Q: I am a subscriber to your news-letter, but don’t recall reading your opinion on HGH shots. Now there’s talk of supposed high releasers, which claim to release your own growth hormones, which would be even better in my opinion.

I rarely write about “amazing results,” since I’ve seen all too many patients be disappointed by such sensational claims made by various companies. But in Cecelia’s case, the results really were amazing.

With “friends” like Iowa senator Tom Harkin, natural health care doesn’t need enemies (though we’ve certainly got enough of those to deal with too). For years, Harkin has claimed to be fighting for medical privacy, patients’ rights, and complementary and alternative medicine. Sound too good to be true? It is. His latest move shows whose interests he’s really looking after.

The headlines above might remind you of newspapers you’ve seen from World War II, headlines that brought our parents and grandparents “up-to-the-minute” every day in that life and death struggle. So am I overdoing it? I’ll admit that it does sound a little extreme. You’re probably thinking “Sure, there’s a War on Terror, but an actual, serious War on Vitamins, complete with a European battlefront? Why haven’t I heard or read about it? Where’s ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, and the New York Times? One of them would have told me if there was War on Vitamins going on, wouldn’t they?”

One day in July, the phones at Tahoma Clinic suddenly started ringing off the hook. The callers were almost all women wanting answers about the risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). At first, I wasn’t sure where all the concern was coming from, since I usually don’t get that many calls on the same topic in a whole month, let alone in one afternoon. But then I saw the front page of the newspaper: HRT had made national headlines. Directors of a national study known as the Women’s Health Initiative abruptly stopped their research and instructed the women to discontinue taking HRT, because it increases the risks of breast cancer, blood clots, stroke, and heart attack.

IN THIS ISSUE: Hormone replacement therapy can be safe-when you put back the missing ingredient: Nature; Major losses on the European battlefront! Unless Americans fight back, the war on vitamins, minerals, and herbs will invade U.S. borders too; If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is: What the government doesn’t want you to know about irradiated food; More news on a truly amazing treatment: A natural clot-buster safely relieves pain and may be the answer to other frustrating–even debilitating–conditions; Making an informed decision on HGH