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If you want to increase your prostate health, there are several other things you can do in addition to lowering your fat intake and eating whole flaxseed.

Bacteria have the ability to convey their resistance to each other by passing DNA-containing organisms back and forth. If a bacterium is resistant to a drug, that information is passed along to other bacteria receiving its DNA.

Imagine if you had a rare form of skin cancer and volunteered for a drug trial to test a revolutionary product that would "probably" cure your cancer. After just 8 short weeks, the researchers told you that your cancer was virtually cured.

Chameleon-like microbes may be causing your chronic or autoimmune disorder
Multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, and lupus are insidious diseases that have stymied mainstream medicine for over a century. But growing research into stealth-like microbes may hold the key to offering patients the hope they’ve been searching for. These microbes now appear to be [...]

The pharmaceutical industry’s placebo scam
Placebos. Sugar pills. Dummy tablets. Think these are inert-inactive-substances that have no effect?
Not only are placebos not sugar pills, but in many cases they are deliberately formulated so they will have an effect. Thanks to HSI panelist Allan Spreen, M.D., we were recently alerted to this medical contradiction, which makes the [...]