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Chemical Research in Toxicology, 2021, 34(11), 2319-2330. QUOTE: “There is growing evidence from human and animal studies indicating an association between exposure to synthetic food dyes and adverse neurobehavioral outcomes in children.” The authors developed a way to evaluate the … Continue reading
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BioMed Research International, vol. 2022 (6829409). This is a review of some of the chemicals added to foods to improve shelf-life, color or taste, from the point of view of safety of the newborn. The authors point out that … Continue reading
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Minerva Pediatrics, 2022. July 13 DOI: 10.23736/S2724-52765.22.06932-4 Use of Tylenol (paracetamol or acetaminophen) during pregnancy and early childhood has been considered safe since the 1970s. Parents are urged to use it routinely after vaccination to prevent or control fever. It … Continue reading
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Environmental Health, 2022 Apr 29;21(1):45. Concern that synthetic food dyes may impact behavior in children prompted the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to review the research on both children and animals. 64% of the 25 challenge studies … Continue reading
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Cureus, 2022 Jan 15;14(1):e21272. Kerr, Cadegiani, Baldi, Lobo, … Chamie-Quintero. The discussion of this paper begins at about Minute 8 in the video below. The entire population of a city in Brazil was invited to take Ivermectin at a dose … Continue reading
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Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 29 (2022) 100894. Hasan, Khan, Chowdhury, Khan, Moni, & Rahman This study, done in Bangladesh and Australia, compared something called “docking” ability of Quercetin with that of the usual drugs for several diseases, and found that … Continue reading
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EBioMedicine, 17 (2017), 192-198 (Authors: Mogensen, Andersen, Rodrigues, Benn, Aaby) The authors examined the outcome of the introduction of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) in an urban community in Guinea-Bissau in the early 1980s. They followed the children … Continue reading
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PLoS ONE, 10(4): e0126314. Food allergies in children have been increasing in recent decades, so there is a need to create an allergic animal model in order to study this problem. This is normally accomplished by giving the rats a … Continue reading
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MedRxiv, October 8, 2021. DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139 The authors analyzed 1,373 persons with Covid-19 in the San Francisco Bay Area from February 1 to June 30, 2021. 125 of them had vaccine breakthrough infections. They found that symptomatic breakthrough infections had … Continue reading
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Immunobiology, 221 (2016), 512-515. Subclinical Bordetello pertussis colonizes the nasopharynx (nose) in vaccinated people, but has long been thought to be harmless. The authors show that on the contrary, this is an important cause of multiple sclerosis. Interestingly, the Bordatello … Continue reading
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European Journal of Pharmacology, Jan 15;891:173694 The authors recommend that instead of using Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) together with the macrolide antibiotic Azithromycin, doctors should first use HCQ and follow this with the addition of Azithromycin. The picture at right describes the … Continue reading
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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2021 Aug 12;76(9):2415-2418 Several drug treatment trials were reviewed in this paper, including the use of Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin, Hydroxychloroquine alone, IL-6 Inhibitors, Corticosteroids, Convalescent Plasma, Remdesivir, and “others” including five antiretroviral drugs and two anti-influenza … Continue reading
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Journal of Controlled Release, 329 (2021), 758-761. Ivermectin is an FDA-approved broad-spectrum antiparasitic agent with demonstrated antiviral activity against a number of DNA and RNA viruses, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In this paper, the authors discuss … Continue reading
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The Journal of Antibiotics, 73: 593-602. This is a comprehensive systematic review, summarizing the antiviral effects of ivermectin over the past 50 years. Ivermectin plays a role in several biological mechanisms; therefore it could serve as a potential candidate in … Continue reading
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Journal of Medical Virology, Oct;93(10):5833-5838 In an effort to see if Ivermectin would be effective in patients hospitalized with Covid-19, the authors gave half of them 12 mg of the drug for 3 (three) days. There were 82 patients in … Continue reading
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Frontiers in Public Health, Mar 19;6:79 Dr. Aaby was involved in the original introduction of the DPT vaccine to children in this African country in 1981. Even now, it is the most commonly used vaccine in low-income countries with poor … Continue reading
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(22):8803. This is a complex study of Remdesivir’s activity against the cytokine storm sometimes seen in cases of Covid-19. MP1032 (Remdesivir) is a reactive-oxygen scavenger (ROS) and was originally being developed to treat psoriasis, rheumatoid … Continue reading
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American Journal of Therapeutics 28, e2999-e318 This is a meta-analysis of 18 randomized controlled treatment trials of ivermectin for COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: The meta-analysis found large, statistically significant reductions in mortality, time to clinical recovery, and time to viral clearance. Furthermore, … Continue reading
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Lately, I have been asked to “prove” that the VAERS system for tracking vaccine injuries reports only a small percentage (less than 1%) of those injuries. I have also been asked to discuss whether such injuries are verified, and how. … Continue reading
