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Understanding CDK4/6 Inhibitors in Breast Cancer: Biomarkers, Resistance, and the Emerging Role of Natural Compounds
By Donnie Yance – Herbs and phytochemicals can alter drug metabolism, affect blood counts, liver function, coagulation, blood pressure, glucose control, and immune activity. Some may increase the risk of side effects; others may reduce drug levels and efficacy.
Be Your Own Health Detective: Uncover and Reduce the Hidden Toxins in Your Daily Life
By Erik Peper – Individual choices matter, but they are not enough by themselves. Our health depends as much on government policy as on personal willpower. Government regulations set safety standards for the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink.
The GMO-to-Cancer Pathway
By Michelle Perro, MD – Early-onset colorectal cancer, generally defined as colorectal cancer diagnosed before age 50, has been rising for decades. The phenomenon is particularly disturbing because many cases occur in people without an obvious hereditary cancer syndrome.
How To Take Back Control of Your Life
By Gary Null, PhD – The average American now spends most of the day’s free hours on a screen, and the newest ritual has a name the dictionaries have already accepted: doomscrolling —
Teaching the Immune System When Not to Attack
By Ben Moss – Researchers are learning to selectively manipulate the levers of the immune system. A small study using a monoclonal antibody to prevent rejection of transplanted pancreatic islet cells shows incredible promise for people with Type 1 diabetes.
What Dietary Fat Tells Us About Survival After Prostate Cancer
By Geo Espinosa, ND – Mortality has several doors: prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, other cancers, and other causes. When the investigators tracked which door men went through, the excess deaths tied to saturated fat went mostly through the cardiovascular door.
Artemisinins: A Comprehensive Approach to Cancer Treatment Through Multiple Mechanisms
By Donnie Yance – Artemisia annua has a rich medicinal heritage spanning over 1,600 years, with documented use in China since AD 341 for treating febrile illnesses. For centuries, Chinese communities have consumed Artemisia annua leaves and incorporated them into Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practices to promote general health.
When Screens Replace Connection: Impact on Children’s Brains
By Erik Peper, PhD, BCB, Stoyan Vezenkov, PhD, Violeta Manolovab, Lauren Mason, PhD and Richard Harvey, PhD – The empirical record on educational technology in early and primary education has not delivered on its promises—math and reading scores have declined while screen use in classrooms has risen, as the US NAEP data and Sweden’s recent reversal of its “digital-first” education policy make plain.
Continuous Ketone & Glucose Monitoring Has Arrived: A Milestone for Metabolic Health
By Ben Moss – The FDA has authorized the first wearable device to continuously monitor both glucose and ketones through a single sensor. Developed for diabetes, Abbott’s Libre Duo could have implications extending far beyond it, including nutritional ketosis, metabolic health and metabolic cancer research.
What About Mushrooms for Prostate?
By Geo Espinosa – For prevention-oriented men, the defensible recommendation is dietary: three or more mushroom meals per week across varied species. Shiitake, oyster, maitake, and king oyster are the antioxidant-dense choices. The nutritional upside is real — high fiber, low glycemic index, very low fat, protein content in some species rivaling animal sources.
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Where are your Clinical Trials?
It has proven to be difficult, if not impossible, to proceed to full-scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for most of the natural methods that cannot be patented or otherwise monopolized.
Uncovering Hidden Health Issues: The Role of Food Sensitivities in Chronic Inflammation and Gut Health
By addressing food sensitivities through targeted testing and personalized dietary interventions, individuals can take a significant step toward reducing inflammation, improving gut health, and enhancing overall well-being.
A Renewed Focus on Self-Help for Healing
As the producer of The Moss Report, the year leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic was filled with anticipation and excitement. We had invested years of hard work and significant resources into two major projects: our feature film, Immunotherapy: The Battle Within, and...
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The Pharmacy of the Sacred Forest: Medicinal Plants and Ancestral Wisdom of the Jola Healers (Gambia)
By Dr. Josep Lluís Berdonces – “Out of sight, out of mind,” goes a traditional proverb that Malang often repeats. The destruction of sacred forests, the loss of local languages, the disappearance of wise elders without passing on their knowledge: all of this represents a cultural and therapeutic catastrophe of incalculable dimensions.
Chew on This: Teeth Are NOT Optional
By Joy Reuther-Costa – When people lose teeth, the consequences extend far beyond appearance. The ability to chew food properly affects digestion, nutrition, systemic health, mental health, and quality of life. Treating dental care as optional medicine ignores the fundamental role that teeth play in human health.
Slow Food: The Revolution America Needs
By Ben Moss – If you haven’t heard of the Slow Food movement, it is time to get up to speed with what should be the most important revolution the USA has ever known. Fair warning, if you read this article all the way through, you will be hungry by the end.
Dandelion Root Extract and Its Therapeutic Potential: From Cancer Biology to Metabolic Health
By Donnie Yance – The body of preclinical research on dandelion root extract reveals intriguing therapeutic potential across oncology, neurology, endocrinology, and general wellness.
What Is Holistic and Integrative Urology? A Short History of How We Got Here
By Geo Espinosa – Evidence first. Context always. Natural and lifestyle first when possible. The label on a therapy matters far less than its fit, its safety, and its proof. We don’t choose between modern and integrative medicine.
Literature Review and Commentary
By Alan R. Gaby, MD – From eggs and Alzheimer’s risk to iodine during pregnancy, bromelain after dental surgery, and tomatoes for fatty liver, this collection explores intriguing connections between nutrition and health. We also examine questions surrounding CoQ10 for depression, sex-specific responses to iron therapy, goat milk formula and eczema, and celiac disease in unexplained cirrhosis.
