“Never trust an expert! Ever wondered why so much health advice is contradictory? It’s because two-thirds of medical research is wrong or fraudulent” from the dailymail.co.uk As I’ve been saying for a long time – follow the money trail (and yes, this goes for natural medicine and supplements as well) – but it is much
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I really get upset when I read about people being harmed by medication, especially when they are taking it for diseases that can be easily managed or cured by natural medicine – a simple change of diet, some exercise, meditation and maybe some herbal medicine or certain therapeutic superfoods. What upsets me even more is
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Just last week I received a letter from Metagenics, one of the premier naturopathic supplement companies in Australia and the US, notifying me of a natural product which had been taken from being freely available for naturopath’s to prescribe, and had been classed as an S4 medication which is now only available on prescription. For years
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My goodness, what is it with the medical industry that makes them so scared of our natural approach to health that they have to use claims like this to try and frighten the public away from what we do? From ninemsn: “Herbal remedies can kill, says an Australian forensic pathologist, who warns against the “false perception”
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This article was from dailymail.co.uk, and was written about Britain’s pill-popping habits, but Australia isn’t far behind! “Britain has become a nation of pill-poppers who turn to tablets to cure every ill, official figures show. We each pick up more than 16 prescriptions a year on average, twice as many as 20 years ago, Department of
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Natural News “When it comes to selling chemicals that claim to treat H1N1 swine flu, the pharmaceutical industry’s options are limited to two: Vaccines and anti-virals. The most popular anti-viral, by far, is Tamiflu, a drug that’s actually derived from a Traditional Chinese Medicine herb called star anise. But Tamiflu is no herb. It’s a potentially
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Why oh why does the government want to regulate our food as drugs? “The difference between a food and a drug is crystal clear: One is natural and one is man-made synthetic and prone to side effects. If they get away with classifying foods as medicine, prices of nutritional ‘superfoods’ like chlorella and spirulina will
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This is quite funny and reminds me that I need a reality check at times – because I am so immersed in health and healthy practices in both my work and my personal life, I forget how most “normal” people live. It started when a friend was visiting a week ago, and as we shared a cuppa
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Isn’t this the silliest thing you’ve ever heard? Researchers have found that components in certain fruits such as grapefruit, apples and oranges, can inhibit the uptake of certain drugs through the intestine. “The concern is loss of benefit of medications essential for the treatment of serious medical conditions” it has been stated. Granted, that may very
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Could it happen here? “A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on
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