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Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law, Volume 2: 4-22. July 2020 Of 107 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were given individualized treatments of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Iodine, Nebulized and/or IV Hydrogen Peroxide, intramuscular therapies, IV Vitamin C, … Continue reading
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In 2017, California began to review the science on food dyes and behavior. The CSPI requested me to send a collection of studies to them, which you can see here. Today they released their Final Report. The Report concludes that: … Continue reading
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Heliyon 7 (2021) e06378 Various doses of Erythrosine (Red 3) and Tartrazine (Yellow 5) were given to rats for six weeks. At that time, their behavior and ability to recognize objects was evaluated. At the end, their brains were studied … Continue reading
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JBRA Assisted Reproduction. Online ahead of print Every now and again the rumor surfaces that soda can cause infertility or a lower sperm count. According to Live Science, this is an urban myth. In fact, they say Mountain Dew (a … Continue reading
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International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. Dec;56(6):106214. Most studies of Covid-19 involve very sick hospitalized patients. The authors are testing the use of Hydroxycholoroquine (HCQ) plus zinc and an antibiotic (for prevention of secondary lung infection) as an early treatment beginning … Continue reading
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American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. 103(4), pp. 1635-1639 From the chart, you might think that the authors would have concluded that HCQ (Hydroxychloroquine) is a useful treatment for Covid-19, but according to their statistical analysis, they actually concluded … Continue reading
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All mammals nurse their young, feeding them milk produced in their mammary glands. Before the “true” milk itself is produced, however, another fluid called colostrum is provided. It is rich in nutrients as well as various growth factors; it is … Continue reading
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Nutrients. 11, 2412. Review. Although humans have the gene to make Vitamin C (as most other animals do), that gene is inactive. Thus, humans must get it solely from dietary sources. Because of the way it is taken up and … Continue reading
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Study Protocol. BioMed Central Ltd. Psychiatry. 20: 262 This study has not yet happened. It is intended to compare two dietary treatments (an elimination diet and a “healthy” diet) and “Care As Usual” (medication). It is being done in the … Continue reading
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Journal of Pediatric Neurology & Neuroscience. 4(1), 55-72. Case Report. This study was funded by the International Association of Color Manufacturers (IACM) in response to the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), which became concerned … Continue reading
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British Medical Journal Open. 9:e029046. Reviewing numerous studies involving children, adults, and prenatal exposure, the authors concluded that consumption of soft drinks is associated with significantly increased odds of asthma in both adults and children, as well as marginally significant … Continue reading
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Autism Open Access. April; 6(2) Because this is a study on older children, fewer of the children with autism use acetaminophen (Tylenol) as the first choice for fever reduction. Furthermore, acetaminophen is not effective at reducing fever for significantly more … Continue reading
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Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 55(11). 1244-1250. In this study in Denmark, similar to the Zoega et al (2012) study in Iceland, the authors wanted to see if the younger children were more at risk of being prescribed ADHD … Continue reading
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Pediatrics, 130(6); 1012-1018 In a nationwide population-based study, the authors observed the effect of relative age on whether the child was likely to perform adequately in class and on whether the child would be prescribed medication for ADHD. They found … Continue reading
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Child’s Nervous System, 27: 793-802. Using the same testing the International Olympic Committee uses for detecting prohibited excitatory substances, the authors attempted to find out if eating certain foods may create an excess of excitatory substances in the urine of … Continue reading
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The Journal of Pediatrics. 163(5); 1323-1328. The authors here attempted to determine the effect, if any, of soda consumption on aggressive behavior, attention problems, and withdrawn behavior among 5-year-olds. Similar studies on older children had determined that consuming soft drinks … Continue reading
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Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. Feb 11;57(3):524-548. In addition to the problem of illegal and carcinogenic food dyes being added to foods — and the ongoing need to detect them — there is growing concern about the safety … Continue reading
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South African Family Practice,2020 Sep. 3; 62(1): e1-e8 This paper is about a survey of 79 parents of ADHD children aged 5 to 17, in South Africa. The authors report that 92.4% of the parents believed that “reducing sugar or … Continue reading
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Journal of Attention Disorders, 2011 Jul;15(5):403-11. Complete data, including diet and ADHD diagnoses, were obtined on 1,172 adolescents (14 year olds) from the Raine Study which had been following children from birth. The authors noted that the “Western” dietary pattern … Continue reading
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Nutritional Neuroscience, 2020 Sep 4:1-9 In a large group of children followed from birth, data on diet and behavior were obtained on 535 children at both 4 and 6 years old. The foodsinvestigated were divided into four basic groups: Sweet: … Continue reading
