A quick blood test will verify that 98% of you are carrying an inactive form of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), one of several herpesviruses (human herpesvirus 4, to be exact) that can rest quietly in your body. You hope. That high percentage is confirmed by testing large populations for the presence of EBV antibodies, produced by the immune system in response to the presence of a Read More

This is all about Bartonellosis, an illness you may never have heard of even as doctors are thinking it’s more widespread than anyone thought. Here’s why: –30% of US households have one or more cat. –The estimated US household cat population is 86 million. —Feral (outside, not domestic) cats add another 50 million. 136 million cats is a lot of felines. The Centers for Disease Read More

I’ll spare you a migraine. Don’t google “ozone therapy” as you’ll get 2.1 million results in 0.35 seconds. And while this is a mere fraction of what happens when you search for “migraine” (80 million in 1.19 seconds), just reading about the controversy over ozone therapy in first 20 entries might be enough to give you a throbbing pain behind your eye. Although there are Read More