Don't trust your health to a blind internet search. Here's some helpful sources that are generally independent of industry biases. While Emma cannot verify every detail, they have been found to be reliably accurate on a consistent basis. It is always advised to research multiple sources and put the information within the context of your own experience and lifestyle.
The mission of Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is to work tirelessly to end the childhood health epidemics by working to expose causes, eliminate harmful exposures, hold those responsible accountable, seek justice for those injured, and establish safeguards to prevent future harm. As part of holding those responsible accountable, CHD initiates multiple legal initiatives in an effort to defend the health of our children and obtain justice for those already injured.
Whatever harms our children harms you too. CHD has the latest information in both print and via CHD.tv relying on the foremost experts from a variety of fields and disciplines.
GreenMedInfo is dedicated to providing evidence-based natural medical information. They provide physicians, healthcare practitioners, clinicians, researchers and consumers a resource to determine the therapeutic value of vitamins, minerals, herbs and foods. They believe that education equals empowerment and, that with education, people have the power to change their lives and lives of others.
It was started in 2008 by Sayer Ji to help consumers and healthcare professionals access evidence-based clinical data without the complexity of searching and navigating multiple health institutions.
A daily newsletter is available and it is also highly searchable by topic or keyword.
The Epoch Times is America’s fastest-growing independent news media. It was founded in 2000, with a mission to bring readers a truthful view of the world free from the influence of any government, corporation, or political party. It aims to distill a story down to the facts and get readers as close to the truth as possible.
It has a large health section known as Epoch Health with deep searchable content. It has a particular emphasis on natural health including Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and other alternatives to a conventional physician-led approach to personal health.
Various subscription models are available including online content only or receipt of a traditional newspaper to your house.
The Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) was founded in March 2020 by a group of highly published world-renowned physicians working to treat and prevent Covid-19. They have since expanded their work to include other infectious diseases such as flu and RSV.
They are dedicated to saving lives and improving health by advancing protocols based on the latest science, data and clinical observations, free of industry influence.
They have reached millions of people through their protocols, webinars, newsletters, social media, speaking engagements and media appearances. Their protocols are in use by healthcare providers around the world and have helped many thousands of people.
Dr Joseph Mercola has been providing trusted health information online for over 30 years. He is an osteopathic physician who, similar to MDs, finished four years of basic clinical training and is fully licensed to prescribe medication and perform surgery in all 50 US states.
Dr Mercola has written over 30 scientific studies and reports published in medical journals and publications. He is also a best-selling author, with a total of 15 books written so far.
The articles published on his site are always well referenced with links to scientific studies and other relevant material. There is a nominal fee to access his archive library which can be easily searched to find information on any health topic.
You can also sign up for a weekly newsletter.
The WAPF is a non-profit charity founded to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr Weston Price. His studies of traditional diets from around the world determined the optimum characteristics of nutrient-dense whole foods for human health.
Providing education, research and activism, it is a good source of information particularly about nutrition, animal foods, fermented foods, supplementation and broader health topics.
It particularly advocates for its 11 dietary principles for health that it calls its Wise Traditions diet. Details available include the scientific research to support each principle as well as resources, shopping guides, and recipes.
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. Just about any topic, author or journal can be searched with no prior training needed. A User Guide is available on the site.
The PubMed database contains more than 36 million citations and abstracts of biomedical research and literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher’s website.
Especially useful for looking up side effects and true efficacy of medications as well as non-pharmacological interventions for health conditions.
The Physicians Committee is changing the way doctors treat chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and cancer. By putting prevention over pills, doctors are empowering their patients to take control of their own health.
They also work to find alternatives to the use of animals in medical education and research as well as more effective scientific methods.
PCRM includes a staff of physicians, dieticians and scientists working with policy makers, industry, the medical community, media and the public.
PCRM is fully committed to a plant-based diet being optimal for everyone with many helpful resources to support you in this lifestyle. But even if 100% plant-based is not for you, the information on their site is compelling with specific health topics and scientific research referenced.
