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Five ‘Simple Yet Effective’ Tips to Boost Your Longevity

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Updated: Apr 10, 2024
Scientists Warn Bird Flu Outbreak Could Be 100 Times Worse Than COVID

So far, every instance of fearmongering about the possibility of a lethal bird flu has turned out to be false. That’s why I wrote my New York Times best-selling book “The Great Bird Flu Hoax,” 15 years ago in 2009. Four years earlier, in 2005, then-President George Bush spent over $7 billion dollars on preparations […]

Updated: Apr 9, 2024
Jet Lag Hurts Both Mental and Physical Performance

Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published February 23, 2017. Jet lag, also known as flight fatigue, time zone change syndrome or desynchronosis, occurs when travel across time zones disrupts your internal body clock, resulting in mental, emotional and physical symptoms such as:1,2 Daytime sleepiness and lethargy followed by nighttime insomnia […]

Updated: Apr 8, 2024
‘Long Vax’ Finally Enters Lexicon

An estimated 6.4% of U.S. adults have experienced symptoms of long COVID, a term used to describe a complex disorder that persists for three or more months after contracting COVID-19.1 While long COVID has been extensively covered in the media, millions more suffer from long vax — a condition with nearly identical symptoms to long […]

Updated: Apr 5, 2024
The Story of Rachel Carson: How Her Love for Nature Changed the Way Humans View the Environment

Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published March 4, 2017. One of the most celebrated American writers of her time, Rachel Carson, achieved the impossible: convincing a society intent on mastering and controlling nature that we, as humans, must view ourselves as being part of nature rather than separate from it. […]

Updated: Apr 4, 2024
Pressured

Modern technocrats have found lots of ways to ruin our food — like rapid heating of milk up to 240 degrees, zapping with microwaves, irradiating with radioactive materials, spray drying at high temperatures, extruding at high temperatures and pressures and embalming with sugar. Now a new technology has come on the scene: ultra-high pressure applied […]

Updated: Apr 4, 2024
Why Are so Many Young People Getting Cancer?

According to the latest statistics, global cancer incidence is on the rise, especially among younger people. Between 1990 and 2019, incidence of 29 cancers rose worldwide in those younger than 50, with rates rising faster among women. Cancers on the rise include breast, uterine, prostate, lung, colorectal, pancreatic and stomach cancers. Between 2016 and 2019, […]

Updated: Apr 1, 2024
'Dissolving Illusions' 10th Anniversary Edition Challenges Vaccine Narratives

In this interview, Dr. Suzanne Humphries discusses the release of the 10th anniversary edition of “Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History,” one of my favorite books on vaccines, originally published in 2013. I was honored to write the foreword for the update of this classic. In that book, Humphries details how vaccine science […]

Updated: Mar 31, 2024
A Body in Motion Stays Healthier Longer

Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published October 22, 2017. Getting consistent movement into your daily life is a profoundly powerful intervention for health and longevity. Several years ago, I interviewed Joan Vernikos, Ph.D., on this topic. She’s a true pioneer in this field and was one of the first professionals […]

Updated: Mar 31, 2024
Got Raw Milk? UCLA Professor of Medicine Says ‘No Thanks’

During the last few years, bureaucrats and public health officials have been quiet about raw milk, but then Iowa legalized its sale in May. The accompanying publicity — in The New York Times and USA Today,1,2 plus many other publications — has resulted in a flurry of pro-pasteurization, anti-raw milk Internet posts. One of these […]

Updated: Mar 28, 2024