With cold, flu, and pneumonia season in full swing, it’s especially important to protect yourself — and your lungs — as much as you can.

Q: I’ve come down with my fourth cold sore since November. I’ve heard applying zinc to it will get rid of it. Help.

And then there’s the other drawback that always crops up when you talk about organic food: price.

Although I have not found it effective in raising serum cholesterol to the normal range in every patient who tries it, in my experience, manganese is at least partially effective in more than 50 percent of cases.

One thing to keep in mind, though, is that walnuts work best against saturated fat when you eat them raw, right out of the shell.

Q: I’m a new subscriber to Nutrition & Healing and see that many of your recommended protocols start with being tested for allergies. But I’m deathly afraid of needles. Is there any other way to test for allergies?

Basically, this discovery is a grocery shopper’s dream-come-true, saving our time, money, and health.

Q: I have read on the Internet that tea has a lot of fluoride in it these days. Is this true and if so, is there a near fluoride-free source?

Natural medicine is all about choice. And when someone or something comes along and threatens that choice, even the most mild-mannered natural-medicine proponent gets mad.

These are very safe vitamins, so take the higher quantities if you’re past 65 and/or if you know you have digestive/absorptive difficulties

But despite this dramatic and unsettling finding, the lead researcher of the study “warned that her research not be license for men to go dashing for the testosterone.”

Even though shutting off stomach acid production helps control symptoms, it should be the last option, as it also can lead to many other illnesses.

In fact, in the vast majority of cases, the condition can be completely eliminated just by making some changes to what they’re eating.

Q: Do you have any information on alternative treatments for Parkinson’s disease?

A study out of the University of Leicester in England also shows that cabbage and Brussels sprouts can help kill cancer cells

Even if the infection from the herpes virus that causes shingles has subsided, taking general “infection-prevention” steps would still be a good way to support your wife’s system overall.

This probably doesn’t seem like it would be worthy of such a grand-scale study, since the general cancer-fighting properties of broccoli are pretty well known.

It’s been so successful in treating “dry” cases of macular degeneration over the past two decades that, since 2001 we’ve actually offered a money-back guarantee to people who undergo it

Sucralose has found its way into some rather unexpected places these days — ones that even the most alternative-minded of us have likely considered healthy.

But I know more than a few people who gave up using this artificial sweetener because of safety concerns only to switch to sucralose.

Q: I've suffered from constipation most of my adult life. I eat plenty of fiber and drink lots of water, so my doctor has just told me not to worry about it.

In last Wednesday's e-tip, I told you that the sleep hormone, melatonin, can actually slow the growth of breast cancer by as much as 70 percent.

Excess earwax is not in itself a disease. But it's a nuisance that signals a much more important problem, one that if left untreated could cause disease

IN THIS ISSUE: Sleep your way to cancer prevention; Testosterone: the key to living a longer, healthier life; The bitter truth behind a sweet deception; 6 ways to treat ADHD without dangerous drugs; Improve brain function in children with Down syndrome; Secrets behind magnetic therapy; Treatment for injury-related back and joint pain; A simple way to improve digestion;

Q: I can’t thank you enough for writing the book on hydrochloric acid. I also just read another book on blood types that said that people who have type A blood are often short on stomach acid. When you combine the information from both books, you have a recipe for greatly improved digestion and well-being. I talk to many people who are looking to improve their health, and I emphasize simplicity. Supplementing with hydrochloric acid leads the way very many times.