You Deserve a Beautiful Life
by Gary Null, PhD – How many times have we gone against the current of our own being? You know you should do A, but you are conditioned to do B.
You are fighting it because the conditioned self is conditioned from a place of fear. And fear will always win if we give in to it.
Beyond Symptom Control: The Logic of Individualized Homeopathic Care
By Peter W. Gold, Ronald Whitmont, MD, Lisa Samet, ND – By addressing the person as a whole and working with the body’s innate capacity to reorganize and restore equilibrium (to heal), homeopathic treatment seeks resolution rather than management, resilience rather than dependence.
Beyond the Tumor: Terrain, Adaptive Capacity, and Treatment Response in Integrative Oncology
By Rob Lamberton, BSc, FNTP, FDN-P © – The tumor microenvironment — the immediate milieu of stromal cells, vasculature, immune infiltrate, and signaling molecules surrounding a tumor — is well established as a determinant of tumor behavior and treatment response. It is, in effect, a local terrain.
Understanding How Herbal Medicine Really Works: Network Pharmacology Explained
By Donnie Yance – For diseases like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease—diseases that have resisted single-drug approaches—network pharmacology offers genuine hope. By treating disease as the network problem it truly is, we’re developing treatments that work with biological complexity rather than against it.
Beyond the Plastic: Test, Mitigate, Restore, Measure
By Chris D. Meletis, ND – Recent investigations have identified microplastic particles in human blood, placental tissue, lung tissue, brain, liver, kidney, breast milk, and atherosclerotic plaque. While these findings confirm that human exposure occurs and that at least some particles can enter biological systems, the clinical implications remain an active area of investigation.
Healing Hands and Multivitamins
By Ben Moss – A small change in the cuticles around my fingernails has become a surprisingly reliable reminder to take my vitamins. What fascinates me most is not the symptom itself, but how quickly the body can respond when it has the resources it needs to heal.
How to Embrace Your Passion – Trusting Your Cellular Wisdom
by Gary Null, PhD – Embrace your passion. Not the curated, hashtagged, algorithmically optimized version, but the real thing. The messy, inconvenient, time-consuming, occasionally embarrassing, deeply human thing that makes you forget to check your phone, and makes three hours feel like 20 minutes.
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Integrative Cancer Symposium 2026 – Believe BIG
Sheraton, Towson MD Towson, MD, United StatesOptimize Your Health. Transform Your Future. Join us for this dynamic one-day experience designed for anyone seeking to take a proactive, whole-body approach to health. Integrative oncology is a dynamic and rapidly evolving field, unveiling groundbreaking discoveries and new possibilities every day. This year’s one-day conference will take place at the Sheraton in Towson, Maryland from 9am – 5pm and offers both in-person and virtual attendance options. This event brings together leading experts in integrative oncology, functional medicine, and wellness. Discover cutting-edge approaches to prevention, treatment, recovery, and whole-person wellness at the Integrative Cancer Symposium Believe Big 2026. Learn from leading clinicians, researchers, and innovators in integrative oncology as they explore emerging therapies, metabolic and lifestyle approaches, mistletoe therapy, nutrition, environmental health, mindset, and more. Whether you are navigating cancer personally, supporting a loved one, or simply looking to optimize your health and reduce future risk, this powerful one-day experience offers practical tools, fresh insights, and meaningful connection.
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PLMI 14th Annual Thought Leaders Consortium
Loews Coronado Bay Resort 4000 Coronado Bay Rd, Coronado, CA, United StatesThe 14th Annual Thought Leaders Consortium marks the culminating chapter of PLMI’s three-year exploration into the biology of immuno-metabolism, epigenetic regulation, and human longevity. Building on the 2024 and 2025 Consortia—which reframed chronic disease through immune-metabolic dysfunction and diet- and environment-driven epigenetic remodeling—this year’s gathering places mitochondria at the center of health, disease, and aging. Once viewed simply as the cell’s energy producers, mitochondria are now recognized as dynamic, epigenetically responsive organelles that integrate nutrition, environmental exposures, immune activation, stress signaling, physical activity, and circadian inputs into a unified metabolic-immune system. Disruption of mitochondrial function is increasingly implicated in fatigue syndromes, chronic pain, immune dysregulation, neurodegeneration, infertility, metabolic disease, accelerated aging, and diminished stress resilience. This advanced, science-driven Consortium convenes world-leading experts to explore mitochondrial biology as the cornerstone of immuno-metabolic resilience. Attendees will gain cutting-edge insights into mitochondrial signaling, mito-nuclear communication, and metabolic flexibility—alongside clinically actionable frameworks for restoring cellular vitality, reversing biological aging trajectories, and extending healthspan. Through deep scientific exploration and translational clinical strategy, the 2026 Thought Leaders Consortium will equip practitioners and researchers with the knowledge needed to redefine assessment, intervention, and long-term outcomes in personalized and lifestyle medicine.
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Practical Clinical Skills in Neurotransmitter Optimization: Clinical Herbalism for Mood, Cognition & Aging
Virtual EventJoin us for the second part of this two-part virtual symposium! Mental health and neurocognitive disorders remain among the most prevalent and inadequately addressed challenges in modern clinical practice. This intensive, expert-led symposium provides a comprehensive, clinically grounded framework for integrating herbal and nutraceutical strategies into mental health care. Attendees gain a working understanding of how targeted herbal interventions modulate key neurotransmitter systems, including serotonin, dopamine, GABA, and cortisol, and how to apply these therapies strategically, whether as adjuncts to pharmaceuticals or as standalone options. Clinical applications span a wide spectrum, from anxiety and depression to Parkinson’s-related motor symptoms and age-associated cognitive decline, with a strong emphasis on practical implementation and patient-specific protocol design.
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