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...
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
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...
How the War on Drugs Has Caused More Harm Than Good
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest Writer for Wake Up World Prescriptions for opioids have risen by 300 percent over the past 10 years — a trend that has fueled, if not created a whole new heroin...
Mumps is Being Spread By and Among Vaccinated People
9th June 2016 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest Writer for Wake Up World Vaccines are a very lucrative business. Pfizer’s vaccine Prevnar, which targets 13 strains of pneumococcus bacteria, generated...
Medical Errors: STILL the Third Leading Cause of Death
2nd June 2016 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest Writer for Wake Up World History tells us it can take decades before a medical truth becomes accepted as fact, and recent headlines are a perfect...
7 Domestic Factors That Can Make or Break Your Health
26th May 2016 By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest Writer for Wake Up World More than 80,000 man-made chemicals are put into American household products, food, and food packaging each year, a majority of...
Plants Are Smarter Than You Think
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World Plants are not simple bystanders in the environment, soaking up sun and otherwise engaging in a passive existence. They’re actually...