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Questionable Motives: Mainstream Medicine Attacks Colloidal Silver

(NaturalNews) Prior to the advent of patentable and more profitable antibiotics, medicines containing silver were the most widely prescribed infection fighters by doctors and there were no fewer than 34 different approved prescription and over the counter...

Activist Groups that Fund Pharma Try to Regulate Silver as a Pesticide (Opinion)

(NaturalNews) It was revealed that a handful of the activist agencies which were behind the petition to the EPA to regulate nano-silver as a pesticide received funding from pharmaceutical giant Merck, which annually has hundreds of billions of dollars...

Merck Blockbuster Diabetes Drug: Januvia Linked to Pancreatitis

(NaturalNews) U.S. health officials said on Friday they suspect Merck`s blockbuster diabetes drug Januvia to be linked to pancreatitis, a potentially fatal condition marked by serious inflammation of the pancreas. As might be expected, Merck company...

Patrick Swayze Dead at Fifty-Seven after Placing False Hopes in Chemotherapy

(NaturalNews) Patrick Swayze, the star of movies such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost", died Monday at age 57 after a 20 month battle with pancreatic cancer. Although Mr. Swayze outlasted his original prognosis of only having a few months left to live,...

Chemo Does Not Cure: Often It Inflicts Damage and Spreads Cancer

(NaturalNews) For years now, many of us who advocate natural health and natural approaches to beating cancer have warned against the dangers and the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy. The following report presented at the 27th Annual San Antonio Breast...

Fatal Allergic Reactions Triggered by Common Chemotherapy Drug

(NaturalNews) A new study presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology held in Orlando, reported that a chemotherapy drug intended to help save cancer patients` lives instead often resulted in life-threatening and...

Stopping to Smell the Roses Really can Relieve Stress

(NaturalNews) Feeling stressed? Stop and smell the roses. Or perhaps get a good whiff of lavender, lemon, mango, mint, coriander or other fragrant plants. We`ve all heard the old adage that we should take breaks and "stop and smell the roses" to relieve...

Digestive Enzymes are Important for Health and Longevity

(NaturalNews) During a recent natural health seminar in Utopia, Texas Naturopathic Doctor Ken O`Neal gave a presentation on digestive enzymes and the vital role they play in our health and longevity. As Dr. O`Neal explained, until the advent of modern...

Cayenne Pepper is the King of Herbs

(NaturalNews) Cayenne pepper has been called "the king of herbs" with good reason, as it has been prized for thousands of years for its healing powers. Folklore from around the world has recounted amazing results in its simple healing of baffling health...

How to Beat and Prevent Osteoporosis Naturally

(NaturalNews) As we age, our bones begin to erode, which to some extent is normal and a natural result of aging. However, some of us lose so much bone that our skeletons become weakened and deformed and in severe cases we incur loss of bone density in...

Cancer is Getting Harder to Beat and Avoid

(NaturalNews) In recent years, statistical cancer death rates have been showing decreases for some cancers in some parts of the world, which has led some people to optimistically report that cancer is getting easier to beat. Nothing could be farther...

The Father of Oleander Soup - Part 2 of the Oleander Series

(NaturalNews) In the earlier article "An Amazing Discovery in Turkey", the first of this series of articles about oleander, I described how Doctor H. Z. Ozel discovered an age old remedy for cancer and other conditions in rural Turkey in the early 1960`s...

Prostate Screening Can Lead to Unnecessary Treatment and Risks 95% of the Time

(NaturalNews) Two large studies published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the PSA blood test used to screen for prostate cancer saves few lives and can lead to risky and unnecessary treatments for 95% of the men who are screened. Dr....

Common Chemicals may Delay Pregnancy and Inflict Much Worse

(NaturalNews) A new study suggests that chemicals known as perfluorinated chemicals, which are pervasive in food packaging, pesticides, clothing, upholstery, carpets and personal care products, may delay pregnancy. Other studies and evidence have indicated...

