#24
16 December, 2023
Townsend‘s publisher asks if we are losing possible health benefits as vaccination rates decline, due to mistrust engendered by covid vaccines, reviews a new documentary about alternative treatment for cancer, and invites readers to share holiday joy and the Townsend e-Letter with friends and family.
CLICK TO READ: Letter from the Publisher
The effects of sleep position and breathing on the brain’s lymphatic system, using vitamin C to treat whooping cough, posture’s effect on mood, essential oils for sleep, and more are the topics in this Townsend Letter column.
CLICK TO READ: Shorts
Supplementation with vitamin C and other nutrients and a diet that increases protein consumption and eliminates sugar have decreased withdrawal symptoms in people with opioid addiction.
CLICK TO READ: Nutritional Treatments for Opioid Addiction
Green Tea and Women’s Health, Part 2
Tori Hudson, ND
Green tea and green tea extracts with components like EGCG have reduced symptoms caused by uterine fibroids and bladder infections, and may reduce breast cancer risk.
CLICK TO READ: Green Tea and Women’s Health, Part 2
Individual Variation in Drug Response
Benton Bramwell, ND,
and Matt Warnock
Inflammation, reduced hepatic and renal blood flow that comes with aging, gender, and genetic variants are among the factors that affect how a person metabolizes and responds to drugs, including metformin.
CLICK TO READ: Individual
Variation in Drug Response
In 2015, the US National Toxicology Program initiated a review of scientific research on fluoride and its neurodevelopmental and cognitive health effects; the review has not yet been published.
CLICK TO READ: US National Toxicology Program’s Long-Awaited Review on Fluoride Toxicity
Members of Parents of Fluoride-Poisoned Children-Canada implore the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ National Toxicology Program to include scientific studies about fluoride-iodine ratio, thyroid dysfunction, and neurotoxicity in NTP’s most recent assessment of fluoride.
CLICK TO READ: PFPC Letter to Richard Woychik, Director, NTP & NIEHS
The conclusion to Chapter 1 introduces the work of Gregory Bateson, Lynn Margulis, and others who found that microbes communicate and make decisions based on their past experiences and their perceptions of the environment.
CLICK TO READ: Book Excerpt: How to Build a Biocivilisation, Part 2
Exposing blood to ultraviolet-C light is known to kill or inactivate bacteria and viruses; it also appears to inactive the spike protein that causes “long-haul” covid—as evidenced by a decline in D-Dimer levels.
CLICK TO READ: Persistent Spike Protein Syndrome Rapid Resolution with Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation
Christine Bowen, ND
Personal experience with a diet, first used nearly 100 years ago to treat inflammatory bowel disease, led this ND to use diet as her first-line intervention for people with digestive disorders and autoimmunity.
CLICK TO READ: The Specific Carbohydrate Diet: Transforming Primary Care for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Metabolites produced by gut microbiota, such as lipopolysaccharides and short chain fatty acids, affect vagus nerve input on the central nervous system, impacting mood, cognition, inflammation, and more.
CLICK TO READ: Gut-Brain Communication: Major Mechanisms in Mental-Emotional Health and Disease
This book by Edward Dowd documents the excess death rate and increased disability rate among healthy, working-age Americans that began climbing in 2021, a year after the covid pandemic began.
CLICK TO READ: Book Review: Cause Unknown – The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022
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