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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
To prove that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria and not by stress, a researcher consumed an entire laboratory beaker full of bacterial culture. After this, he did indeed develop stomach ulcers, and won the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
Chronic marijuana use can damage the white blood cells and reduce the immune system's ability to respond to disease by as much as 40%. Without a strong immune system, the body is vulnerable to all kinds of degenerative and infectious diseases.