By Joseph Mercola, DO According to a 2020 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 34.1 million U.S. adults had diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes in 2018. There were slightly more men than women, and more white, non-Hispanic people with diabetes than Black, Asian or Hispanic people combined. Just two years later, these numbers […]
Recent media reports employ familiar scare tactics to convince us that melatonin is unsafe—and they are just as wrong as ever. Action Alert! The headlines paint a bleak picture. “Thousands of kids are getting sick from downing melatonin pills.” The number of children “overdosing” on melatonin has “skyrocketed” in recent years, according to other headlines. […]
Search the mainstream medical journals, even search the Internet, and you won’t find this undeniably simple answer. Everywhere you look, conventional medicine is singing the same tune: the Mayo Clinic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health all say that even though there is no cure for herpes, the best […]
Do you want your child to have a yearly COVID shot? That’s where we at ANH think we’re heading. The federal government is currently considering whether to authorize COVID vaccines for children under five years of age; the shots have already been approved for Americans aged five and up. It appears that the obsession with […]
…in updated opioid treatment guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Action Alert! The CDC recently proposed an updated set of recommendations for how and when to prescribe opioid medications. Doctors are, and should be, free to prescribe what they feel is necessary to help their patients—but should the federal government be […]
…In order to turn it into a restricted and expensive drug. Why? The FDA has declared that N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a vital antioxidant with essential health benefits, is not a legal dietary supplement. The rationale is that it was long ago approved as a drug before it was sold as a supplement, but in practice banning the supplement […]
New numbers from the CDC show us who is unnecessarily dying from COVID-19. Action Alert! The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released new estimates on how deadly the COVID-19 virus is by age-group. In what the agency considers the current best estimate, the virus is considerably more deadly than the seasonal flu […]
Inconsistency in government recommendations causes confusion. Imagine that? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reversed their recommendations on mask-wearing. Before April 3, the agency’s guidelines told those of us outside of healthcare settings not to wear masks, which were only for people who were sick or caring for people who were sick. […]
…according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But the establishment is looking in all the wrong places for the solution. Action Alert! The CDC report, which followed almost 6,000 people aged 12 to 34 from 2005 to 2016, demonstrates the shocking rise in prediabetes—where blood sugar levels are […]
Let’s stop deceptive sugar labeling now! Action Alert! We need labeling in teaspoons, not just grams. Who knows how much a gram is? If someone is caught putting cocaine in a child’s snack pack, they go to jail, as it should be. Yet an entire industry has been hiding copious amounts of highly addictive, poisonous […]