Category: Health Tips

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•Natural light is an essential nutrient many of us do not have enough of within our bodies. Because of this, when ultraviolet light is added to the bloodstream, phenomenal health benefits emerge.

•Once ultraviolet blood irradiation (UVBI) was discovered in the 1930s, it produced miraculous results for patients on the verge of death and was quickly adopted by hospitals throughout America. There, it demonstrated remarkable efficacy for a wide range of diseases, and the doctors who pioneered its use compiled a large body of research.

•To neutralize this competition, the American Medical Association published a small doctored study that “debunked” UVBI, and before long it became a forgotten side of medicine. The Russians and Germans however recognized the value of it, and for decades have produced research showing UBVI’s remarkable utility for a variety of challenging medical conditions both within and outside the hospital. However, in America, UVBI is primarily used by integrative practitioners who need effective tools to treat complex illnesses (e.g., Lyme disease, Chronic fatigue syndrome, spike protein injuries, or migraine disorders).

•In this article we will review the hundreds of studies showing UVBI’s utility for a wide range of medical conditions (e.g., cardiovascular diseases, infertility, preventing miscarriages, many autoimmune disorders, preventing complications from surgery, and treating a myriad of challenging bacterial and viral infections), explain how UVBI works, and provide the resources for those wishing to best utilize this therapy.

In this publication, I have attempted to make the case that we are routinely denied vital knowledge, treatment, and care, in order to protect the interests of the medical industrial complex (as you can only sell costly but abysmal therapeutics to people if no alternatives exist). As that is a rather extreme allegation to make, I’ve tried to show piece by piece how this is indeed the case. For example:

•I’ve highlighted how many unsafe and ineffective pharmaceuticals make it to market (and sometimes are even mandated) because the panels that approved them were stacked with people taking money from the manufacturer (which I recently argued was a tactic Anthony Fauci weaponized against America).

•I’ve discussed how in the early 1900s, the American Medical Association was taken over by a group of unscrupulous businessmen who decided to fund the association by unconditionally promoting anything they were paid to (which amongst other things is why there were so many AMA advertisements of doctors promoting smoking) while simultaneously using the government to outlaw each competing therapy that refused to sell out to them.

•I’ve shown how American society has been methodically separated from the fundamental requirements for good health (e.g., sleep or sunlight), how damaging losing each of those is, and just how far the marketing industry often goes to ensure we never reclaim those basic requirements for health.

Assuming the first three are indeed true, it then suggests that a variety of remarkable medical innovations exist that have been buried. In this article, I will discuss one of those, ultraviolet blood irradiation (UVBI), both because there is a vast body of evidence for its use and because, unlike many of the other lost medical technologies, it’s still relatively accessible.

Continue reading: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-century-of-evidence-putting-light

 

David Franklin had spent months watching his company sell a drug to patients it was never approved to treat. He had the files. He had the proof. Now he had a decision to make.

The drug was Neurontin, a brand name for gabapentin. The FDA had approved it in 1993 for one narrow purpose: controlling seizures in epilepsy patients.

That was not how Parke-Davis was selling it.

Franklin worked as a medical liaison, a scientist paid to brief doctors on the evidence behind the company’s products. Beginning in 1996, he watched colleagues and supervisors instruct sales representatives to pitch Neurontin for conditions it had never been proven to treat: chronic pain, migraines, bipolar disorder, attention disorders, and more.

This was off-label promotion. It was illegal. And it was happening systematically.

Worse, Franklin discovered the company had buried the results of clinical trials that had failed to show Neurontin worked for these conditions. Doctors making prescribing decisions were not seeing the full picture. Patients were taking a drug based on hidden science.

In 1996, Franklin filed suit under the False Claims Act, a Civil War-era law that allows private citizens to sue on the government’s behalf when federal funds are defrauded. Medicaid and other federal programs were reimbursing millions of prescriptions written on the basis of the company’s misleading claims.

The legal battle ran for eight years.

Parke-Davis was acquired by Warner-Lambert. Warner-Lambert was acquired by Pfizer in 2000, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The lawsuit followed the merger through every corporate transformation.

On May 13, 2004, Pfizer agreed to a settlement of $430 million. It included a $240 million criminal fine, the largest ever levied against a pharmaceutical company at that time for off-label marketing. Warner-Lambert entered a guilty plea.

Franklin received a portion of the civil recovery as the original whistleblower.