Clean Your Air and Brighten Your Day with Houseplants

(NaturalNews) People have long known about the psychological benefits of brightening their homes and offices with decorative houseplants. What many may be overlooking are the physical health benefits of having plenty of these plants to remove harmful...

Magnesium is Vital for Good Health

(NaturalNews) Very few people are aware of how vital magnesium is for overall health. After oxygen, water, and basic food, magnesium may be the most important element needed by our bodies, activating over 300 different biochemical reactions necessary...

Black Cumin Seeds for Cancer, Autoimmune Disorders, Asthma, and More

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Modern Medicine, Part I: How Healing Illness Became Managing Illness

(NaturalNews) For over 6000 years, man looked first to nature to heal illness and maintain wellness. As a result of a deliberate and often sinister plan, the past century and a half has seen curing illness with nature replaced with managing sickness...

Natural Help for Ovarian Cancer

(NaturalNews) Ovarian cancer is a nonspecific term for a variety of cancers that originate in the ovary. There are about 20 microscopically distinct types. Though difficult to detect in the very early stages, once diagnosed ovarian cancer is often easy...

Common Sense Revisited: Looking for a Few Good Men and Women

(NaturalNews) Over two centuries ago, what would become our fledgling nation stood at a crossroads - poised to either submit to continued tyranny by an oppressive and unresponsive government or else bravely rise up and declare their freedom and refusal...

Winter Sun Makes it Difficult to Get Essential Vitamin D Naturally

(NaturalNews) As the days grow short in winter, your body may be missing invaluable Vitamin D needed for optimum health and disease prevention, according to Creighton University researcher Joan Lappe, Ph.D. During the summer, the body can convert...

Action Alert: Stop EPA from Eliminating Access to Colloidal Silver

(NaturalNews) Urgent Action Needed - Petition Seeks to Have Nano-Silver Regulated as a Pesticide. A coalition of environmental and activist groups have been inundating their members with emails and other messages to garner support for a misguided petition...

OIG Reports FDA Approved Drugs without Following Federal Safety Laws

(NaturalNews) The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has just released a damning report on the FDA`s drug approval process which provides clear evidence the FDA has approved drugs without following required legal procedures. Specifically, the Food and...

Patrick Swayze's Misguided Faith in Mainstream Medicine

(NaturalNews) Millions of people tuned in to watch the Barbara Walters interview with Patrick Swayze which centered on his fight against pancreatic cancer. It was wonderful to see Swayze so fired up and hopeful and to his credit, he has refused to accept...

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Cancer Fighting Oleander Plant

(NaturalNews) The major active compound in the amazing cancer fighting and immune boosting oleander plant is felt to be the cardiac glycoside oleandrin. However, the opinion among those who have studied oleander is virtually unanimous; it is a synergistic...

The Latest Brainless Idea: Brain Drugs for Healthy People

(NaturalNews) In a commentary in the latest edition of the journal Nature, several scientists make the dubious claim that healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive kids or memory-impaired...

Bone Drugs: The Latest Skeletons in Big Pharma's Closet

(NaturalNews) Bisphosphonate bone drugs have been in the news recently, and if you look outside the mainstream media you will find that the news is not good at all. Instead of a product that actually cures illness or corrects deficiencies, bisphosphonates...

Economy Woes Ignore True Health Concerns

(NaturalNews) Last Wednesday`s New York Times featured a story with the headline "In Sour Economy, Some Scale Back on Medications", which lamented the fact that "for the first time in at least a decade, the nation`s consumers are trying to get by on...

Spinning the Truth About the Halted NCI Prostate Cancer Study

(NaturalNews) The National Cancer Institute has announced a halt to its $114 million study of whether vitamin E and selenium can prevent prostate cancer, saying that they cannot and that they might even cause slightly elevated risks for more prostate...

Overcome Helpless Over-Eating With These Healthful Tips

(NaturalNews) If you believe that you are a helpless over eater whose attempts at dieting are doomed, you may actually have already taken an important step towards success in overcoming your problem. Admitting that you have the problem is a big first...

