The FDA is preparing to unleash an anti-supplement policy by the end of this year that could eliminate tens of thousands of products from the market. The FDA has announced that, by the end of December 2022, it plans to release drafts or final versions of a number of policies, and among them is the “new dietary ingredient” (NDI) guidance (“new supplement” guidance, in plain English). It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most dangerous threat to supplements we’ve seen in decades. Read more.
Archives for November 2022
Unvaccinated Blood Banks? Learn About the Growing Movement for Clean Transfusions
Swiss naturopath George Della Pietra has started a new “SafeBlood Donation” service to provide clean, unvaccinated blood for patients needing transfusions. Read more.
FDA Declares Lab-Grown Chicken ‘Safe to Eat’ — But Scientists, Food Safety Advocates Have Questions
Describing the development as “a food revolution,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday declared lab-grown chicken meat developed by Berkeley, California-based food-tech firm Upside Foods is safe for human consumption. Upside Foods “will use animal cell culture technology to take living cells from chickens and grow the cells in a controlled environment to make the cultured animal cell food,” the FDA said. Read more.
6 Ways to Clear a Stuffy Nose Naturally
Dealing with congested sinuses? Use these 6 methods to clear your stuffy nose without drugs—and to help keep it clear naturally! Read more.
Protecting Against Viruses and other Threats to Wellness: The Roles of Cysteine and Selenocysteine
With so many threats from so many different directions, what can a person do? The advice of W. Todd Penberthy, PhD comes to mind, “Adequate amounts of essential nutrients and sufficient high quality sleep can enable the body to recover from virus-induced deficiencies of essential molecules and prevent death due to sepsis…. it is best to make sure adequate levels of all essential nutrients are present so multi-step biochemical pathways can function through to completion.” Read more.
5 Science-Backed Wound Healers Found in Nature
The natural biological process that occurs in your body to heal a wound is as incredible as it is complex. Four precise phases — hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation and remodeling — must occur in the proper sequence and with the correct timing for the wound to heal successfully, and because many factors may interfere with this process, impaired wound healing is common. Read more.
Not Just for Baking: Baking Soda Hacks That Will Change Your Life
So you just bought some beautiful, fresh produce, and you need to remove the remaining dirt, but soap is not an option and water just won’t cut it. Here’s where baking soda steps in. Read more.
What Grocery Stores Don’t Tell You About Stickers on Produce
You know those little stickers that come on your produce and seem to stick to everything when you pull them off and cause more irritation than anything? Those little stickers actually have more to say than you might think. Read more.
The Double-Edge Sword of Stress
This week is International Stress Awareness Week. In recognition of the ever-increasing, and seemingly overwhelming, burdens that so many are shouldering as social, political, economic and environmental systems become ever more unstable, we offer our top take-homes to help you refocus and bring what the Swedish refer to as ‘lagom’ into your life. Read more.
Is COVID Over — Or Is There a Looming Apocalypse?
Is it time to hunker down, or resume our normal lives? Read more.