Category: Health Autonomy

An FDA advisory committee could soon decide the fate of compounded B12 shots. Action Alert! One June 9th, 2021, the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) will meet to discuss whether traditional compounding pharmacies will be permitted to make medicines with methylcobalamin, choline chloride, and melatonin, among others. That compounded methylcobalamin, a bioavailable form of… Continue reading B12 on the FDA’s Hot Seat

A lay of the land on what states are doing—or not doing—to protect freedom of choice. Action Alert! As more Americans get vaccinated against COVID-19, and vaccination recommendations extend to younger and younger Americans, we are starting to see more efforts to require vaccination as a condition of receiving services, as we’ve seen at American… Continue reading Vax Passports: Where Your State Stands

More concerning trends exposing us to increased levels of radiation. Action Alert! For the first time, researchers wirelessly recorded the brain activity of Parkinson’s patients, using the information to adjust the level of stimulation delivered by an implanted device. But do these technologies pose more problems than they solve? Scientists are sounding the alarm about… Continue reading Zapping Your Brain With WiFi

Many colleges are requiring students to get vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning to campus, discriminating against those who have medical reasons for not doing so. Action Alert! An increasing number of schools are announcing that students will be required to receive COVID vaccinations before returning to campus. This raises serious concerns that those with legitimate… Continue reading Universities Fail Discrimination Test

On shaky legal grounds, the FDA has targeted N-acetylcysteine (NAC), an important antioxidant supplement. Action Alert! The FDA has declared that NAC, a vital antioxidant with a number of important health benefits, is not a legal dietary supplement. This is a direct threat to a supplement that many integrative doctors and patients rely on to… Continue reading FDA Threatens to Ban Critical Toxin Protection Supplement

The Supreme Court has reined in the FTC, but more must be done to prevent the agency from silencing natural health benefits. Action Alert! In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously found that the FTC has abused its power for decades, skirting the law to illegally seek monetary penalties from companies. The Court has now removed… Continue reading FTC Broke the Law, Attacking Supplement Companies

The role our gut microbes play in health, chronic disease, and longevity—and how government policies threaten natural ways of healing our gut. Action Alert! Research on the gut microbiome—a diverse array of trillions of microorganisms that reside in our gastrointestinal (GI) tract—is revealing how pivotal this microbial ecosystem is to preventing premature aging. Imbalances in this… Continue reading Gut Health: Impacts on Aging and Beyond

We’re spending trillions on COVID-19 relief, and another trillion-dollar infrastructure bill is being proposed. Yet there is no investment in truly preventing COVID and its comorbidities with nutrition. Action Alert! The COVID-19 relief bill fails to get to the root cause of why the COVID pandemic hit the United States so hard. Part of the… Continue reading Prevention Ignored in COVID Relief

More lunacy from the federal government threatens doctors with $10,000 fines if they tell you the science about how vitamins and minerals can help with COVID. Action Alert! The Department of Justice (DoJ) recently announced the first enforcement action against “deceptive marketing” of COVID treatments. The case involves a Missouri chiropractor who is alleged to… Continue reading Feds On Vitamins and COVID: Shut Up or Pay Up!

How fact-checkers distort the truth under a false guise of “objectivity” and shape our view of the news. ‘Fact-checking’ sites have arisen in recent years, purportedly to help us sort through the miasma of “fake news” and “misinformation” that inundate the Internet. A closer look at some of the fact-checkers shows that they are hardly… Continue reading Fact-Checker Fail