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Hyaluronic Acid Knee Injections
A 1994 seminar on prolotherapy and personal experience with relieving his own knee pain led Dr. Lobay to investigate hyaluronic acid and other agents that can reduce pain and improve joint function. ...

Recent Research on Membrane Lipid Replacement with NTFactor Lipids®: Enhancement of Nutrient Bioavailability and Reductions in Symptom Severities in Chemically Exposed Veterans
When veterans of the 1990 Persian Gulf War developed a debilitating array of symptoms, including chronic fatigue, severe pain, and cognitive impairment, Garth L. Nicolson, PhD, was in the forefront of the search for cause and treatments. In addition to restoring cellular membrane function, dietary protected polyunsaturated glycerolphospholipids increase absorption and transport of oral supplements and reduce symptoms in chronically ill Gulf War veterans, according to recent studies....

Monkeypox Infection: To Fear or Not to Fear?
Bio-oxidative therapies (vitamin C, hydrogen peroxide, ozone, ultraviolet blood irradiation, and hyperbaric oxygen) can resolve viral infections, including monkeypox....

Healing Chronic Back Pain
The case study of a college student who experienced severe injury during a motorcycle accident shows the power of visualization and cognitive behavior techniques as a way to decrease chronic pain and improve health....

Letter from The Publisher #472 – November 2022
TL’s publisher reviews the book Transforming Trauma, considers the timing of anti-hypertensives, comments on the August NEJM ivermectin study, and highlights this month’s cover article by Prof. Garth Nicolson and colleagues....

Table of Contents November 2022~ Issue #472
The November 2022 Townsend Letter looks at Fibromyalgia, chronic pain, autoimmune disease, long covid vs. chronic fatigue, and more!...

Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever
“Seronegative Lyme” can be a tick-borne infection caused by a different group of Borrelia bacteria. Using multiple testing methods, practitioners can differentiate between the types of infections....

The Brain: Effects of Molds and Mycotoxins
Toxins produced by molds can cross the blood-brain barrier, causing inflammation and damaging cells – thereby affecting brain function....

Medically Integrated Electrophysiology for the Assessment and Treatment of Cognitive Impairment and Memory Loss
Office-based electroencephalography lets practitioners evaluate patients’ cognitive function and their response to treatment....

Reduce Anxiety
Posture and breathing, both of which are self-modifiable, were key factors in a program to reduce anxiety and stress in college students....
Best Reads

Osteoporosis in Women: A Look at Risk Factors, Risk Assessment, Bone Density Testing, and Overview of Treatments
By Tori Hudson, ND Osteoporosis is one of the chronic health conditions for which many women seek my input and recommendations. This is a challenging area for practitioners who have...

Integrative Management of Respiratory Illnesses
by Jeremy Mikolai, ND, and Martin Milner, ND Introduction Infections of the respiratory system commonly present to the outpatient primary care setting. The first decision for the primary care provider...

Beyond Antibiotics: Newer Alternative Approaches to Chronic Lyme Disease Treatment
by Connie Strasheim New treatments for chronic Lyme disease are continually emerging, as researchers and health care practitioners learn more about the infections, co-morbidities, and other problems commonly involved in...

Current Controversies: Innumeracy in Medicine
By Ira L. Goodman, MD, FACS, ABIHM, FAARM We all have an idea of what illiteracy is. In its extreme, it's the inability to read, either because of a neurological...

Multifactorial Approaches to Lyme Infection
by Dan Kenner, PhD, LAc The term Lyme-literate is used to describe physicians and health-care providers who regard Lyme disease as a complex multifactorial and hydra-headed clinical syndrome. There are numerous challenges...

Kidney Skin Detox
By Dr. Jenna C Henderson Patients with chronic kidney disease are looking for a way to boost kidney function, and those with late-stage kidney disease hope to stave off the need...

Ritalin-Free Kids: Homeopathy for ADHD
Healing with Homeopathy by Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, ND, DHANP, LCSW,and Robert Ullman, ND More than Ever an Epidemic of ADHD So went the catchy phrase that we used in 1996, when...

Psychoemotional Trauma: The Elephant in the Waiting Room
by Sandro D'Amico, ND A dichotomy in the conception of mind and body has long existed in Western thought and continues to permeate the organization and practice of medicine. For...

What to Do When Patients Wish to Discontinue Their Psychotropic Medications? Effective Tapering Strategies to Limit Drug Withdrawal and Destabilization: a Clinician’s Perspective
by Jonathan E. Prousky, ND, MSc THIRD PLACE WINNER!Best of Naturopathic Medicine 2013 Abstract: The author's private clinical practice focuses on the evaluation and treatment of mental disorders. One of...

