Posts Tagged natural

9 Questions That Stump Every Pro-Vaccine Advocate

By Dave Mihalovic, a Naturopathic Doctor specializing in vaccine research, cancer prevention and a natural approach to treatment.

Since the flu pandemic was declared, there have been several so-called “vaccine experts” coming out of the wood work attempting to justify the effectiveness of vaccines. All of them parrot the same ridiculous historical and pseudoscientific perspectives of vaccinations which are easily squelched with the following 9 questions.

Claim: The study of vaccines, their historical record of achievements, effectiveness, safety and mechanism in humans are well understood and proven in scientific and medical circles.

Fact: The claim is completely false. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dr. Mercola’s One Hour FREE Vitamin D Lecture

Vitamin D deficiency is pandemic in the United States, but many Americans, including physicians, are not aware that they may be lacking this important nutrient.

Part 1 of 7

This video may simply be one of the most important videos for you and your family’s health this year. I urge you to find some quality time this holiday season to view it so you can understand the nearly unbelievable benefits you will receive by understanding this vital nutrient.

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Five Ways to Help Beat Depression Without Antidepressants

Posted by Dr. Mercola | March 09 2010 | 25,355 views

antidepressants, placebo, depressionTwenty-plus years of research on antidepressants, from the old tricyclics to the newer selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) show that their benefit is hardly more than what patients get when they take a placebo.

More and more scientists who study depression and the drugs that treat it are concluding that antidepressants are basically expensive Tic Tacs.

Research has found that patients do improve, often substantially, on SSRIs, tricyclics, and even MAO inhibitors. This improvement is the basis for the ubiquitous claim that antidepressants work.

But when researchers compare the improvement in patients taking the drugs with the improvement in those taking dummy pills, they find that the difference is minuscule. Read the rest of this entry »

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