Green Medicine Newsletter – Excerpts

D-Mannose self-treatment for urinary tract infections started in the 1980s with a girl less than 10 years old who had been suffering from recurrent kidney infections for most of her then-short life. Even though these infections were successfully treated with...

Last month Green Medicine Newsletter reported about the latest FDA-financed attack1 on bio-identical hormones ("BHRT"). When many hear the initials "BHRT", they think of hormone replacement for women, which includes estrogens, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA, and...

Zinc, selenium, and boron are all minerals which have been found to reduce prostate cancer risk. Even though these three minerals can be purchased as supplements, it's always best to get as much of them from the food that we eat, which of course contains other...

Singers—especially singing professionals—likely know about this already, but for those of us who aren't, this may be new information and possibly useful if we sing in a choir or do other singing. Researchers had ten men perform "vocal loading", defined as stress...

If we need another reason to totally stay away from high-fructose corn syrup, here's reason #1,234,567. The researchers started their report1 by writing: "Excessive consumption of beverages sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup is associated with obesity and with an...

It's May again in Seattle, where our chances of getting a sunburn are small until at least the 5th of July. In much of the rest of these United States, sunburn season is already underway, and likely you've been hearing or reading about how you to should cover yourself...

The "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Health and Medicine Division" has announced1 an investigation titled Clinical Utility of Treating Patients with Compounded "Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy". The fact that this written title...

In 2006, the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a 450-page document reporting their findings about fluoride and toxicity. It warned of possible damage to the brain and other health effects from exposure...

Over the last few months there have been a chorus of articles telling us that "fish oil supplementation doesn't reduce cardiovascular risk". These articles were based on a "Cochrane Review"1 of research examining effects of increasing fish-derived (EPA, DHA) and...

In the mid-1950s D. C. Jarvis M.D. published "Folk Medicine", a book which sold over a million copies. Even though he was an M.D. graduate of the University of Vermont Medical College, he learned about the effectiveness of many aspects of Vermont folk medicine while...