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Salad May Cause Autism? If Johns Hopkins Says So, It MUST be True
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, May 18, 2016 If you believe the media (and golly, doesn’t everybody?), pregnant women should not eat leafy green vegetables. Well, that is the gist of Johns Hopkins’ May 11 report that “Too Much Folate in Pregnant Women Increases Risk for Autism” (http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2016/too-much-folate-in-pregnant-women-increases-risk-for-autism-study-suggests.html ). Okay, the study actually targets supplements, but let’s…
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Fish Oil Capsules Get Blamed For Unreported Drug Interactions – Now THERE’S a Surprise . . .
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, May 4, 2016 In what is getting to be known as the anti-dietary supplement journal, JAMA Internal Medicine is at it yet again. The journal recently reported on changes in prescription drug and dietary supplements from 2005 to 2011, with prescription drug use rising from 84.1% to 87.7% and dietary supplements from 51.8%…
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The Latest Research on Holistic Health – Are you up to it?
Pharmacists demand the latest evidence- and research-based information on things related to complementary medicines. Some of us were lucky enough to hear an array of international speakers at the recent Research Symposium presented for the 4th consecutive year by BioCeuticals. And each symposium seems to get better! World renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, paediatric gastroenterologist and…
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Community Pharmacy or Commodity Pharmacy?
Are pharmacies becoming a glamorised outlet for widely advertised complementary and over-the-counter medicines that require no skill to “pack and wrap”? Sales based on an advertisement in weekend papers (all heavily discounted of course!) and sales of nutritionals into China are driving our professionalism underground. Pharmacists who have never entertained supporting a particular complementary medicine…
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Vaccinations, Vitamin C, and “Choice”
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, February 13, 2016 Some folks are pretty appalled that my husband and I had our children vaccinated. People write and tell me that vaccinations are dangerous. They warn me about the side effects of this vaccine and that one. They share alternative, natural ways to improve immunity. What we’ve got here…
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How Doctors Use Vitamin C Against Lead Poisoning
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 26, 2016. We hear about the hazards of lead. We know that lead poisoning can cause severe mental retardation. Lead has been clearly linked with Alzheimer’s disease. We have been told to avoid lead in our homes and in our water, and to clean up lead pollution of our environment.…
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Nutritional Supplement Safety Profile Proven To Be 100 Percent Safe
Editor’s Note: Don’t you get sick and tired of so-called “news” items that deliver alarmist type bytes concerning the safety profile of vitamins, minerals and supplements. It is an endless litany of irrelevant detail promoted by drug manufacturers because they know that if a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth. Joseph Goebbels,…
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Confused over chromium?
It’s often difficult to get the true picture when you hear and read a sensational report about a nutritional supplement causing cancer. Erin Brockovich brought chromium into the spotlight because of the 2000 movie and book, in which there was shown to be a link between an elevated cluster of illnesses, including cancer, to hexavalent…
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Countdown Has Commenced And It Is Woolworths’ Pharmacy Being Launched
In an article I wrote on June 1, 2015, I said: “Influential shareholders of Woolworths are seeking to invite Roger Corbett, the nemesis of Australian pharmacy, back into the fold as chairman.” “Corbett has been carefully planning succession to his current position of chairman of Fairfax Media Ltd citing very early in the process that…
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The Monsanto Tribunal – in The Hague, 12th -16th of October 2016
It is an ongoing worry that global corporations, most with US origins, appear to be usurping democratically elected governments through their donations to political campaigns and the lack of “arms length” of key government employees with these corporates, many having been employees of corporates themselves – and vise-versa. It is likened to a perpetual revolving…