Author: Helke Ferrie

Be Good to Your Guts – How to Recover from Candida and Gut Dysbiosis

(Originally published in 2011; Updated in 2025) Introduction by Helke Ferrie Mainstream medical research has now proven that  the gut (intestinal tract) is key to the regulation of infection, proper immune and central nervous system functioning, and the health of the brain. So important has gut health become that the U.S. government initiated the Human […]

Get the Lead and Mercury Out: Detox Heavy Metals with Minerals and More

(Originally published in 2018; Updated in 2025) In the mid-1990s, I embarked upon a personal road to recovery after suffering from a near-fatal neurological disorder. My case of toxic overload was not especially unique. It had been caused by pesticide poisoning from 20 years of exposure to DDT in India, as well as mercury poisoning […]

Detoxing in a Toxic World – 11 Strategies for Raising Healthy Kids

Originally published in 2020; Updated in 2025 In the late 1990s, a scientist from the World Health Organization (WHO) presented a computer model at a conference in Toronto on infertility issues, showing that if the then-current pollution trends continued, the human race would go extinct in about 500 years (15 generations). In fact, the survival […]

The Magic of Vitamin C: How It Helps Heal Asthma, Cancer, Scurvy and more

(Article updated October 29, 2024) Vitamin C was first synthesized by Albert Sznet-Gyorgyi (1893-1986), for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1937. Later on, this vitamin was found to be a cure for scurvy, a disease that killed tens of thousands of British sailors during the 18th century. Found in fresh fruit and vegetables, […]

Help for Herpes: Top 4 Remedies to Clear Symptoms

In early 2014, a kid who was sitting in the row in front of me on an airplane coughed terribly for nine hours. About a week after this plane ride, I developed a viral pneumonia that lasted off and on through most of the summer and fall of 2014, and into the spring of 2015.  […]

Creating a Healthy Home: Reducing Dirty Electricity and EMF Radiation

“She’ll redecorate your home from the cellar to the dome and then go on to the enthralling fun of overhauling you!” (Henry Higgins in Lerner and Lowe’s “My Fair Lady”) The fears of Henry Higgins may now become reality for you, dear readers, whose lives and homes might be turned upside down by what I […]

Creating a Healthy Home: Extended Resource List

  PRODUCTS, SERVICES, RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN "CREATING A HEALTHY HOME": • A. Michrowski, The Planetary Association for Clean Energy: https://pacenetwork.org/ 613-236-6265. • To find a distributor of Graham-Stetzer filters in your area, visit: https://www.stetzerelectric.com/   (Comment: We placed Graham-Stetzer filters everywhere in our home. And our computers, printers, TV, etc., are also connected through such […]

ABCs of Animal Wellness – When Treating Cancer in Pets or People, the Same Rules Apply

Almost two decades ago, I embarked on a steep learning curve that led out of the morass of pharmaceutical propaganda into medicine that is curative, not just dedicated to lucrative symptom control, and truly scientific because it is verifiable. This journey began when, during my recovery from environmental illness induced by DDT and mercury dental […]

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Inside the World of Environmental Illness

(Correction: In the print version of this article published in Vitality's Winter 2021 issue, it was incorrectly stated that Covid vaccines contain heavy metals. However, this is not true. It is only the flu vaccine that contains aluminum and mercury.) What has happened in the area of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) over the past two […]

CPSO Still at Odds with Complementary and Alternative Medicine

In the previous issue of Vitality magazine, readers were informed that Ontario’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO) had responded to the overwhelming public objections to their new draft of the Complementary & Alternative Medicine Policy. Among the key issues that the public and the profession objected to was the requirement that all medical advice […]

The Link Between Obesity and the Microbiome - Causes and Cures

(Updated June 1st, 2021) In April of 2016, the Lancet published a long-awaited report on world obesity, which was based on 19.2 million people studied from 1975 to 2014. The exponential increase in obesity that they reported is alarming; the authors predict that by 2025, 18 percent of men and 21 per cent of women […]

Tracking the Real Progress in Medicine: A Snapshot of Advances in Healthcare

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 […]

How I Overcame Obesity — More than Once

Obesity boils down to toxicity. In fact, it's related to toxic overload with any one or all of the following: environmental pollution, pharmaceutical drugs, toxin-filled food. In addition, gut dysbiosis caused by nutrient-depleted processed foods loaded with toxic pesticides, toxic hormones, and antibiotics fed to food-producing animals plays a key role, as does over-stimulation of […]

The Microbiome and the New Medical Paradigm – How It Can Save Your Life

While concern rises about the spread of a new virus known as COVID-19, it’s good to remember that the past century has seen a massive decrease in infectious diseases globally. Thanks to improvements in personal cleanliness along with better sanitation through proper garbage and sewage management, health authorities have been able to prevent the spread […]

THE LOOMING THREAT OF 5G – and the Devastating Effects of Radiation

“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 […]

SUCCESS STORY: How I Recovered From the Devastating Effects of Lyme Disease

Shocking Links Between Dementia, Hypothyroidism, B12 Deficiency, and Lyme Disease Revealed Losing one’s mind is a horrible experience. The irony is that you need some of your mind still available to recognize that you are losing it, so you can stop the loss. This is my story of a sudden, unexpected descent into a black […]

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