Helicobacter Pylori: Foe; Sometimes Friend
by Stephen Olmstead, MD; Kathleen Burns, MSN, RN, NP; Dennis Meiss, PhD; and Janet Ralston, BS The Gastric Microbiota and Helicobacter Pylori Until 1983, conventional medical wisdom decreed that low...

Fatigue, Immunity and Inflammation: Their Resolution Using Natural Medicine
by Michael Ash, BSc, DO, ND, DipION; Robert Settenari, MS; and Prof. Garth L. Nicolson, PhD Overview At some point we all experience fatigue, but it usually resolves on its...

Healing with Stem Cells: My Journey
by David A. Steenblock, MS, DO There is a natural and rather ego-gratifying tendency among most of us doctors to believe that "real" medicine began with our practice of it....

The Biology of Hope
by Leigh Erin Connealy, MD Introduction We are at a point in time where medicine is coming back to whole body health care from a reductionist view that has dominated...

A Mystery Answer to Restoring Brain Health
by David I. Minkoff, MD, Julie Mayer Hunt, DC, DICCP, FCCJP, and Ron Tribell For the past 20 years I have worked with patients who have had a chronic illness. From...

Metabolic Therapies in Advanced “Salvage” Cancer Cases
by Dr. Paul S. Anderson, NMD An excellent example of true therapeutic synergy was discovered in the earlier days of my IV research (under the NIH-funded Bastyr Integrative Oncology Research...

Favorably Altering the GI Microbiome with Exercise
by David M. Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN, IFMCP SUBSCRIBE TODAY! As preventative health continues to be a primary focus, we continue to seek out ways to improve health through...

Enhancing the Skin Microbiome to Address Inflammatory Dermatologic Conditions
by Trevor Cates, ND Imbalances in the skin microbiome play a key role in skin disorders; and while most microbiome research to date has been focused on the gastrointestinal tract,...

The Trials and Tribulations of Assuring Ascorbic Acid Injection Availability – The Struggle Is Over!
By Ronald M. McGuff President, McGuff Pharmaceuticals, Inc. For those of us on the supply side who have lived it, keeping ascorbic acid injection (AAI) available to physicians has been...

Diseases of the Male Genital Urinary Tract – Prevention Is the Best Cure
Thomas A. Kruzel, ND Men begin to experience diseases of the prostate beginning with the onset of puberty and the physical, hormonal and biochemical maturation of the organs of reproduction....

The Truth About Pain – A Different Paradigm
by Hal S. Blatman, MD I played golf with sharp and disabling lower back pain for twenty-five years before I learned how to make it go away. Trigger point injections...

The Craving Cure: The Nutritional Solution to Our Worldwide Dietary Crisis
by Julia Ross Many of those coming to us for dietary help find it difficult or impossible to follow our suggestions because of their overpowering cravings. In fact, cravings for...

Myth Busting Common Misconceptions of Kidney Disease
by Dr. Jenna C. Henderson The kidneys may well be the most misunderstood of all the major organs. Patients often fail to grasp the seriousness of their condition and, without...

A Push-Catch System That Enables Effective Detoxification
by Christopher Shade, PhD, and Carrie Decker, ND The human body is exposed to environmental toxins every day from a wide array of sources: particulate matter and diesel fumes...

Stop Fixing the Adaptive Response: Why Cardiovascular Disease Should Be Named Chronic Scurvy
By Daniel Cobb, OMD Note: In this article, the terms "chronic scurvy," "heart disease," and "cardiovascular disease" (CVD) refer to the accumulation of damage, most commonly in the coronary arteries,...

Impact of TACT on Conventional Cardiovascular Therapy
by L. Terry Chappell, MD Introduction After decades of conflict between conventional physicians and alternative doctors who recognized EDTA chelation therapy as an effective treatment for coronary artery disease, the...

Updates on the Treatment of Drug Addiction
by Carolyn Ross, MD, MPH Mark presented in my office in withdrawal from opiate use disorder (heroin). He reported using up to 2 grams a day of heroin intravenously. His...

Lithium: The Untold Story of the Magic Mineral That Charges Cell Phones and Preserves Memory
by James Greenblatt, MD, and Kayla Grossmann, RN As far as cosmologists can tell, there were only three elements present when the universe was first formed some 13.8 billion years...
Recent Blog Posts

Helicobactor Pylori… Friend AND Foe?
For almost four decades, we’ve been told that Helicobacter pylori is a nasty bacterium that causes gastritis, peptic ulcers, and gastric cancer. But a June 2013 article in Townsend Letter,...

Brain Chatter
If you are fascinated by the brain, read My Stroke of Insight, one of the many wonderful books that I’ve reviewed for Townsend Letter over the years.1 The author, Jill...
Pharma Windfall
Pharma’s Windfall While the COVID-19 pandemic has decimated lives and livelihoods, the pharmaceutical industry has experienced a windfall—from the billions of dollars for experimental vaccines1 and their expensive new drugs...

