Green Medicine Newsletter – Excerpts

"I'm really worried about George," Marge Sampson said. "I finally convinced him to let me drag him in here for a check-up. He didn't want to come at all. The last time I got him to see a doctor he wanted to put George on an antidepressant. George got so upset; his...

What's this? We all learned in school that our bodies can't make vitamins; vitamins are essential nutrients that our bodies can't make internally, we must get them from our food. If we need more than what's in our food, then vitamin supplements can be added. So what's...

As explained in the Green Medicine Newsletter December 2018 article, "Can Your Own Body Make Enough Vitamin B3?", vitamin B3 is made from tryptophan inside our own bodies. When this "metabolic pathway" is disrupted, tryptophan is "re-routed" into xanthurenic acid and...

"It's this herpes thing," Jim McAllister said. "It's breaking out more and more often. Between herpes and work and kids, Judy and I haven't gotten together in months. I don't know if she's frustrated, but I am." "I've been just as frustrated trying to get him to see...

We’re all aware—especially women—of menopause, when women’s ovaries reduce and then stop secreting estrogens, progesterone, and a bit of testosterone. Men’s testosterone levels decline with time (a process termed “andropause”) of course much more slowly than women,...

October is said to be “Breast Cancer Awareness Month." Yet with all the publicity (and fund-raising) about breast cancer before and during October, we rarely (if ever) see or hear about research done and reported from several countries, which tells us that breast...

President Reagan’s Dementia Many Green Medicine Newsletter readers may remember that former President Ronald Reagan—by his own public admission—suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in his later years. Here’s a very brief excerpt from his “Letter to the American People”...

Do you think the cost of health care is too high, maybe ‘way too high? Health care costs will continue escalating for only as long as there is no health care freedom! Green Medicine Newsletter has repeatedly (sorry about that!) mentioned the suppression of the 1st...

…and eat their broccoli, as well as cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, bok choy, kale, arugula, radishes, and many, many others that can be found by “looking up” Cruciferous (also termed Brassica) vegetables online or in a dictionary or gardening book. Women of...

What you’re about to read could be the next big award-winning Hollywood blockbuster. It’s got family tragedy and suffering, heroes and heroines, villains, struggle, and the ultimate triumph over “evil.” Imagine a family living in a small-town in Alberta, Canada, a...