The widely used herbicide Roundup has made headlines lately because thousands of people say it gave them cancer.
A federal jury recently ordered the maker of the chemical weed killer to pay $80 million to a 70-year-old man with cancer. The jury found that Roundup was a “substantial factor” in his illness.[i]
The World Health Organization calls glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, a “probable human carcinogen.”
Glyphosate is by far the most widely used herbicide in the U.S.
… Read MoreWe’ve been telling you for years that statin drugs are overprescribed. Nearly 30% of Americans over 40 take them to lower their cholesterol. But mainstream doctors ignore the fact that more 75% of people who suffer heart attacks have normal or low levels of cholesterol.
And they downplay the side effects. They include muscle aches and increased risk of diabetes. They are also linked to memory loss, artery calcification, and vitamin deficiencies.
… Read MoreMainstream doctors have one message when it comes to “bad” LDL cholesterol: The lower, the better.
That’s why they pump you full of statins, hoping to decrease your LDL readings as low as they possibly can.
But new research shows they may be doing grave damage to your health.
The study was published in the journal Neurology. Scientists looked at the medical records of 27,937 subjects who were enrolled in the Women’s Health Study.
… Read MoreWhen you suffer side effects after taking a pill, naturally you blame it on the drug in the pill. But in many cases, it actually has nothing to do with the drug.
What most people don’t know is that the majority of the material in pills are so-called inactive ingredients.
But they are far from inactive, according to a new report.
… Read MoreWhen robotic surgery first became popular a few years ago, it seemed like an idea whose time had come.
We’ve all heard horror stories about human surgeons making horrible mistakes.
Robotics promised to take human error out of the equation.
Robots never have shaky hands. They are more precise than a human can be. They can operate in tiny spaces too small for a surgeon to reach.
… Read MoreIt’s a full-on epidemic…
The number of people with diabetes has doubled over the past 30 years.
More than 100 million American adults now have diabetes or its precursor, prediabetes.
Now, a new study has uncovered a surprising hidden cause for diabetes…statin drugs.
It shows that it may be no coincidence that diabetes rates have skyrocketed at exactly the same time doctors began prescribing more statins.
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