At Gaia Health, we see health and the world a little differently. They are intertwined, one with the other. We cannot be healthy if the world isn't, and with so many of us in existence, the world cannot be healthy if we aren't. Thus, our name is taken from the image of the earth as a living organism: Gaia.
Here is where you'll find true and honest information about health. At all times, we strive to do honor to Gaia and our place with her. Articles about health have a focus on achieving and maintaining it, rather than on extreme measures that work discordantly with the earth—or don't work at all. To that end, coverage includes issues of the environment and climate change, and as they're relevant, the associated politics.
Poland Rejects H1N1 Vaccine—One country isn't taking the koolaid. In a surprising announcement, Poland says it will not buy H1N1, swine flu, vaccine. This video of the Polish Health Minister is her impassioned explanation of why. |
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Surgeons Mutilate Women's Genitals, Say It's for Beauty (Part 1)—Concerns about genital mutilation generally focus on cultures "over there", not here at home. But make no mistake, female genital mutilation is alive and well...and the practice is both increasing and highly profitable. Surgical clinics have sprung up all over offering female genital mutilation—more often termed labiaplasty. |
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Surgeons Mutilate Women's Genitals, In Spite of the Risks (Part 2)—Genital mutilation in women is commonly performed and hyped by medical terrorists—a more appropriate term than medical doctors—every day. It's being done recklessly, with claims of safety, improved sexual satisfaction, and better mental health. These claims are made without any credible evidence. |
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The Truth About the Mumps Outbreaks, Not the Hype (Part 1)—Reports of mumps outbreaks are breaking out all over, along with fear mongering and pushes to get vaccinated...reports are rife with flaws. Unvaccinated are blamed for outbreaks. Severity is grossly distorted. Nothing is as it seems, if you take your guidance from news media. |
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The Truth About the Mumps Outbreaks, Not the Hype (Part 2)—The real risks are associated with having mumps vaccinations. If the vaccine actually is preventive, the disease it's preventing is clearly not often serious. Yet, in exchange for this highly questionable protection, the risks from the vaccination are significant. |
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How to Safely Take Vitamin B3 (Niacin) for Heart Health—Vitamin B3 is a safe supplement that can do wonders for heart health. Although it's often deemed unsafe, it's actually a necessary nutrient. Gross deficiency results in pellagra, a disease that leads to dementia and death. Amounts of B3 that can prevent pellagra are inadequate to protect the heart. This is a guide to supplementing B3. |
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Vitamin B3, Niacin, Can Help Prevent Heart Disease—Vitamin B3, once well-known to medicine as a superb treatment for heart disease, fell out of favor when pharmaceutical drugs, especially statins, were introduced. The results have been dismal...demonized as dangerous...researchers tried to turn it into a drug...doctors usually tell people to stay away from it. |
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![]() EPA's Warning to Children About Mercury Dangers—This brief video was produced by the EPA to warn children not to play with mercury. And somehow, we're supposed to accept that mercury injected in vaccinations is safe? |
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Chelation Cured Desiree Jennings' Mercury Poisoning—Chelation has cured Desiree Jennings of the dystonia caused by a flu vaccination. As ever, the medical world denies both that she was injured by the vaccine and that she was cured. They use their usual canard: claiming that her illness was psychogenic, that is, they're saying it was all in her head. |
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Here's What the "Harmless" Flu Vaccination Can Do—The odds are this won't happen to you--but once you've seen what can, you'll think twice before considering having a flu vaccination. Warning: This video is shocking. |
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Physician's Group Allies Itself With Coca-Cola—The outrages of our corporate controlled medical system just keep coming. Now it's an alliance between the AAFP and Coke. AAFP has proudly announced that this first in its Consumer Alliance program will 'educate consumers about the role their products can play in a healthy, active lifestyle.' |
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Insel, NIMH Director, Shows Disdain for Austistic Boy—The mistreatment of a woman and her autistic son by the director of the NIMH, the person in charge of determining treatment for autism...how those trying to stop the autism epidemic are routinely treated by public servants in authority: stonewalled, with condescension, and outright lied to. |
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Daily Aspirin Doesn't Prevent Heart Attacks and Does More Harm Than Good—Eventually, Big Med figures out the obvious. A case in point is a recent study in the Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) documenting that taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks does more harm than good. Aspirin is a drug. Drugs aren't preventive medicine. Ergo, aspirin is not a preventive medicine. |
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Irresponsible Claim That Flu Vaccines Increase Birth Weight—They never quit with phony studies, especially when it comes to swine flu! The latest hype claimins studies show that babies born to women who've had flu vaccinations are bigger and healthier. Close inspection, though, shows the claim is based on junk science bought and paid for by Big Pharma. |
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Premature Baby Birthrate Goes Up, But Research Focuses on Drugs—Terrible things have been happening to the public's health in the last 20-30 years. Chronic disease rates have been rising dramatically, along with the rate of premature births. All have one thing in common. Our medical system has focused on treating the symptoms, not on finding the causes. |
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