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fountain of youth

Looking for the Fountain of Youth? This could be it!

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Imagine a substance so powerful that it swiftly moves through your body, soothing inflammation, repairing cell damage and pumping up your immune system, maybe even reversing the hands of time. Let me introduce you to alpha lipoic acid (ALA), which researchers at the University of California-Berkeley have discovered its antioxidant power is 400 times greater … Read more

iodine and breast health

Iodine and Fibrocystic Breasts and Breast Cancer

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From What Your Doctor Fails to Tell You About Iodine and Your Thyroid by Robert Thompson, M.D. I’m going to make a bold statement here: Iodine shortfalls coupled with bromine and other toxic halogens cause fibrocystic breast disease and breast cancer. Breast tissue contains the body’s third highest concentrations of this essential mineral, so shortfalls … Read more

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RoundUp: More Proof of Poison

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RoundUp is everywhere. It’s on your shoes, in your drinking water and in your food. This insidious poison is part of a greedy and misguided effort to completely control our food, engineered by Monsanto, to promote the sales of its GMO and RoundUp Ready seeds. The evidence is mounting. There’s no longer any question that … Read more

EPA issues Moratorium on New Neonicotinoid Products

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RL for neonicotinoid pesticides—the ones largely held responsible for the sharp decline in bee colonies around the world. The order does not affect neonicotinoids already on the market—including the massive numbers of plants sold in big box stores, including Home Depot, Lowe’s and Walmart, as well as other large garden centers. In fact, after the public … Read more

I know many people who brag that they never get a cold. I’m here to tell you that I am down with the Mother of All Colds, as sick as I’ve been in a long time, and it’s a good thing. That’s because our immune systems need challenges from time to time to keep on their metaphorical toes. It’s good to know they respond to the challenges of the ever-evolving pathogen colonies that surround us all. Source of the sickness Yes, we all know that dietary choices, environmental toxins and stress all weaken our immune systems. My hand is up -- guilty of less-than-perfect dietary choices while on my recent trip to California, long hours, not enough sleep and the stress of being at a gigantic natural products show with more than 70,000 people in attendance. Oh, yeah and probably there were quite a few cold viruses swirling around in the plane with its re-circulated air, and the airport with its tens of thousands of people coughing, sniffling and touching every surface, not to speak of that ridiculously over-packed Anaheim Convention Center full of myriad viruses from all over the world. It is almost inevitable. Yes, I do take precautions. We all do. I wash my hands carefully, avoid touching door handles (that’s why I always wear a scarf) and use hand sanitizers. There’s not much anyone can do about the fellow passenger two rows back who is hacking and coughing. The hacking passenger can’t help it either. Would you cancel a plane ticket and lose your fare just because you had a cold? I didn’t think so. Getting a cold isn’t a failure. Think if it as a challenge. I also think of a cold as a message for my body to slow down and take it easy. Sometimes we are given no choice. Favorite cold remedies Everyone has a favorite cold remedy, natural or not. All of them have some benefits, largely to minimize the symptoms while you wait for the virus to run its course. You may like sage and rose hip tea, Echinacea, chew on cloves of garlic, use a neti pot, steam vaporizer with eucalyptus, chicken soup or bone broth. Do whatever you like if it helps you feel better. Just know that your cold will most likely last a week give or take a day or two with lingering coughs that can go much longer, regardless of what you do about it. I do recommend that you let a fever run its course if it isn’t higher than 103 degrees Fahrenheit. (Anything higher can be dangerous.) Fever serves a purpose. By raising the internal temperature, the fever creates an inhospitable environment for the viruses or other pathogens that are causing the illness. I’m taking my vitamins C and D, drinking lots of fluids and spending most of the day in bed. In fact, that’s where I’m headed right now.

A Cold Is Not A Bad Thing

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I know many people who brag that they never get a cold. I’m here to tell you that I am down with the Mother of All Colds, as sick as I’ve been in a long time, and it’s a good thing. That’s because our immune systems need challenges from time to time to keep on … Read more

iodine and your thyroid

Iodine: What Happens If You Don’t Get Enough

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Excerpt from What Doctors Fail to Tell You about Iodine and Your Thyroid by Dr. Robert Thompson. Americans are experiencing a dramatic drop in iodine levels and a corresponding deterioration in our collective health. Between the early 1970s and the early 1990s, we experienced an average drop in iodine levels of 50%. In just 20 years! … Read more

iodine and your thyroid

IODINE: We All Need It and Most of Us Don’t Get Enough

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Most of us have heard of iodine, but we’d be hard-pressed to recite what it does. If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember your mother dabbing the yellow-brown liquid on a scraped knee and the vicious sting that followed! Maybe you remember that iodine is added to salt. Maybe you can identify iodine … Read more