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Carbohydrate Restriction for Type 2 Diabetes Researchers affiliated with Virta Health (San Fransciso, California) have published results from a year-long study of its comprehensive care program that supports people with [...]

Twelve years ago this month--on the advice of multiple gardening books--I started a gardening journal. It marked my determination to grow organic vegetables. One would think that growing vegetables would [...]

Brain Glymphatic Transport Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulates throughout the brain via spaces beside the arteries, exchanges with interstitial fluid, and exits along para-venous pathways to cervical lymphatic [Text unreadable in [...]

Hormetic Stress and Aging 'Our stress responses are not typically thought of as basic mechanisms of aging,' writes Elissa S. Epel in a 2020 review article, 'but indeed they are [...]

I recently came upon a Substack essay by Aruna K Tummala, MD, that examined the hazards of relying solely on psychiatric medications, which are standard-of-care, to treat mental illnesses. [1] [...]

'There is nothing permanent except change,' said the Greek philosopher Heraclitus; and Townsend Letter has dealt with multiple changes over the past 40 years, including its name! It began as [...]

Electrohypersensitivity Diagnosis and Treatment In March 2020, Dominique Belpomme and Philippe Irigaray, who are affiliated with the European Cancer and Environment Research Institute, published a review article about electrohypersensitivity. The [...]

Effects of Masks 'A careful risk-benefit analysis is becoming increasingly relevant for patients and their practitioners regarding the potential long-term effects of masks,' wrote a group of German clinicians and [...]

Gl Microbiome and Aging Does aging lead to a less diverse (and therefore less beneficial) microbiome in the gastrointestinal tract, or does a less diverse microbiome contribute to signs of [...]

The Real Anthony Fauci--Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Skyhorse Publishing; www.skyhorsepublishing.com Hardback and Kindle; 449 pp; c [...]

Vaccines save lives. For Peter Aaby, MSc, DMSc, and Christine Stabell Benn, MD, PhD, DMSc, these words are a proven fact that go beyond public health dogma. Aaby, an anthropologist [...]

Autologous Conditioned Serum for Osteoarthritis Over the past decade, several professional athletes have sought autologous conditioned serum (ACS), known as Orthokine[R], provided by German physician Peter Wehling in Dusseldorf, Germany, [...]

Sperm Count Decline A 2017 systematic review and meta-regression analysis, conducted by an international group of researchers, reported a significant decline in sperm count among Western countries from 1973 to [...]

Over the past few years, I have noticed a marked increase in tactics that limit access to medical information that challenges the pharmaceutical-corporate status quo. Research studies about vaccine safety [...]

The People's Censored Truth Vaxxed II: The People's Truth, a film by Brian Burrowes and Tobias Tommey DVD and streaming at www.vaxxed2.com 90 minutes; c. 2019; $20 (US) DVD in [...]

In late January, as the COVID-19 epidemic in China was making headlines, India's Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy) suggested some preventive measures that included [...]

An Israeli nephrologist, Prof. Benjamin Dekel, and colleagues have developed a technique that has the potential to restore lost kidney function. They have found a way to culture the kidney [...]

Exercise/physical activity is a recommended therapy for people with diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD); but, is moderate or vigorous activity more beneficial? High intensity exercise (anaerobic) has a stronger [...]

Back in August 2016, Joseph Pizzorno, ND, editor-in-chief of Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal, wrote an editorial about the role of environmental chemicals in the 7-to-10-fold increase in type 2 [...]

The December 2, 2019, issue of the British Medical Journal contains an analysis from an international team of researchers, clinicians, regulators, and citizen advocates that discusses the need to produce [...]

Antioxidants, including vitamins C, E, lutein, and zeaxanthin, can slow the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by protecting against oxidative stress that damages retinal cells; but saffron works as [...]

The skin's ability to absorb chemicals in personal care products is well documented, as Anne Marie Fine, NMD, discussed in her June 2019 Townsend Letter article 'The Skin as Exposome: [...]

FDA Whistle-Blowers Public safety is not the FDA bureaucracy's primary focus, according to agency whistle-blowers. About six years ago, a group of FDA scientists, responsible for reviewing medical imaging devices, [...]

Antipyretic Use and Flu Taking aspirin or other antipyretics to reduce fever during flu has become standard advice, yet available research indicates that reducing fever is counterproductive. 'The febrile response, [...]

