Posted March 13, 2020
As of March 5, 2020, there were 98,067 reported cases of novel coronavirus infections affecting 88 countries and territories, 80,430 of which were in China. Worldometer.info provides an easy overview of confirmed cases and deaths that you can check for the latest statistics.1 Also, as of March 5, 2020, there were 11 deaths reported in the U.S., 10 in Washington state and one in California.2 Read more.
Posted March 13, 2020
From weight gain to autoimmunity to food allergies, skin problems, depression, and more, a leaky gut is often at the root of the problem. Perhaps that’s why the Father of Western Medicine, Hippocrates, said over 2,000 years ago: “All disease begins in the gut.” Read more.
Posted March 6, 2020
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and has $46.8 billion in assets (December 2018). It is the largest charitable foundation in the world and distributes more aid for global health than any government. One of the foundation’s stated goals is to globally enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty. Read more.
Posted March 6, 2020
Thousands of farmers from multiple states are expected to join mass tort litigation pending in federal court over claims that weed-killing products developed by the former Monsanto Co. and other chemical companies are destroying and contaminating crops, including organic production, a group of lawyers and farmers said on Wednesday. Read more.
Posted March 6, 2020
According to the FDA’s legal definition, a drug is anything that “diagnoses, cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease” The problem with this definition is that there are numerous substances, as readily available and benign as found on our spice racks, which have been proven by countless millennia of human experience to mitigate, prevent and in some cases cure disease, and which cannot be called drugs according to the FDA. Read more.
Posted March 6, 2020
A randomized clinical trial reveals that the ancient healing food known as nigella sativa (aka “black seed”), once known as the “remedy for everything but death,” may provide an ideal treatment for the autoimmune thyroid condition known as Hashimoto’s disease, which is the most common cause of hypothyroidism. Read more.
Posted March 6, 2020
In this video watch as Charles Dowding gives you a tour of his 2019 winter garden which will show you the results of 7 years of using the “no dig” gardening method. In it he shows you first the simplicity of his approach, which is spreading organic matter on the surface, and that’s it! View here.
Posted March 6, 2020
Bayer AG’s takeover of Monsanto has been beset by problems, and now a decades-long dominance of the $4 billion U.S. soybean seed market is under threat from rival Corteva Inc. Read more.
Posted March 6, 2020
Strokes can be divided into hemorrhagic stroke and ischemic strokes, and approximately 80% of them are ischemic brain injury. Ischemic strokes are sometimes referred to as “brain attacks” (instead of “heart attacks”) because they typically occur when a blood clot blocks an artery or blood vessel, cutting off blood flow to your brain, as opposed to your heart. Read more.
Posted March 6, 2020
U.S. farmers harvested nearly 3.3 million acres of certified organic field crops in 2019, driven by 14% more organic field crop operations, according to a press release from Mercaris. Read more.
