to hear from us! Add your voice to the Grow Organics petition today at www.ewg.org/organics/petition.
More than 17,000 of you have signed on to level the playing field for organic farmers with the petition so we’re more than halfway to our goal! Now is the time to (more…)
by ken winston caine
New Mexico’s “health-freedom” Senate Bill 18 got bumped off the rails just as it was picking up speed, due to some behind-the-scenes political maneuvering.
The New Mexico Medical Board had vowed to stop the act which would have clarified that traditional, cultural, complementary and alternative healing are not subject to regulation by state licensing boards. But the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the Medical Board arguments and sent the bill to the Senate floor with a “do pass” recommendation.
And while the bill was on the Senate agenda to be debated in several sessions, it was never heard.
Wynn Werner, one of the driving forces behind the legislation and a founder of the New Mexico Complementary and Alternative Medicine Project which promoted it, explained, in this memo: (more…)
by ken winston caine
You may have seen the headlines.
JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, is promoting its publication of a meta analysis that concludes that use of antioxidant vitamins A, beta carotene and E, may send you to the grave sooner than otherwise..
It was a big analysis — comparing studies involving more than 232,000 people — and it makes big, troubling assumptions that should be challenged. But the media isn’t challenging it. Rather it’s gobbling up the suggestion that “Vitamins can kill you” just as enthusiastically as Linus Pauling gobbled Vitamin C. (He kept a handful in his jacket pocket and popped a couple every few minutes.)
A “meta analysis” is a study that mathematically cross-compares the results of multiple studies conducted by various researchers on various populations and under varying conditions. By its very nature, its conclusions can be suspect.
This one is no exception.
Some questions to ask in this case:
- Were the (more…)
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