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European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, November 2018; 72 (11):1517-1523. The authors studied several eating patterns among Chinese children. While the “processed,” “snack,” and “beverage” dietary patterns were all positively associated with ADHD symptoms, the “vegetarian” (more natural) dietary pattern was … Continue reading
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Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 53 (2020) This paper is a meta-analysis of seven studies considering sugar consumption and ADHD. The authors concluded there is a “positive relationship between overall sugar and sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and symptoms of ADHD.” The authors … Continue reading
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Advances in Neurobiology (2020) 24:481-504 While the research does not prove causation, there seems to clearly be a link between food dyes and symptoms of autism. Not only are there direct neurotoxic effects, but it has been shown that at … Continue reading
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, August 2020, Volume 11, 730, pp. 1-12 An oligoantigenic diet is a few-foods diet, used sometimes to identify foods a child may be allergic to. It excludes all the food dyes, preservatives, and other additives, as well … Continue reading
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Kirkland AE, Langan MT, & Holton KF, Nutritional Neuroscience (2020), DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.2020.1730614 Although this is a small pilot study, and the first to consider young adults, it indicates that food dyes may affect both brainwave activity and ADHD symptoms in … Continue reading
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Healthline Media claims to be “creating a stronger healthier world” by providing “clear, credible, evidence-based health and wellness information that’s distinguished by its compassion for the human experience.” One of its most recent articles, dated September 29, 2020, is failing … Continue reading
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(Updated July 17, 2020)If you have concerns about what is going on in the world of vaccines, you are not alone. I have long been collecting the research on all sides of this issue, and have begun organizing the studies … Continue reading
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Milena Georgieva is a young scientist in Bulgaria with lots of prestigious awards for best scientific excellence practices. Here, she describes the way our DNA functions. The way we live, the way we talk, the way we breathe and the … Continue reading
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Dr. Feingold comments on the FDA study The Kaiser-Permanente/University of California study funded by the FDA is commonly referred to as the FDA study. The study was supportive. One child out of 22 children under controlled conditions reacted unequivocally to … Continue reading
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Feingold diet is worth testing, panel says American Medical News (newsletter of the American Medical Association)January 29, 1982, page 23.
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Just finished: a compilation of all the studies I can find on the food dyes used in the US and their connection with behavior and health. Download here(190 pages) This project was created to help the California Office of Environmental … Continue reading
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Science. 207(4438): 1489-90. Red 3 was applied to nerve synapses in the frog, producing an irreversible, dose-dependent increase in neurotransmitter release. The author suggested this may be useful for studying neurotransmitters, but that the use of Red 3 as a … Continue reading
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European Review for Medical & Pharmacological Sciences. (21): 635-645. Curcumin (an extract of turmeric) was studied to see if it could protect against the kidney and liver damage expected from the ADI of Tartrazine (Yellow 5) given in the diet. … Continue reading
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Toxicology Reports. 5: 146-155. This was not a test of tartrazine (Yellow 5) – they already knew it would be toxic. Rats in the “positive control” group (given Yellow 5) had elevated liver enzymes, cholesterol and triglycerides, as well as … Continue reading
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If you, or your child, have a tic disorder or Tourette’s Syndrome, you may feel like the disorder controls your life. But there is hope — you can manage a tic disorder, naturally, so that you feel in control. Don’t … Continue reading
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Nutrients. May 7;10(5). pii: E573. Rodrigo says that Tourette Syndrome (GTS) and gluten sensitivity may be associated. 23 children and 6 adults were put on a gluten-free diet and followed for a year. They found a “marked reduction” in tics, … Continue reading
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Journal of Child Healthcare. Mar;22(1):68-83 Ludlow and Rogers want to write a review of existing studies, but actually they are stuck with anecdotal reports because so little research has been done in this area. As they say, however, “anecdotal reports … Continue reading
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Nutrients. May 10;10(5). pii: E591 Some of the many substances found in foods are neurotransmitters (NT), including acetylcholine, glutamate, GABA, dopamine, serotonin and histamine. Not only are these neurotransmitters part of the food itself, but they may be added or … Continue reading
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Integrative Food, Nutrition and Metabolism, 2018, 5(4): 1-2 This editorial explores possible nutritional reasons for the huge difference between the United States and the United Kingdom in numbers of children diagnosed with ADHD or autism. After two separate studies in … Continue reading
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Journal of AOAC International, Vol. 101. (epublished ahead of print) This guest editorial is not about the food dyes we know and don’t love — it’s about inedible, dangerous food dyes that are used illegally in foods. There is a … Continue reading