Acupuncture and PTSD Clinical and animal studies indicate that acupuncture is a helpful adjuvant therapy for several mental conditions, including anxiety and depression; but evidence for its value in treating [...]

Thirty years ago, in 1983, Sally K. Ride became the first US woman astronaut to enter space; Motorola began testing cellular phone service in Chicago; and Jonathan Collin, MD, published [...]

European Elderberry For centuries, both the flower and the fruit of the European elderberry (Sambucus nigra L.) shrub--delivered as teas, syrups, and juice--have been used to prevent and treat colds, [...]

Balneotherapy Balneotherapy refers simply to soaking in warm natural spring water (at least 68 °F/20 °C and usually about 93 ° F/34 ° C) that contains at least 1 gram [...]

Atopic Conditions and Introducing Solid Foods As the incidence of atopic diseases such as asthma, atopic dermatitis, and food allergies continues to rise among children, the timing of solid food [...]

The HPV Vaccine on Trial by Mary Holland, JD, Kim Mack Rosenberg, JD, and Eileen lorio Foreword by Dr. Luc Montagnier Skyhorse Publishing, New York, New York; www.skyhorsepublishing.com Softbound; 461 [...]

At the December 8, 2020, US Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing, pulmonologist and critical care specialist Pierre Kory presented studies and other documentation showing that the anti-parasitic [...]

My experience at the Association of Health Care Journalists' 2005 conference (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) incited much puzzling and questioning about bias. At first, I felt like an interloper. After [...]

My experience at the Association of Health Care Journalists' 2005 conference (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) incited much puzzling and questioning about bias. At first, I felt like an interloper. After [...]

Since Townsend Letter's original publication of 'Relighting the Inner Flame' in August/September 1996, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have redefined depression. An estimated 67.5 million people have started a SSRI [...]

Concerns about indoor air quality and the rising incidence of asthma and allergies have made portable air cleaners a big business. US consumers spent about $275 million on these devices [...]

The Cost of Lost Connections Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression--and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari Hardback; ISBN 978-1-63286-830-5; 321 pp; $28.00 (US) Johann Hari, journalist and [...]

Physical distancing--even lockdowns that quarantine healthy, at-risk, and exposed alike--have become a normal part of life in many countries that are dealing with the COVID-19 epidemic. As researchers at Harvard's [...]

Do gut bacteria and the compounds they produce have a role in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)? In a 2018 review article, Stefano Bibbo et al reviewed the literature that [...]

A 2019 study, conducted by researchers from Saudi Arabia, Lithuania, and the US (HeartMath and NASA Ames Research Center), found evidence that solar activity and geomagnetic activity affect heart rate [...]

Many drugs used to control high blood pressure produce zinc deficiency, according to a 2018 study from Poland. The researchers recruited 98 patients (61 females; 37 males) who had not [...]

A 2016 British systematic review of 66 studies found 'a strong and dose-dependent association' between atopic dermatitis (AD), food allergy (FA), and food sensitization. The studies were too diverse to [...]

Imagine speaking for a mere 45 seconds into a microphone that connects to a computer and from that voice sample gaining insight into the status of your musculoskeletal system, biochemistry, [...]

Katinka van der Merwe, DC, specializes in helping people with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). She views people with CRPS and related conditions, such as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), as [...]

People with multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS; also known as chemical hypersensitivity, environmental illness, and sick building syndrome) must contend with treatment barriers that people with more widely understood illnesses do [...]

Recognizing that fathers as well as mothers can develop depression after the birth of a child is vital for the individuals themselves as well as for the well-being of their [...]

The aspartame controversy has been ongoing for decades. Pro-aspartame sites keep repeating 'safety proven by over 100 trials' (without references) and attack Betty Martini, an anti-aspartame activist. Anti-aspartame sites often [...]

Medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) found in coconut and palm kernel oil appear to benefit people with neurodegenerative disease, says neonatalogist Mary T. Newport, MD, in articles on the website www.coconutketones.com. [...]

On October 24, 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it was withdrawing the Compliance Policy Guide 400.400, 'Conditions Under Which Homeopathic Drugs May Be Marketed,' which [...]

Unlike conventional cancer therapy, alternative programs usually emphasize the importance of diet. The American Cancer Society and the American Institute for Cancer Research (a nonprofit organization that supports 'research into [...]

In January 2008, researchers at Duke University Medical Center (Durham, North Carolina) reported that Splenda negatively affected gastrointestinal flora and the cytochrome P-450 detoxification system in male rats. The Duke [...]