Medical Shortage and COVID
Another Plea for Early COVID Treatment As I write this in late January, the local hospital here in South Carolina has been overrun with sick, COVID-positive patients for weeks. The...

The Power of the Small
I recently watched Symbiotic Earth – How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution, a documentary by John Feldman. Margulis, an evolutionary biologist, championed the idea that...

The High Cost of Pharma Bias
When COVID-19 first hit the US, I was surprised and happy to see the corporate news stories about the use of high-dose intravenous vitamin C as a treatment. But it...

Looking Past the Headlines
Several years ago, I wrote an article for Townsend Letter called “Bias, Research and Complementary & Alternative Medicine.”1 As part of the research for that article, I looked at how...

What is Health?
At the February 26, 2020, CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) discussion on an Ebola vaccine and its use in healthy people, this question arose: what is meant by...

Placebo Effect on Plants?
Have you ever tried an experiment that produced results beyond your wildest expectations? Late in March, I noticed that my little Meyer lemon tree, which had lived happily in its...

A Repeat of History?
When corporate media began inundating us with the message that millions will die from COVID-19, government leaders mandated “shelter-in-place” and quarantine measures, and Dr. Fauci said we must maintain this...

Bread, the Staff of Life?
I've met many people, including myself, who have found digestion improves and unwanted pounds disappear when bread is eliminated from the diet. Alan Gaby, MD, reports in his Literature Review...

Hydrotherapy
After an afternoon of yardwork, I’ll often enjoy a soak in a hot tub with Epsom salts to help relax sore muscles. But it’s only recently that I became aware...

The Hazy View of Environmental Protection
Three civil trials conducted against Monsanto (owned by Bayer) in recent years have awarded millions to plaintiffs. The plaintiffs, all of whom regularly used Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup for several years,...

Start with the Simple
A friend was experiencing daily diarrhea, no other symptoms. It was to the point that she worried about being too far from a bathroom. The diarrhea disappeared when she stopped...

Double-Blind Studies
Is the Gold Standard Fool’s Gold? Recently, my vet prescribed a new medication for my dog’s severe musculoskeletal pain. It didn’t seem to have any effect over the next week....

Sugar and Vitamin C
In the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic, doctors in China and in New York have begun to use intravenous ascorbic acid (vitamin C) to treat hospitalized patients. But intravenous treatment...

Protesting 5G
Protesting 5G Climate change isn’t the only target for activism. A group of dedicated activists in my town are working to educate the city council about 5G wireless technology safety...

Affordable Care Act
by Jule Klotter It’s no surprise that health care affordability is still a hot topic for the Democrats seeking the 2020 nomination for president. Health care costs for pharmaceuticals and...

Getting It
by Jule Klotter In his book The Way of the Physician (1985), philosopher Jacob Needleman wrote: "…throughout history, we can see that [the relationship between doctor and patient] has been...

Shades of Planet of the Apes!
Katherine A. Carroll, Executive Director of National Health Federation, has written a piece about animal-human hybrids (chimeras) that are being engineered to fill the need for organs for transplant patients.1 Researchers...

Philosophy, Medicine, and Choices
Albert Einstein said: I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ For if we decide that the universe is an unfriendly place, then...

Displacing Foods
This past summer, I was fortunate to attend the 2019 Cullowhee Native Plant Conference at Western Carolina University (NC) in the Smokey Mountains. I was raised a city girl and...

New Science Supports Homeopathy
Of all the various modalities used in complementary and alternative health care, homeopathy stands out as arguably the most controversial. Even at its beginning when German physician Samuel Hahnemann in...

Play in a Stressed-Out World
Do you have enough playtime in your everyday life? The older we get, the more responsibilities and must-do tasks demand our attention. Working adults tend to reject play as a...

Testing the Effect of Food on Multiple Sclerosis
Never underestimate the power of real food as medicine. Terry L. Wahls, MD, is the senior author on two 2017 clinical studies that looked at the use of lifestyle measures...

Herbicides and Antibiotic Resistance
The connection between cancer and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer/Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, has been headline news over the past months. Juries have awarded multi-million-dollar awards to plaintiffs who claim...

Exercise, Sleep Quality, and Clock Genes
Yujiro Yamanaka Yujiro Yamanaka and colleagues found that the time of day we exercise influences the autonomic nervous system. Their study involved 22 healthy young males; seven acted as the...

The “Quack” Cancer Treatment That Showed Promise
Ideas or worldviews that challenge the dominant view have always been ignored—or if the spokesman talks too loudly—censored and punished. The history of cancer treatments is full of such stories....