Yerba Mate: South America's Health Drink

(NaturalNews) More than a drink, Yerba Mate (pronounced "yerba mahtay") has become a cultural phenomenon throughout South America and its use is rapidly spreading to the United State. Its benefits are obvious. In Buenos Aires, where people carry their...

The Addictive Nature of the Pain Killer OxyContin - One Man's True Story

(NaturalNews) Last year, it was reported that the maker of OxyContin was fined $644.5 Million for misleading the public. That is a steep fine, but when you look at this young man`s story and think of all the other stories of struggle and heartache that...

Natural Remedies for Yeast Infections and Candida

(NaturalNews) Yeast infections are caused by an overgrowth of yeast which can affect the skin (yeast rash), mouth (thrush), digestive tract, esophagus, vagina (vaginitis), and other parts of the body. Yeast infections occur most frequently in moist areas...

Natural Remedies for Treating Parasites

(NaturalNews) According to the World Health Organization, 3.5 billion people suffer from some type of parasitic infection. Not all of these people live in third world countries; many in the developed world have any number of parasitic infections, some...

Natural Remedies and Repellents for Biting and Stinging Insects

(NaturalNews) It`s summer time and not only is the sun out in abundance, so are the bugs -- and some of them come with a bite (or a sting). The good news is that there is plenty of natural relief for such annoying bites and stings. First, however,...

Health Freedom Is Part of a Larger Battle Begun Long Ago

(NaturalNews) The vitally important erosion of our health freedoms is but a part of the overall erosion of the God-given unalienable rights declared by our founders in the Declaration of Independence and secured by the Constitution. In order to secure...

The Cancer and Disease Fighting Plants of the Rainforest

(NaturalNews) One of my all time favorite websites is Dr. Leslie Taylor`s Rain-tree.com and my favorite section of the website is the plant database she has painstakingly compiled. It is a database of the many plants and herbs used by indigenous peoples...

A Small Supplement Company's Fight for Health Freedom

(NaturalNews) For the past five years, the Utopia Silver Supplement Company has been waging a battle for health freedom against the giants of the State of Texas and the FDA -- one which may have major implications for all of us regarding the freedom...

Family Love and Medical Greed Can Be a Deadly Combination

(NaturalNews) For many generations now, we, our families and our doctors have been taught to forget mankind`s 6000 year history of preventing and treating illness naturally and to believe that the only real medicine comes in a brown bottle and that the...

Mushrooms That Fight Cancer and Boost the Immune System

(NaturalNews) In the world of natural health, "medicinal" mushrooms are known as some of the most potent immune boosters and disease fighters. Perhaps the most potent of all is the Agaricus Blazei Murrill mushroom, known in its native Brazil as "The...

Choose Nature Instead of Prozac for PMS and PMDD

(NaturalNews) Thanks to a recent question in the Ask Tony Isaacs Curezone forum, I discovered that it appears to be common to prescribe the dangerous drug Prozac for PMS -- at least in the United States, that is. Not only that, but it is evidently often...

The Recipe for Oleander Soup - Make Your own Cancer and HIV Remedy (Part 1)

(NaturalNews) In a recent series of articles here on Natural News I have traced the history of the wondrous oleander plant and how it is a potent remedy for cancer and HIV -- the most potent I know of, in fact -- and have noted that oleander is available...

The Recipe for Oleander Soup - Tips and Advice (Part 2)

(NaturalNews) Following are the tips and advice gathered from some of the most experienced herbal oleander soup makers in the world. This is the second article in a two part series on making oleander soup as a remedy for treating cancer and HIV. Please...

Forget the Headlines - Keep Taking Your Vitamins and Minerals

(NaturalNews) A "new" study condemning the use of vitamins and classifying them as ineffective and potentially dangerous is generating headlines throughout the mainstream media in the United States and Europe. Apparently generating headlines was the...

