by Paul A. Philips The body’s blood pH is between 7.35 and 7.45. The body has homeostatic regulatory mechanisms to keep it within this range or otherwise death would result. Food when eaten and absorbed can influence the body’s blood pH and affect health. Healthy…
by Gaye Levy Having a survival mindset means you are always ready to take on new challenges, right? Although I fully believe that new challenges are a good thing, it is sometimes downright frustrating to recognize that prep as we do, we are never really ready….
Center for Food Safety criticized the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) released Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monsanto’s dicamba-resistant soybeans and cotton. The EIS paves the way for introduction of new crops genetically engineered to survive spraying with the herbicide dicamba. If approved,…
Extra vitamin E protected older mice from a bacterial infection that commonly causes pneumonia. Microbiologists and nutrition researchers from Tufts University report that the extra vitamin E helped regulate the mice’s immune system. The findings, published online in advance of print in the The Journal…
By Jesse Cannone Fingernails and disease don’t go together in most minds… but they should. Your fingernails can give you valuable health warnings and signal the presence of serious disease. Take a good long look at your nails. Hold a hand level with your nose…
by Michelle Goldstein The decision to vaccinate is yours alone, but it is a decision that should not be taken lightly or done under duress or pressure by others. Once vaccinated, the potential side-effects cannot be easily undone, if at all. These include death, sudden…
by Daisy Luther What is a more uncomfortable feeling than relinquishing all of the items that are normally part of your EDC kit? Here’s one: relinquishing those items and boarding a plane to fly across the country. For many preppers, a worst-case scenario for us would…
by Paul A. Philips Cancer manifests as a consequence of two things: Toxicity in the body and stress. It doesn’t matter what type of cancer it is. These two factors are always the root cause. Detoxify the body by good nutrition and take out the…
By Chris Kanthan This is part one in a two-part series… Vaccination is a highly controversial issue. Can a better understanding of the history and the science behind it help people reach a compromise? It’s the most wonderful time of the year when millions of…
By Rachael Bale, Center for Investigative Reporting After our investigation revealed just how much dangerous pesticides it takes to grow strawberries, many people wrote to us saying they would start buying organic. But even that won’t fully address the problem: When they are starting out,…
by Gaye Levy It seems to me that whenever I travel by air, I come home with a sniffle or two. It is not that I am not careful, because I am. It is just that being squeezed into a minuscule airline seat surrounded by…
by Anna Hunt Although most doctors continue to prescribe antibiotics anytime they find signs of infection, these medicines are becoming less and less effective. The overuse of antibiotics has heralded the rise antibiotic–resistant bacteria, and the best defense you have against bacterial infection may be to proactively fortify…
“I am not a scientific experiment” The Mexican Chapter of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal has called on the Mexican government to ban the planting of genetically modified (GM) maize in the country. The decision cited the importance of maize as one of three principal staple…
By Daisy Luther, Organic Prepper There are a lot of reasons that sensible people want to step off of the materialistic rocket ride that is the standard North American Christmas. They may be tired of spending the entire following year working overtime because they are…
Credit: Harvard SEAS By Heather Callaghan In recent years, vaccines have meshed with the world of nanobot medicine. Particles the size of nanometers – approximately 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. They are programmable, spontaneously assembling and can permeate every area…
by Christina England Recently, there has been a flurry of reports in the media claiming that women of childbearing age in Kenya have been vaccinated with tetanus vaccinations containing the anti-fertility hormone hCG, rendering them infertile. The reports came in after doctors from the Kenyan…
By Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper Well, our good friends at the FDA are looking out for us again. Thank goodness we have them to fine us, charges us fees, regulate perfectly natural things, and keep us safe. Heck, who knew that women couldn’t even…
By Heather Callaghan Last Thursday, a town hall meeting at Harvey Government Center in Key West drew a large crowd that erupted in opposition to a proposal to release genetically modified mosquitoes this coming Spring. It’s a proposal from a seemingly strange choice – the…
by Brian Berletic Organic farming is of course environmentally and socially sound, but many critics have argued it simply cannot compete with industrial farming which uses chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and even genetically modified crops. However, a new study conducted by UC Berkeley challenges that…
Natural Blaze MCW researchers find link between sleep deprivation and cell damage… Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) have discovered a link between sleep loss and cell injury. Results of a new study find sleep deprivation causes the damage to cells, especially in…
