An important Finnish study found that infants who received 2,000 IU of vitamin D in the first year of life had 80% less incidence of type 1 diabetes. Other research shows that cod liver oil (which contains both omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D) also cuts the risk of type 1 diabetes. In addition, prenatal...
While stimulant medications remain the standard treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), research shows saffron offers comparable efficacy—with the added benefit of more sound sleep. According to a groundbreaking study published in Nutrients, a botanical extract of the ancient spice saffron works as well as the psychostimulant methylphenidate (brand names Ritalin and Concerta) to treat...
Many people have only recently begun to learn about the astonishing healing and infection-fighting benefits of colloidal silver, but did you know that there are over 100 years of research relating to its medical usage? Colloidal silver’s broad-spectrum antimicrobial qualities have been known since the late 1800s when the substance was first produced. Here’s a...
Boosting levels coincides with lowered risk of debilitating mental and physical diseases. Vitamin D deficiency is often accompanied by symptoms and diseases that are casually dismissed as “old age.” Vitamin D, which acts more like a hormone than a vitamin, plays several important roles and can affect everything from cognition to cancer. Among its roles,...
How to Build Resilience by Harnessing the Power of Herbs & Spices As this issue focuses on EMF exposure, one of my favorite authors, Dr. Sina McCullough, gave permission for Green Medicine Newsletter to include her article about protective herbs and spices. Our exposure to man-made radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) has increased dramatically in recent...
Jonathan V. Wright M.D. Research and experience tell us that there are ways to protect ourselves—at least partially—against the never-before found on planet Earth (and therefore automatically health hazardous) electromagnetic frequencies continuously broadcast by cell phones and cell phone towers. Check your melatonin level! Like many other hormones, melatonin can decline with age; if that...