Natural Remedies for Poison Ivy and Poison Oak

(NaturalNews) Spring has sprung and summer seems to be barreling along too -- at least here in the south Texas hill country I call home these days. Besides the abundance of human friendly flora bursting upon our landscape, there are also some that are...

Bromelain - The Wonder Supplement

(NaturalNews) I first experienced bromelain several years ago when I was bitten by a brown recluse spider on the front of my upper left leg - in three places no less. This was the second time I had been bitten - the first time I was bitten resulted in...

Mainstream Studies on Vitamin Efficacy Flawed

(NaturalNews) Recent headlines from an Oregon State University study asserted "Vitamin E trials fatally flawed" and the following story detailed how most studies on Vitamin E have been flawed to the point of being essentially worthless. Here are some...

Hiding the Truth About Losing the War on Cancer

(NaturalNews) For well over half a century we have been promised by mainstream medicine that a cure or major breakthrough for cancer was just around the corner. Every year we see promising new drugs and therapies announced. Yet every year we also see...

Clinical Study of Oleander for HIV Is Successful (Oleander Series Part 6)

(NaturalNews) In the previous installment of the "Oleander Series" (Success Against HIV and Cancer in South Africa), I reported how the oleander based Sutherlandia OPC supplement designed by South African HIV and cancer crusader and researcher Marc Swanepoel...

Our Disappearing Minerals and Their Vital Health Role (Part 1)

(NaturalNews) Dating back to the beginning of the last century, mineral depletion in our soils, and thus in the food we eat, has been horrendous -- and it has gotten much worse in recent decades, as we strip the top eight feet of soil throughout the...

'The Best Years In Life' Diet Plan - Reach Your Optimum Weight and Health

(NaturalNews) Excess weight and obesity has become a problem of epidemic proportions over the past few decades, thanks in part to declining physical activity and large part to changes in the foods we eat - as well as the foods we don`t eat - as part...

Success Against HIV and Cancer in South Africa (Oleander Series Part 5)

(NaturalNews) Years ago, when I first began research into the amazing oleander plant, I ended up as a member of two Yahoo Health Groups about oleander. One was named "Anvirzel" (after the patented Oleander medicine which had passed FDA phase 1 trials...

The Unforeseen Dangers of Coconut Oil Tanning Lotion (humor)

(NaturalNews) I have learned in recent years that suntan oils and lotions may contain dangerous chemicals, like so many things in life do these days. I can also tell you from experience that sometimes even natural ingredients can have unforeseen consequences....

A Plan for Living a Long and Healthy Life (Part 2)

(NaturalNews) In part one of "A Plan for Living a Long and Healthy Life" we concluded with the good news that it is never too early or too late to begin living a healthy lifestyle, regaining lost youth and energy and adding many healthier and more enjoyable...

Oleander Induces Cell Death in Pancreatic Cancer - Part 4 of the Oleander Series

(NaturalNews) In a study published recently in peer reviewed journals, an aqueous extract of the oleander plant was found to induce and increase autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells. Autophagy is a process in which a cell destroys proteins and other...

Mainstream Vaccination Support: Another Chapter in an Old Story

(NaturalNews) Despite a mounting and impressive body of evidence of the dangers and harm associated with vaccinations coming from both within and outside the mainstream medical community, much of mainstream medicine and the agencies that serve it continue...

Natural Remedies for the Treatment of Diabetes

(NaturalNews) Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which blood-sugar (glucose) levels are above normal "either the body doesn`t produce enough of the hormone insulin, which breaks down sugar in the blood, or it cannot utilize its own insulin properly....

How to Beat and Prevent the Avian Flu and Other Influenzas

(NaturalNews) Are you worried about the possible outbreak of the Avian Flu among humans? Perhaps you should be! I hope that all of the publicity about the Bird Flu proves to be a false alarm, as well as the theories that it may be a deliberately engineered...

Diet and Epilepsy: A Natural Approach to a Vexing Problem

(NaturalNews) Over two million people in America have epilepsy of one kind or another - a disorder characterized by recurring seizures. While most of those who suffer from epilepsy use various medications to attempt to control their seizures, many have...

