Month: August 2023

Depression affects five percent of the global population. While that may not sound like much, in reality, it comes out to roughly 394 million people, making it one of the most common mental health disorders. Thanks to its prevalence, doctors and therapists all over the world have worked to come up with an array of…

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. —Christopher Columbus When I tell people about my travels to every country in the world, the response I often get is, “But that’s very dangerous! Did you really go to Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Central African Republic, and similar…

When I was a third-year naturopathic medical student in 1973, one of my professors, Bob Carroll, DC, ND, opened the first class of the year with the statement, “Death begins in the colon!” I was skeptical. Having just finished basic sciences, the textbooks were very clear that the gut was a perfect protective membrane only…

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“Vaccine science isn’t up for debate.” That’s a desperate, pathetic statement you will read in the USA today. We already read in Time Magazine, Robert F Kennedy Jr. Is Dead Wrong About Vaccines. Those who sell and promote vaccines are desperate as vaccine skepticism goes mainstream now that Kennedy is running for president. And millions……

As I reported last week, in mid-July 2023, JP Morgan Chase Bank canceled all Mercola Market bank accounts, along with the personal accounts of our CEO, CFO and their respective spouses and children.1 All received identical letters in which no reason for the decision was given, other that there was “unexpected activity” on an unspecified…

Every so often, life blesses us with a union of two things that will forever—as Jack Johnson would say—be better when they’re together. Case in point: Chips and guac. Sunshine and SPF. Jeremy Allen White and an stained white T-shirt. And while some of these may have been relatively recent life lessons—The Bear’s only two…

Citrus fruits are among the most widely cultivated crops in the world. A 2018 study1 sought a better understanding of the origin of citrus trees by examining DNA. The researchers believe a plausible explanation is that modern citrus trees likely descended from natural species found in a triangle formed by northern Myanmar, northwestern Yunnan and…