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Soil Minerals and Immune System Dysfunction

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Following a discussion of the origin of minerals, the article points out that organic farming focuses on feeding the soil and the soil microflora within it, meaning that organic pro...

Essential Fatty Acids - in the Evolution of the Brain

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This article challenges scientists long-held perceptions of evolutionary theory, explaining the function of essential fatty acids (EFAs), discussing their role in evolution and sugg...

Magnetic Therapy in Practice

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A middle-aged, previously healthy woman suddenly started having epileptic fits. Going from specialist to specialist, she was fortunate to find another doctor specialising in complem...

The Importance of Minerals to Health

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At a time when we have just begun to get our minds around the 43 or so essential nutrients, we are now informed there may be some 40 more: many of which, unless we were familiar wit...

Mineral Deficiency and Viral Mutation: Nutritional, Agricultural and Geographic Influences

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This article hypothesizes whether many of the devastating influenzas such as avian flu and Beijing flu which originate from China, may lie with mineral levels in the soil.

Epigenetics - Current and Past Progress

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To understand current progress in epigenetics we need briefly to visit 5th century BCE Greek thought onwards to our own 19th century CE. Empedocles, Heraclitus, Democritus, Hippocra...

Viruses Mutate more Readily in Selenium-Deficient Surroundings

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Even though selenium is critically important for good human health, its value is not widely known. It is important both for the prevention of selenium-related deficiency diseases an...

Colloidal Silver – Master Antimicrobial, Antifungal and Antiviral Agent

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We are slowly emerging into a new era of treating disease with minerals rather than the antibiotics which have been so over-used that many bacteria have evolved strategies for rende...

Toward a Unified Theory of Evolution

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This is a story of the quest to understand evolution. During the last three centuries, with increasing knowledge, research has led us from Lamarck, with his theory of the Inheritan...

Nutrition, Evolution and Environment

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The dangerous fallacy - of "the all-sufficiency of natural selection’’ to which the scientific and cultural world has adhered since the late 19th  century has now been exposed as i...

Does our Current Understanding of Epigenetics Now Expose Neo-Darwinism as Pseudo-Science?

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When Charles Darwin died in 1882 it took less than 10 years for August Weismann from Freiburg University to publish his theory The Germ-Plasm: A Theory of Heredity in 1893. Better k...