By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World While multiple companies manufacture and market “new and improved” consumer goods that we use every day, such as soap, toothpaste...
Category - Dr. Joseph Mercola
Born and raised in the inner city of Chicago, IL, Dr. Joseph Mercola is an osteopathic physician trained in both traditional and natural medicine. Board-certified in family medicine, Dr. Mercola served as the chairman of the family medicine department at St. Alexius Medical Center for five years, and in 2012 was granted fellowship status by the American College of Nutrition (ACN). While in practice in the late 80s, Dr. Mercola realized the drugs he was prescribing to chronically ill patients were not working. By the early 90s, he began exploring the world of natural medicine, and in 1997 Dr. Mercola founded www.Mercola.com, which is now routinely among the top 10 health sites on the internet. His passion is to transform the traditional medical paradigm in the United States. You can follow Dr. Mercola online at Mercola.com and Facebook.com/doctor.health
Aerial Zika Spraying Enriches Chemical Companies While Endangering Public Health
September 30th, 2016 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World As you may recall, the Zika virus made big headlines back in January and February when the Brazilian government blamed Zika...
New Research Reveals Surprising Reasons Americans Waste So Much Food
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World Foodborne illness is a major problem in developed countries like the U.S., but one tactic many Americans rely on to prevent it is seriously misled...
The Biggest Cause of Anxiety and Depression is Traumatic Life Events
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World It’s estimated that 1 in 10 U.S. adults struggle with depression [1] and another 40 million have anxiety. It’s quite common, too...
A Comprehensive Guide to the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World What is the Emotional Freedom Technique? Although it is still often overlooked, emotional health is absolutely essential to your physical health...
Zika: Brazil Admits It’s Not the Virus
18th August 2016 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World Amidst growing fear-based propaganda warning of the threat of Zika virus comes a quiet admission from health officials in...
Modern Research Reveals Your Heart Does Have a Mind of Its Own
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World In the film “Of Hearts and Minds”, science documentary filmmaker David Malone explores the human heart, juxtaposing the modern...
The Price We Pay for Fighting Pests With Chemicals and Genetic Engineering
2nd August 2016 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World As noted in a recent article by The Atlantic,[1] history is rife with pest control experiments gone terribly wrong. Today the...
The Metabolic Model of Cancer: How Nutrition and Diet Influences Cancer
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World Is it possible that chromosomal damage is simply a marker for cancer and not the actual cause of the disease? Compelling evidence suggests this is...
SSRI Antidepressants Put Patients at Clear Risk of Suicide
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World It is now estimated that 1 in 8 Americans are on serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) antidepressants [1] and a shocking 1 in 4 among...
Setting the Record Straight on GMO Myths and Truths
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World Many of us are aware that genetically engineered (GE) foods and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are harmful to health and the...
CDC Executive Resigns After Being Caught Colluding With Coca-Cola to Salvage Soda Market
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest writer for Wake Up World I’ve often written about the collusion between industry and our regulatory agencies, and how industry-funded research tends to simply...