On January 19, 2022, Nicholas Ashfield passed away after a short illness surrounded by family and friends. The infamous founder of the Toronto Healing Arts Centre left this world as he would have wished, listening to a guided meditation and being held close by those he loved. The son of Cliff and Lyn Ashfield, Nick […]

Question for Dr. Rona: If a man in his early to mid 60's takes a testosterone shot once a month, is it dangerous to take the Covid shot and booster shots as well?  I have tried to find out but get conflicting answers from different sources. Thank you so much, Louise D. Dear Louise: The […]

Green Tea Helps Lower Cholesterol Researchers have completed a comprehensive meta-analysis, or review of previously done studies, and have found that drinking green tea or taking green tea extract lowered blood levels of total cholesterol, reducing levels of low-density-lipo-protein (LDL or bad) cholesterol, but with no effect on levels of high-density-lipoprotein (HDL or good) cholesterol. […]

Updated August 16, 2021 Curcumin May Combat Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis A 2016 study found that curcumin, a substance in turmeric that is best known as one of the main components of curry powder, may help fight drug-resistant tuberculosis. (In Asia, turmeric is used to treat many health conditions; it has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and perhaps even anti-cancer […]

(Commentary) Although the mainstream media outlets might have you believe otherwise, the vaccines that continue to be administered for the COVID pandemic are emerging as substantial sources of morbidity and mortality themselves. While the degree to which these negative outcomes of the COVID vaccines can be debated, there is no question that enough disease and […]

Progress tends to be mostly in the slow lane. Nonetheless, it progresses. Vitamin C is now being used intravenously in clinical trials to treat pancreatic cancer. Most interesting of all, the mechanism by which vitamin C “stops cancer” has been discovered by Johns Hopkins Medical School oncologists “nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling […]

SELENIUM SUPPLEMENTS REDUCE BLADDER CANCER RISK  A study has found that, depending on a person’s individual characteristics, increasing his/her selenium intake can lower the risk of bladder cancer by as much as 39 percent. (Selenium is an essential micronutrient that is incorporated into about 25 proteins, called selenoproteins, most of which are enzymes with antioxidant […]

"Sufficient doses of vitamin C and other nutrients such as vitamin D3, zinc, magnesium, and selenium lower the risk of developing viral infections, and can protect patients in the initial stages of infection from progressing to more serious disease." – Dr. Richard Cheng, MD, PhD Due to their lengthy development of at least 2 years, […]

"In the torrent of information about COVID, one aspect of the crisis is conspicuously missing – the manner in which the medication burden people are already under may compromise their response to the infection.  RxISK has published the only paper dealing with this, in downloadable English and Spanish PDFs: https://rxisk.org/medications-compromising-covid-infections/" – Dr. David Healy, MD […]

Vitality magazine staff were saddened to learn recently that Tamara Penn, a long-time member of our health community, had passed away on January 23rd after an extended illness. She was a vivacious and spunky woman, an expert health practitioner, always full of laughter and good cheer. She will be missed by many friends, patients, and […]

“Never in human history has there been such a practice as we now encounter with the marketing and distributing of products hostile to the human biological system.” – Robert C. Kane, Motorola cell phone engineer, died in 2002 from radiation-caused glioma, author of Cell Phone Russian Roulette “If you are not currently working on stopping […]

Curcumin Enhances Memory and Mood in Older Adults New research indicates that daily consumption of curcumin, a substance found in turmeric, improves memory and mood in people with mild, age-related memory loss. The curcumin used in this experiment was a form that is easily absorbed.  Curcumin is the compound that gives Indian curry its bright colour. […]

Shiv Chopra was born in India. He was 13 years old when independence from Britain was achieved amidst the blood bath of ‘Partition’ and Gandhi’s assassination. After obtaining his degree in veterinary medicine in India, he also received a PhD in microbiology from McGill University in the 60s and became a drug and vaccine evaluator […]

ALMONDS REDUCE BAD CHOLESTEROL LEVELS Researchers have found that eating nearly one-third of a cup of almonds a day, either alone or combined with almost one-quarter cup of dark chocolate and two-and-a-third tablespoons of cocoa a day, may reduce LDL cholesterol levels in the blood of overweight and obese people. They stressed that how much […]

The world of essential oils is a big and popular one, having grown in leaps and bounds as people around the world source out natural ways to heal the body, mind, and spirit. For over 5,000 years, different cultures have used healing plant oils for a variety of health conditions. Today, essential oils are often used […]

Cipro, Levaquin, Floxin, and more – Side Effects Worse Than the Condition They’re Prescribed For “There is plenty of evidence that fluoroquinolones damage mitochondria, increase ROS (reactive oxygen species), deplete antioxidants, deplete iron, deplete magnesium, damage the microbiome, downgrade GABA, are endocrine disrupters, cause lysosomal disorders, form poisonous metabolites in the liver, activate mast cells, release histamine, […]