Whenever a Government Becomes Destructive, Health Freedoms Diminish

(NaturalNews) Every week seems to bring yet another new issue calling for action to stop the FDA from taking one step after another which will further erode our safety and restrict our access to products and information we should have a Natural God given...

Natural Remedies for Treating Arthritis

(NaturalNews) Arthritis is a disease that causes pain and loss of movement of the joints. The word arthritis literally means joint inflammation (arth=joint, ritis=inflammation), and refers to more than 100 different diseases. One Highly Effective...

A Plan for Living a Long and Healthy Life (Part 1)

(NaturalNews) Life is a gamble, and right now, chances are that the odds are very much stacked against you. The contamination in the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the highly processed and additive-filled foods you eat all combine to work...

An Amazing Discovery in Turkey - Part 1 of the Oleander Series

(NaturalNews) My search for a possible cancer cure began in late 2004 when I found out that my cousin, lifelong friend and running buddy, Jeff Johnson, had been diagnosed as having stage-three melanoma. The cancer had appeared out of nowhere and so it...

The Father of “Oleander Soup” - Part 2 of the Oleander Series

(NaturalNews) In the earlier article "An Amazing Discovery in Turkey", the first of this series of articles about oleander, I described how Doctor H. Z. Ozel discovered an age old remedy for cancer and other conditions in rural Turkey in the early 1960's...

A Brief History of the Wondrous Oleander Plant - Part 3 of the Oleander Series

(NaturalNews) In the Bible, the oleander plant is referred to as "the desert rose". Perhaps the name given this remarkable plant was no coincidence. Those of you who have read Dan Brown`s entertaining combination of fact and fiction, "The Davinci Code",...

The Hepatitis Epidemic and Natural Remedies That Can Help

(NaturalNews) Hepatitis C is considered an epidemic and is now killing more people than Aids/HIV - 30,000 a year and it`s going to get much worse. Right now, 5 million Americans are infected with Hepatitis C - and most of them don`t know it. That is...

The Four Horsemen of the Health Apocalypse

(NaturalNews) A dark plague has crept across the land, operating largely in shadow for generations and set upon us by an evil master whose footsteps have fouled the earth for as long as man has walked upon it. Led by four evil horsemen who have been...

Healing Illness - A Natural Anti-Cancer Protocol

(NaturalNews) Western medicine treats the body as a collection of parts instead of as a synergistic organism. When it comes to treating broken bones and injured body parts, mainstream Western medicine is unequaled. When this same approach is used to...

Naturopathic Rights Were Included in the Founding of America

(NaturalNews) The FDA, AMA and other powers in mainstream medicine would have us believe that it is their legal and moral duty to protect us from nature and naturopathy and determine which drugs and treatments we are allowed to have. Just the opposite...

Modern Medicine Versus Nature in Treating Cancer

(NaturalNews) In contrast to at least 6000 years of the practice of natural medicine, Western medicine treats the body as a collection of parts instead of as a synergistic organism. When it comes to treating broken bones and injured body parts, mainstream...

Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues

(NaturalNews) The recent widespread mainstream media coverage of the "blue man" Paul Karason and his rare skin condition known as Argyria is the latest in a series of largely misleading and sensationalized scare stories about the dangers of colloidal...

About the author

Tony Isaacs, is a natural health advocate and researcher and the author of books and articles about natural health including "Cancer's Natural Enemy" and "Collected Remedies"as well as song lyrics and humorous anecdotal stories. Mr. Isaacs also has The Best Years in Life website for baby boomers and others wishing to avoid prescription drugs and mainstream managed illness and live longer, healthier and happier lives naturally. He is currently residing in the scenic Texas hill country near Utopia, Texas where he serves as a consultant to the Utopia Silver colloidal silver and supplement company and where he is working on a major book project due for publication later this year. Mr. Isaacs also hosts the CureZone "Ask Tony Isaacs" forum as well as the Yahoo Health Group "Oleander Soup"