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Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a silent killer. Millions of Americans have it and don’t know they have it, so they don’t treat it, placing themselves at risk for heart attacks and strokes, the leading cause of death in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 67 million … Read more
Dear Readers: Once again, I am experiencing a spate of friends who have cancer. Obviously, they are frightened. They are also being deluged with the “best and greatest cancer cures” by well-meaning friends, who often delight in sharing nightmarish cancer tales. They are very open to alternative therapies, but they are afraid to tell their … Read more
Excerpted from The Calcium Lie II: What Your Doctor Still Doesn’t Know by Dr. Robert Thompson and Kathleen Barnes, Take Charge Books, 2013. The Calcium Lie has led us to a host of health problems of untold proportions. We’ll go into them in greater detail in the coming chapters, but here is the foundation of … Read more
From What Doctors Fail to Tell you About Iodine and Your Thyroid by Robert Thompson, M.D. Iodine deficiency is the leading cause of preventable mental retardation worldwide. What if a pregnant woman consumed a handful of pills that costs a few cents and protected her baby against mental deficiency and a crippling disease called cretinism? That’s … Read more
It’s a story we hear nearly every day: a man in his mid-fifties develops chest pain and shortness of breath. A visit to his doctor leads to an electrocardiogram (EKG), then an exercise stress test, perhaps later a visit to a cardiologist, more tests, and finally a diagnosis: blocked coronary arteries that require arterial stents … Read more
By Dr. Hyla Cass and Kathleen Barnes, authors of 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health: A Take Charge Plan for Women Are hormone swings making your life, and your family’s, a living hell? PMS is a real medical condition, as are perimenopause and menopause, low thyroid function and adrenal fatigue. These conditions can sap your energy and … Read more
If you listen to Big Pharma’s brainwashing campaign, statin drugs are the best thing since sliced bread. Everybody ought to pop them daily, just because…. Because WHAT? Well, Big Pharma tells us, we need to keep our cholesterol levels low so we don’t have clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes. OK. Nobody wants these, but, … Read more
If you’re anything like me, music plays an important part in your life. I walk around humming singing out loud, serenading my horses in the barn and my dogs over their morning cookies. Pandora plays in the background much of my workday and occasionally I stop to look up the lyrics so I can belt … Read more
Doctors make mistakes all the time. They’re human, after all. But when an entire medical profession and pharmaceutical establishment labels a simple condition as cancer, causing untold emotional, physical and financial harm, we have to look at the motivation. All the way back in 2012, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the once impeccable Journal … Read more
Two recent studies confirm that those who eat the most chocolate have lower blood pressure and lower risk of heart disease and stroke.