Health-Essentials.info

How we began

The Health-Essentials.info website was launched in July of 2003 as a way to present important health information that you need, but that the FDA would rather you not have.  The restrictions imposed by the FDA's current interpretation of the Dietary Supplement and Education Act of 1994 means that, in order to present you with anything more that stale, generic descriptions of natural, health-promoting products, information that is actually usable must be separated from the products themselves.  Hence, this website.

Find out what the FDA doesn't want you to hear

While the content is somewhat meager at this point, in the months to come, it will fill up with information you can really use on the use of therapeutic-grade essential oils, nutritional supplements, health problems and other things in our world that have an important impact on your health.

The information is divided up into five main categories on:

• Scientific reports,
• Anecdotal reports (what could be considered case studies) and testimonials,
• Health alerts and Issues,
• Articles from published health-related newsletters, and a
• Members' area, where I include an archive of past newsletters and other information.

These categories are not strictly separated, so you will find scientific reports in the published sources section, and so on; and often, these different categories will be linked, providing you with a distinction between the science and the experiential, but making it easy to gain the benefits of both.

There is also a bulletin board, so you can share with others interested in natural healthcare and nutrition.

Scientific reports

There is a vast amount of information that can be included under the general heading of "Scientific reports".  Therefore, I've grouped the information here in the following categories:

• Essential oils, dealing with the properties and uses of essential oils,
• Aromatherapy, dealing with the applications and benefits of essential oils,
• Foods, where you can learn about the benefits or risks of specific foods, as well as the therapeutic uses of foods,
• Nutritional supplements, where I deal with different categories of supplements that might be helpful for you, sometimes making specific recommendations, and
• Health issues, a very broad category, which I've further broken down into Fundamentals for Healing and Recovery from Health Issues: The building blocks for restoring and maintaining optimal health, liver health, aging and longevity, wellness issues, general health topics and a section for newsletters from Dr Al Sears.

But, this section also includes Death by Medicine, Gary Null PhD, et al's 2003 report on how American medicine often does more harm than good, Law's 2002 report Risk relative to legal dietary supplements and a link to download by Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts' book, Ridiculous Dietary Allowance.

Come see what it's all about at Health-Essentials.info

Check out the Health-Essentials.info website.  I'm sure you'll find something to challenge and enlighten you.

Your comments and questions are always welcome.