Imagine a deadly infectious disease that spreads like wildfire. No drugs can stop it.
Millions of Americans get it. Tens of thousands die in agony.
It sounds like an apocalyptic horror movie. But a new study shows it’s actually happening now.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just updated their comprehensive report on antibiotic-resistant infections. They found that 2.8 million people in the U.S.… Read More
Taking prescription drugs has become a roll of the dice…
Some 128,000 Americans a year now die from the effects of medications prescribed to them. This number doesn’t include overdose deaths—only people who took their drugs as prescribed.[1]
Prescription drugs have become the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. They kill more Americans than breast cancer, prostate cancer, homicide, and suicide combined.… Read More
For months, Jeopardy host Alex Trebek was plagued by stomach pain. He had no idea what was causing it.
Eventually, he went to the doctor and got a terrible diagnosis: pancreatic cancer. And it had advanced to stage 4, which is considered incurable. Median survival is only three to six months.[1]
The good news is that Trebek has already beat those odds.… Read More
Doctors didn’t know what to make of it. They had never seen it before…
The patient was peeing purple.
A 70-year-old woman had been hospitalized with a stroke. Her doctors reported that the woman’s urine “appeared purple.”
At first, the medical staff was at a loss to explain it.
Urine color is, in fact, a common diagnostic indicator. But none of the doctors had ever heard of purple urine.… Read More
Antibiotics are a double-edged sword.
They not only kill germs that make you sick, they destroy the good bacteria in your intestines that contribute to your health in a myriad of ways.
Your body is home to about 100 million beneficial bacteria. Together, they are called your microbiome.
And when your microbiome is damaged, you lose the protection it provides against a wide range of serious health problems.… Read More
We’ve all heard the horror stories about illnesses spreading like wildfire among cruise ship passengers.
The fact is, a cruise ship is the perfect incubator for contagious disease. People are packed close together, making it easy for germs to spread.
The norovirus is the biggest culprit.
It causes stomach flu. The CDC estimates that 1 in 10 cruise ship passengers become infected with the norovirus while on board.… Read More