If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that you have to be very careful who you trust and what you believe, especially where your health is concerned. Because sadly, the medical industry is largely captured by pharma and no one wants to bite the hand that feeds them (or risk losing a lucrative career). Plus, many practitioners don’t even know they’ve been very carefully programmed! Our doctors come out of medical...

  I recently stopped into a local pharmacy to get my cat some melatonin (my poor senior cat Max has dementia and the vet recommended melatonin to help him sleep instead of yowling all night!).  When I entered the pharmacy, looking around to check the aisle listings for what I needed, the clerk at the front of the store asked if I as there for a flu shot and I said no.  Then as I...

  When you think of "stones" in your body, most people will think of kidney stones, gallstones or maybe bladder stones. But those aren't the only areas of your body that are prone to stones—because you can also get stones in your tonsils! To understand how that can happen, it's important to look at these humble little sentinels in the back of your throat called your tonsils. The humble sentinels Your tonsils are part of...

  Back in 1980 when I was starting my first year of college, I got the one and only urinary tract infection (UTI) that I’ve ever had in my life. And the experience was SO horrible, I still remember it vividly 44 years later. I was taking exams and kept getting this incredible urge to pee. I think the exam proctor suspected I may be cheating and had somebody hiding in the bathroom giving me...

  Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt noticed the onslaught of signs and advertisements literally everywhere telling you to “Get your flu shot!” And, right about this time of year, studies of flu shot effectiveness are typically conducted…and whether you hear about those studies on the news depends on the results of said studies. After all, the pharma-funded mainstream media can’t risk ticking off their primary source of advertising revenue with...

  I’d like to talk today about what has been considered one of the inevitabilities of life. Gray hair. Ah, yes. Few subjects will make a woman cringe as much as the thought of going gray, and the hair color industry is very happy that you feel that way. Of course, men go gray too, but it’s long been said that gray hair makes a man look distinguished and a woman look old. I’ll let...