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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Researchers with Binghamton University in New York analyzed 54 tattoo inks from nine different brands common in the U.S. Among them, 45 contained additives and/or pigments that weren’t listed More than half of the inks contained polyethylene glycol (PEG), which can cause organ damage Fifteen of the tattoo inks analyzed contained propylene glycol, a potential allergen that could cause health issues due to systemic absorption Most of the dangers from tattoo inks come from iron oxides, which can cause high iron levels; the most effective way to lower your iron is to donate blood [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE When you dead hang you use gravity to free muscles around your shoulder — like the lats and chest — that can become stiff from sitting at a computer This movement can reshape the bone surrounding your shoulder to make more space in the ball and socket joint so your shoulder can move more freely The dead hang exercise also increases your grip strength, which is one of the biggest predictors of mortality A good target hang time is 90 seconds for men and 60 seconds for most women. Though longer durations are possible, [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE The 20-5-3 nature prescription describes how much time you spend outdoors to be happy and healthy At the bottom of the pyramid is 20 minutes: This is the amount of time you should aim to spend outdoors three times a week to boost memory, cognitive function and well-being The next part of the 20-5-3 rule refers to five hours — the length of time you strive to spend in semi-wild nature each month The final part of the 20-5-3 nature prescription describes three days — the number you should spend every year in remote [More]

Analysis by Sally Fallon Morell STORY AT-A-GLANCE Activator X is a fat-soluble vitamin Dr. Weston A. Price discovered in butter (especially butter from cows eating rapidly growing green grass), fish eggs and the organs and fats of animals Price found that a combination of cod liver oil and high-vitamin butter oil (which contains activator X) was an effective remedy for bone loss and tooth decay Other situations that cry out for Dr. Price’s remedy include after accidents; after insect or animal bites; before and after surgery; during recovery from addiction; and before and after injections (in situations where a person feels [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Cortisol, known as a stress hormone, plays a vital role in our health but can lead to severe health issues like muscle breakdown, inflammation, and impaired immune function when chronically elevated. Understanding cortisol’s dual feedback mechanisms in the brain and body is essential Long-duration, high-intensity exercises like long-distance running can inadvertently increase the body’s cortisol levels, pushing the body into a chronic stress state An enzyme called 11?-HSD1, present in most body tissues, is central to producing cortisol and becomes the focus for understanding and potentially treating elevated cortisol levels linked to metabolic diseases [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE When you cook your food in microwaveable plastics, toxic chemicals can migrate to your food Researchers from the University of Almería in Spain tested commercially available ready-to-cook potatoes inside microwavable plastic food containers compared to those cooked without plastic Significant migration of plastic chemicals occurred when the potatoes were microwaved in plastic A new, potentially highly toxic compound also formed in potatoes cooked in the microwave inside microwavable plastic food containers One of the simplest ways to cut down on your risk of plastic exposure from your food is to avoid cooking your food [More]

Analysis by Ashley Armstrong STORY AT-A-GLANCE Saturated fats are stable molecules and are protective. Unsaturated fats are unstable and can cause a lot of damage when consumed in excess Vegetable oils, high in polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs), can disrupt your metabolic rate, increase gut permeability and induce gut dysbiosis and inflammation. High PUFA intake also shifts your gut microbiome, which can affect your overall health High PUFA intake can also have a detrimental impact on your thyroid and metabolic health by affecting cells’ use of thyroid hormones For optimal health, eat real, whole foods, and prioritize animal fats that are rich in [More]

Analysis by Ashley Armstrong STORY AT-A-GLANCE Traditionally, cheese was made with just four ingredients: milk, salt, starter culture and animal rennet Rennet is used as a clotting agent to curdle the milk into cheese, separating the liquid parts of milk from the solids. It’s an essential part of the cheese making process Today, there are four types of rennet used in the cheese making industry: animal rennet, vegetable rennet, microbial rennet, and a genetically modified version called FPC (fermentation-produced chymosin), made by Pfizer Bioengineered chymosin (FPC) was granted Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) status, which exempted Pfizer was exempt from the [More]

? Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE CO2 is typically thought of as nothing more than a harmful waste product of respiration, but it’s actually a driver of mitochondrial energy production, and it improves the delivery of oxygen into your cells One of the simplest ways to optimize your CO2 is by breathing properly. Most people tend to over-breathe, which causes you to expel too much CO2. Proper breathing involves breathing less and breathing slower. Both of these allow CO2 to build up, and that appears to be part of why breathwork has such wide-ranging benefits To have sufficient CO2 production, you need healthy [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Niacinamide, also known as nicotinamide (a form of vitamin B3), is important for healthy mitochondrial function and cellular energy production Patients with established glaucoma scored significantly higher on visual field tests after taking niacinamide and calcium pyruvate daily for about two months Niacinamide can be used to treat declining testosterone levels in men and women, and protects against stress by lowering cortisol Niacinamide has anticancer and antiaging effects, and can be useful in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and COVID-19 It may also be valuable in the treatment of both alcoholic liver disease and [More]

? Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE As people have become aware of the dangers of the COVID shots, they’ve also started questioning conventional vaccines, and many parents who didn’t get their children vaccinated during the pandemic are not taking them in to catch up on their routine shots now Vaccinations aren’t the only thing forced upon our children that is doing them more harm than good. The public education system also poses a massive threat to our children, as the indoctrination and brainwashing spans from kindergarten to high school and beyond The current educational system completely ignores everything we [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Debanking is the weaponization of finance for the purpose of social control, which simply doesn’t happen in a free society By debanking me, my CEO, CFO, their spouses and children, Chase Bank is giving people a foretaste of how central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will be used to control the masses In the U.S., 81.37% of all desktop searches are done on Google. Worldwide, its market share for search is 85.53%. Its monopoly on searches gives Google enormous influence over what people can see and learn about, which is incredibly dangerous. Google, all by [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE The documentary, “The Lives of the Amish in the U.S.,” shares how “an encounter with the Amish is like traveling back in time” and why, in this day and age, this could be a very smart move The Amish typically avoid technology and other modern-day conveniences like electricity and cars There are significant benefits of living in concert with your community — off the grid without being dependent on anyone or any technology The Amish typically produce the majority of their own food and aren’t reliant on the public control grid A reliance on [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Your endothelium is the collective group of cells that line your blood vessels, representing about 1% of your body mass and a surface area of 5,000 square meters The endothelium is directly involved in a number of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes and chronic kidney failure Black raspberry decreases markers of inflammation and improves endothelial function, reducing risk factors of cardiovascular disease Drinking green tea is associated with an increase in flow-mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery, a measure of endothelium function Pomegranate, grape seed extract and garlic are other natural compounds that [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Many have reflected on the fact that Big Pharma has a perverse incentive to promote ill health, as its financial bottom line depends on it. But few understand just how elaborate its efforts to that end are American podcaster and former professor of evolutionary biology Bret Weinstein describes the pharmaceutical industry as an intellectual property racket. Big Pharma patents molecules, compounds and technologies, and then looks for diseases against which their patents can be applied Pharma is engaged in a continuous effort to portray its intellectual properties as more useful and safer than they [More]

? Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE There are about 10,000 publications showing that prolonged sitting is harmful to your health and promotes chronic diseases, including obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Within 90 seconds of rising from sitting to standing, the muscular and cellular systems that process blood sugar, triglycerides and cholesterol — which are mediated by insulin — are activated. All of these molecular effects are activated simply by carrying your bodyweight upon your legs Even if you get 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise each week, there’s still a dose-response association of sitting with waist circumference, systolic [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE KAATSU, also known as blood flow restriction (BFR) training, involves partially obstructing blood flow to your extremities while exercising The intermittent hypoxia generates an increase in anti-inflammatory myokines, the muscle version of cytokines, which in turn provides a whole host of beneficial hormonal responses Aside from dramatically improving muscle tone and preventing sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss), KAATSU is also a wonderful tool for post-surgical rehabilitation, allowing you to regain physical function in a fraction of the time that you would normally anticipate It will also improve your metabolic flexibility, as it increases the number [More]

? Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE One of the worst things you can do during pregnancy is to take an antibiotic. Young children also need to be shielded from antibiotics, as they devastate the microbiome Other medications best avoided, due to their devastating impact on your microbiome include hormone treatments, including birth control pills, antibacterial products containing triclosan and proton pump inhibitors Fiber-rich vegetables are massively important. Not only do they provide valuable nutrients your body needs, they also provide nutrition to the microbes in your gut, which feed on fiber Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It [More]

? Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Photobiology is the therapeutic use of light to improve health. Heliotherapy is the therapeutic use of sunlight In the late 19th century, we started gaining a great deal of knowledge about how light acts on the human body, starting with the experiments of A. Downes and T.P. Blunt, who discovered that UV radiation kills bacteria From 1900 to 1950, phototherapy was a state-of-the-art therapeutic intervention in medicine. Today, much of what was common knowledge has been lost, and we’re now rediscovering the vital importance of sunlight Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. [More]

? Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Most modern people live in constant fight-or-flight mode and find it hard to relax. GABA helps put you into parasympathetic mode, thereby promoting relaxation and stress reduction, indirectly Glutamate is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter and GABA the main inhibitory neurotransmitter. These two are always working in conjunction with each other to maintain a balance. Glutamate converts into GABA in your brain. If you have trouble converting glutamate into GABA, you’ll have excitatory-like symptoms, as the glutamate over-accumulates Underlying factors that can prevent the efficient conversion of glutamate to GABA include a lack of [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE N-acetylcysteine (NAC) boosts production of glutathione, an important antioxidant that helps reduce free radical damage and plays a role in the detoxification of heavy metals and other harmful substances In emergency medicine, NAC is used as an antidote for acetaminophen toxicity resulting from an overdose. Mortality due to acetaminophen toxicity is largely eliminated when NAC is promptly administered The most common use of NAC is for liver support, but it’s also showing tremendous promise in the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease NAC also shows particular promise in the treatment of mental [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Light exposure at night is linked to psychiatric disorders, according to the largest such study to date More light exposure at night was linked to an increased risk of depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, psychosis and self-harm Greater exposure to light during the day was beneficial and was associated with a reduced risk for major depressive disorder, PTSD, psychosis and self-harm Exposure to high amounts of light at night was linked to a 30% increased risk of depression, while exposure to high amounts of light during the day lowered depression risk by 20% Light [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Castor oil is considered one of the world’s oldest drugs, perhaps most well-known for its laxative effects and ability to induce labor in pregnant women — although I don’t recommend using it for the latter purpose While castor beans have notable anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, antibacterial, wound-healing and laxative properties, they also contain ricin, a poison; fortunately, ricin isn’t found in castor oil Castor oil packs may help relieve symptoms of constipation in the elderly; the FDA considers castor oil as “generally regarded as safe and effective” for use as a stimulant laxative Topical application of [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Honey is the third most-faked food in the world. Tests have revealed 50% to 70% of all U.S. honey is fake or adulterated True Source Honey, a honey certification group, was created by the businesses it certifies. According to a class action complaint, True Source Honey is being used by these businesses “to fraudulently control the market, sell fake honey at substantially lower prices than honest beekeepers, and divert sales, revenue, and profits to themselves” Honey can be faked and adulterated in many different ways. Common strategies include diluting the honey with sugars or [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE When children with ADHD inhaled vetiver essential oil three times a day for 30 days they had improved brain wave patterns and behavior and did better in school Other research showed vetiver essential oil to have particular promise for ADHD, as it led to changes in brain activity suggestive of increased alertness Other essential oils that may relieve ADHD symptoms include cedarwood, rosemary, ylang ylang, frankincense and more Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published January 26, 2017. About 11% of U.S. children (or 6.4 million) have been diagnosed with [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Many lectins are proinflammatory, immunotoxic, neurotoxic and cytotoxic. Certain lectins may also increase blood viscosity, interfere with gene expression and disrupt endocrine function Among the most problematic lectin-containing foods are corn, corn-fed meats, casein A1 milk, peanuts, cashews and unfermented soybeans. These are best avoided altogether High-lectin foods such as legumes and grains can be made safe to eat by proper soaking and cooking. Sprouting, fermenting and removing skins and seeds will also help reduce lectins in your diet Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published August 14, 2017. Lectins1 — [More]

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Exposure to e-cigarette vapor essentially froze neutrophils in place, leaving then unable to protect the body; neutrophils are white blood cells that your immune system uses as a first line of defense Even occasional e-cigarette users may be at risk, as the effect was seen with short, low-level exposure Neutrophils exposed to vapor from e-cigarettes had high concentrations of the microfilament F-actin, which resulted in the cells being less able to move and function The findings suggest e-cigarette users could be at increased risk of respiratory disease The long-term effects of vaping are unknown, [More]