The most important thing for American audiences to understand from the HBO mini-series Chernobyl is that nuclear accidents can and do happen here. Here’s a quick review of nuclear accidents Americans need to remember to heal our own nuclear legacy.
Read MoreThe U.S. federal government ruled again in 2017 that cannabis—an adaptogenic herb like ashwaganda— has no medicinal value and is as highly addictive as heroin. Why would the U.S. Attorney General and FDA say that, when cannabis is not addictive, and has dozens of proven medicinal applications?
Read MoreGaming gone awry. The #subscribetoPewDiePie meme, chatroom troll storms, and how violent video gaming connects to racist, violent hate-filled shooter “manifestos” posted on 8chan’s message boards.
Read MoreOur emotions evolved over millennia. They’re part of our intelligence. They helped get us this far. And they will help us find our way now through a chronic disease epidemic that is threatening our personal and collective wellbeing. We won’t be able to turn those rates around without equal amounts of introspection and honesty.
Read MoreThis famous photo by George Silk for Life Magazine in 1948 featured model Kay Heffernon posing in a cloud of DDT with a hotdog, a soda and a plastic straw. The publicity stunt was meant to convince the American public that DDT spraying was safe. But thinking environmental toxins are safe when they're not have made people and planet sick.
Read MoreCould Florida be the next Fukushima? Americans have been so busy fearing a nuclear threat from North Korea or Iran that we haven't been looking at the threat right here at home that we created ourselves. When Hurricane Irma—the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded—barreled toward a nuclear power plant directly in its path just south of Miami in 2017, that question suddenly became foreground in everyone's mind.
Read MoreIf you've been given a cancer diagnosis, check out these 10 resources before you decide on conventional medical treatment including chemotherapy and radiation therapy. They will take you on a journey into alternative approaches to healing that could change everything. Those supporting people with a cancer diagnosis or who have a family history of cancer will want to read this list too. But the truth is, with an almost 1-in-2 cancer rate, all of us need to read this list.
Read MoreGiven that Americans have the most mental illness of any other people on the planet, does it make sense that our political system is mentally ill too?
Read MoreAfter a breast cancer diagnosis, Angela Pascual declined conventional medical treatment including chemotherapy and surgery, and followed her online research to an alternative cancer clinic in the Philippines where she learned the tumor in her breast might have everything to do with dental problems in her mouth.
Read MoreHealist founder Camilla Griggers, PhD interviews featured healist Brandy Vaughn—a former Merck sales rep turned whistleblower who bravely chooses to speak out about vaccine safety in spite of intimidation. She is the founder of LearnTheRisk.org, and is a fearless mother with a heart of gold.
Read MoreWhatever ails us physically, emotionally or spiritually, whether it’s a health challenge, a diagnosis, a divorce, or losing a loved one, I believe the best healing starts and ends in the family. And that’s the way it should be. Because home is the natural place for prevention oriented self-care, care of the other, and family healing.
Read MoreSome things are hard to talk about, hard to say. And sometimes they are the most obvious things. Often they’re what you know in your heart to be true. So let’s talk about Angelina Jolie’s prophylactic double mastectomy and hysterectomy as a real factor in her and Brad Pitt’s breakup. After all, how could it not be?
Read MoreSeriously, it’s time to gag, retch and vomit—driven by the primal urge to purge. Inundated by toxins in our food and water, we’ve never had more reason to want to reject poisons before they hurt us. Who cares what it looks like? If cats do it, why don’t we?
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