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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
Food Is Medicine: 101 Prescriptions from the Garden By Kathleen Barnes There is a certain romance to growing your own food. Whether it comes from a solitary basil plant on a window ledge, a potted tomato on an urban balcony, a small plot in a community garden or a well-manicured full-scale spread, we humans take … Read more
By Dr. Robert Thompson From What Doctors Fail to Tell Your About Iodine and Your Thyroid Now is a great time to take a deeper look at the dangerous dance of halogens in our bodies. Iodine is a halogen, like the other chemical elements, bromine, fluorine and chlorine and their derivatives bromide, fluoride and chloride. … Read more
I recently saw a cute cartoon showing a very pregnant woman conversing with her doctor, comparing calendars and attempting to select the most convenient date for the birth of the woman’s baby. “The 17th is too busy for me, how about the 18th?” the mother inquires. I’ve always believed that babies come when babies are … 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 … Read more
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
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
We’ve been having a conversation about the best possible diet on my private Facebook support group—you can join!) I’m sure there are about as many opinions on that subject as there are human beings alive. I’m not here to argue any deeply-held beliefs. In fact, I’ve learned over the years that what we eat, why … Read more
The current national uproar over the measles outbreak that has affected—gasp—100 kids nationwide is an interesting commentary on our national psyche. I‘ll tell you here from the get-go before too many people get their shorts in a twist assuming they know what I’m about to say: I’m not taking a side in the vaccinate/don’t vaccinate … Read more
It’s not just what you put in your body, but what you put on it that can have a profound effect on your health. It sometimes shocks me to see people who wouldn’t dream of eating processed foods slathering on chemical-laden moisturizers or sunscreens. What you put on your body is just as important as … Read more