For the 35 percent of American adults who do daily battle with obesity, the main causes of their condition are all too familiar: an unhealthy diet, a sedentary lifestyle and perhaps some unlucky genes. In recent years, however, researchers have become increasingly convinced that important hidden players literally lurk in human bowels: billions on billions of gut microbes.

Throughout our evolutionary history, the microscopic denizens of our intestines have helped us break down tough plant fibers in exchange for the privilege of living in such a nutritious broth. Yet their roles appear to extend beyond digestion. New evidence indicates that gut bacteria alter the way we store fat, how we balance levels of glucose in the blood, and how we respond to hormones that make us feel hungry or full. The wrong mix of microbes, it seems, can help set the stage for obesity and diabetes from the moment of birth.

Following the recent water crisis in Flint, it's no wonder that the U.S. public has begun to question exactly how safe our drinking water actually is. What was once taken for granted — the idea of safe, pure, and drinkable water for everyone — is now in serious question.

In addition to the continuing problems with lead contamination, it has come to light in recent years that public water supplies are now contaminated with trace levels of pharmaceutical drugs, including oral contraceptives and mood stabilizers.

These drugs end up in our water somewhat inadvertently; however, there's one pharmaceutical that is intentionally added to our tap water: Fluoride.

Fluoride Is a Neurotoxic, Endocrine-Disrupting Drug

Calorie-controlled diets don't work.

Many of us may have suspected as much for years — but now there's compelling evidence in a new book by Professor Tim Spector, a leading genetics expert at King's College London.

What's more, he's offering a tantalising new theory about what really makes us fat — which could revolutionise our approach to weight loss.

As one of the scientists leading worldwide research into the trillions of bacteria living in our stomachs, Professor Spector believes they hold an amazing power over our health and moods — and that our modern diet may be having a negative effect on them.

His specialist area is twins. For more than two decades, he has been scientifically following 11,000 identical twins, examining information on their health, lifestyles and diet habits to discover the role of environmental and genetic factors in disease.

"The most basic of all human rights is the ability to have control over your own body and be able to exercise informed consent when making medical decisions that can harm you or your child." -Rob Schneider

The year was 2014 and California just passed Assembly Bill 2109 in the face of widespread opposition. The bill was designed to make it harder for parents to receive vaccine exemptions for their children. During this time, the slippery slope of forced vaccination in the state was just getting started. Few communities, parents or advocacy groups were fighting for health freedom.

Dr. William Thompson had just come forward admitting research fraud within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the film Vaxxed wouldn't be released for two more years. Meanwhile, politicians and medical trade groups — funded and directed by pharmaceutical company money — were racing behind the scenes to fulfill an agenda in the absence of widespread public push back. The pharmaceutically-funded mainstream media waited like guard dogs with hair triggers to assassinate the character of anyone in the public eye who had the courage to side with parental rights and common sense. Enter Rob Schneider.

Approximately 30 billion bottles of bottled water are sold worldwide each year. It ranks near the top of the list of the greatest marketing scams perpetrated on the public. How is it that people were duped into paying premium prices for something that flows abundantly from the earth or at least from municipal water supplies? Is bottled water any better than tap? Who benefits, who suffers and what are the environmental consequences of this strange love affair with bottled water?

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The neuroprotective effect of this common drug on Alzheimer's.

Compounds in marijuana could help to prevent Alzheimer's disease, new research finds.

The compounds, including tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), can promote the removal of a toxic protein related to Alzheimer's disease.

It could help to explain why exercise — which produces natural endocannabinoids — is also protective against Alzheimer's.

In 2014, at the age of 18 and a half, Zach was a first semester full-time college student and worked a laborious job roughly 30 hours a week. His life was on track, he was social, active and happy. Zach swam like a fish in the water with a body built for track who walked miles almost every day.

In early October that same year, Zach sustained an ankle injury which placed him out of work while he recovered. During this October 3^rd appointment for his ankle, he was talked into a flu vaccination. October 13^th, Zach returned for a follow up and was talked into accepting the Gardasil and meningococcal vaccines. It was shortly after this that the first phase of his health decline began.

Zach's muscles ached. He experienced intermittent joint pain, headaches, chronic fatigue, and a rash that lasted over 3 months, and just generally felt unwell as a whole. Being a mom and a teacher who frequently sees illness, I initially thought it was nothing more than him coming down with something viral, mixed in with possible exhaustion from work and school. But, he kept getting sicker. By mid-November, he was running a fever, coughing, congested, aching, hurting. By this point, it became clear something more was going on as this was not his norm. He rarely got sick and when he did, it was brief and minor. Something just wasn't right.

I took Zach back to the doctor and he was prescribed Zithromax due to what had now become a viral infection. He seemed to start getting better within a couple of days, but by the end of his course of antibiotics, his ears began to bother him, he was having hearing loss, and he was running another low grade fever. Not being a child with a history of ear infections, this was yet another indicator that something unusual was going on with him. We returned to the doctor and learned he had a double ear infection, so he was placed on a 10 day course of additional antibiotics. During this time, he was often too unwell to attend his classes or work his shifts. His first semester of college fell to the wayside.

Medical textbooks contain several vital pieces of misinformation
 about the essential element Iodine, which may have caused
 more human misery and death than both world wars combined. Dr. Guy Abraham

The present situation we find ourselves in demands that we quickly re-engineer not only mainstream allopathic medicine but all branches and alternatives. It has become increasingly clear that the majority of humans are suffering from chronic poisoning. Aware or not, we are exposed daily to radiation, fluorine, chlorine and bromine chemicals, that are found in many of our foods, soft drinks, toothpastes, pools, water, air and household chemicals. These chemicals and heavy metals accumulate in our body interfering with our neurological system, thyroid function, the endocrine glandular system, and also cause calcification of our pineal gland (aka third eye) lowering our IQ.

Vitamin D is a steroid hormone that influences virtually every cell in your body, which is why maintaining a healthy level is so important. Low vitamin D levels are widely known to harm your bones, leading them to become thin, brittle, soft or misshapen.

But vitamin D is equally important for your heart, brain, immune function and much more. For example, there's an important connection between insufficient vitamin D and insulin resistance and/or diabetes, both type 1¹and type 2.

Iodine is a fairly rare element in nature. While it's found in large quantities in the ocean and is present in soil, it's very low in many places around the world, including the soil in the United States. But iodine is essential to life, and is detected in every organ and tissue. It's crucial for brain development in children, plays a central role in healthy function of the thyroid gland, and facilitates an efficient metabolism.

Over the past 40 years in the developed world, iodine deficiency has increased more than fourfold, with nearly 74 percent of normal, "healthy" adults thought to no longer consume enough of this important element.

Why We Are Deficient In Iodine

1. Bromine, found in baked goods, plastics, soft drinks, medications, pesticides, and more, makes its way into our lives in one way or another every single day, but it displaces iodine.