Neurontin remained on the market. Gabapentin is still widely prescribed. The case did not end off-label promotion in the pharmaceutical industry. But it established a legal template: individual scientists with evidence could file, survive, and win against companies many times their size.

A microbiologist. A courthouse. Eight years of waiting.

Sometimes one person with a file cabinet and a lawyer is enough.

1. Whisk 300 ml (double) cream
2. Add and whisk 2 egg yolks
3. Add vanilla and a pinch of salt
4. Add honey or other natural sweetener

Freeze and stir every hour for two or 3 hours.

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Hi Tom,

When you read the calorie count on a food label, do you assume that’s exactly what your body takes in?

I did, for years.

A new study suggests that isn’t quite true.

Researchers at Arizona State University have built a mathematical model, called DAMM, that follows food all the way through the highways and byways of your digestive tract. It estimates how much energy your body absorbs early on. And how much your gut bacteria add from whatever is left over.

That second part never makes it onto the label.

The calorie numbers on packaging come from a system more than 100 years old. Each gram of fat, carbohydrate, and protein gets an average calorie value, and the total is added up. It’s simple, and it’s useful. But it doesn’t ask what happens to the food that reaches your colon, or what your gut bacteria do with it.

And they do quite a lot.

Fiber and resistant starch that your own digestion can’t break down get fermented by gut bacteria into short-chain fatty acids. Some of those are absorbed into your bloodstream and used as energy.

According to the model, that adds up to about 140 calories a day. Roughly 7% of the usable energy in the diet came from what your gut bacteria made out of the food you couldn’t digest yourself.

When the researchers tested the model against real measurements from a controlled feeding study, it came closer than the traditional calorie method.

This is the part I found most interesting.

In that earlier study, healthy adults ate either a high-fiber, less processed diet or a typical Western-style diet. The people on the Western diet absorbed about 116 more calories a day.

And the people eating all that extra fiber didn’t report feeling any hungrier.

Which seems backwards at first.

The high-fiber diet gave their gut bacteria far more to work with, and they made more short-chain fatty acids. Yet overall, those people absorbed fewer calories. The upper gut took in less, and the microbes didn’t fully make up the difference.

A few caveats are worth knowing. DAMM is a research model, not a diet plan. It was tested against one small study of 17 healthy adults, and the authors say it needs testing in more people, including those with metabolic conditions, before anyone uses it to tailor diets. And, I will add, 116 calories a day isn’t a weight-loss strategy I know!

But what it does show is something I keep coming back to: Your food provides the raw materials. Your gut bacteria decide what happens next.

Which means fiber-rich, less processed foods aren’t just “good for you” in some vague way. They’re feeding a community of microbes that is doing real work on your behalf.

So, the next time you glance at a calorie label, remember it’s only half the story. The other half is happening in your gut.

Yours for better health, naturally,

Sarah Otto
Nutritionist (Master of Human Nutrition)
Goodness Lover Co-Founder

Scientific Reference:
Davis, T.L. et al. “Modeling the microbial contribution to human energy balance using the Digestion, Absorption, and Microbial Metabolism (DAMM) model.” PLOS ONE, May 2026. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0347668

Could the foods teenagers eat and the drinks they choose offer clues to their mental health? Researchers followed thousands of Australian students over three years to investigate the connection.1

In a recent study published in the journal Child and Adolescent Mental Health, researchers investigated whether greater fruit and vegetable intake and lower sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption were linked to common mental disorder (CMD) risk among adolescents in Australia. While greater fruit intake was linked to lower risks of meeting screening thresholds for depression and anxiety, higher SSB intake was associated with greater risk, with a numerically stronger association for anxiety among males. Fruit intake had an inverse relationship with both outcomes, with depression risk 13% lower and anxiety risk 7% lower for each additional daily serving. Based on the findings, everyday dietary choices may be relevant to adolescent mental health and inform early prevention strategies.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20261019/Fruit-and-sugary-drinks-stood-out-in-a-three-year-study-of-teenage-mental-health.aspx

79% of Australians say they check whether their canned tuna is sustainable, but only 15% look for an independently verified label. We went through the tuna sold at Coles, Woolworths, ALDI and IGA right now: independent sustainability ratings, ingredient labels, a 2026 blind taste test, price per kilo and each brand’s track record. Here are the 12 tins to think twice about, the 4 that are actually worth your money, and the 5 label checks that stop you getting caught out again.

Labels and prices referenced are current at the time of recording (October 2026). Recipes, sourcing and prices change, so always check the tin in store. Nothing in this video suggests any product is unsafe to eat.

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