Posts From Helke Ferrie
Helke Ferrie
Helke Ferrie is a medical science writer with a master's degree in physical anthropology. Her specialty lies in investigative research into ethical issues in medicine and the politics of health. She started her investigative journalism career in the mid-1990s, looking at issues of medicine and environment. She has been a regular contributor to Vitality Magazine ever since. Helke has also authored books on various subjects including: "Ending Denial: The Lyme Disease Epidemic", "What Part of No! Don't They Understand: Rescuing Food and Medicine from Government Abuse", and "The Earth's Gift to Medicine".
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
Get the Lead and Mercury Out: Detox Heavy Metals with Minerals and More
Sauna therapy helps the body to eliminate heavy metals through the skin; it should be accompanied by supplementation of vitamins and minerals to offset those...
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...
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...
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...
Growing Up Healthy in a Toxic World – Detoxing for Optimal Wellness
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...
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...
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...
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...
TRIBUTE TO DR. IRVINE KORMAN (1929 – 2018)
The first time I met Dr. Irvine Korman in 1990, he remarked: “The best thing that ever happened to me was that the College of...