Has your doctor said you should have a “preventative CT scan”? This is one of the relatively new techniques used by the conventional medical community to pump you full of radiation under the guise of keeping you cancer-free. (What?) Much like mammography, which can be quite dangerous, these types of screenings often do much more […]

According to statistics, 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug. Considering we live in a country that prides itself on the “War on Drugs”, it doesn’t seem like we’re doing a very good job of reducing dependency. Part of this is due to direct-to-consumer advertising. The Most Prescribed Drugs in the United […]

Recently, I came across a disturbing article about a 22-year-old semi-professional baseball player named Jonathan Stelly who was bullied into having unnecessary pacemaker surgery. After an unusual angiogram, he was informed he needed to get this surgery as soon as possible or risk certain death. When he questioned the recommendation, his nurse practitioner quipped, “You […]