Pop quiz: what is the most important factor determining whether a woman has a cesarean or not? How healthy she is? How big her baby is? Whether she has pregnancy complications? These all seem like reasonable answers, but the research tells a different story.
A large body of literature suggests that where a woman gives birth [...]

If you had your baby in a United States hospital in 2005:

There’s a 1 in 3 chance you had cesarean surgery.
There’s less than a 2% chance that you experienced a package of evidence-based care practices known to ease labor and prevent complications.
You most likely were separated from your baby during the first hour after giving [...]

1. Educate yourself about endocrine disruptors, and educate your family and friends. Read the novel or other books (like Our Stolen Future: www.ourstolenfuture.com) and share them with others. I wrote a fact-based eco-thriller, because I wanted to share these issues with people in a way that was entertaining as well as informative and that allows [...]

Why do some children and adults get sick from these chemical contaminants and others do not? This is an important question that has to do with genes, chemical cocktails, and even possibly stress.
While I was researching my novel, I posed this question to John Peterson Myers, co-author of the pioneering and now classic, Our Stolen [...]

On June 27, 2009, Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times reported that over 80% of the male smallmouth bass swimming in the Potomac River had eggs. You read that right, male fish having eggs. Well, unless a lot has changed since my biology class, males are not supposed to have eggs. Unfortunately a lot [...]

From 1973 to 1999, childhood cancers increased by 26 percent, making cancer the greatest health threat to children. Currently, one in a 100 8-year-old children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers, and the number might be as high as 1 in [...]

I am honored to serve as a guest blogger on Dr. Greene’s marvelous site. My wife is a holistic physician, and we tried to raise our children green, but there was much less knowledge about green parenting. We could really have used Raising Baby Green and Feeding Baby Green! We know first hand that it [...]

Although it was just a couple of weeks ago when my doctor looked me in the eye and called me cured of the breast cancer that had almost ended my life, I’ve actually considered myself free from cancer for quite some time. When I was diagnosed, Alan and I took a serious look at our [...]

I started off with one of the strongest Western medicine available, and at the end of my treatment, I was in a very vulnerable position. The cancer was gone, but the first year after treatment has the highest risk of recurrence. And cancer that comes back during this time usually spreads very quickly and is very [...]

When I started treatment, my goal was to make sure the medical staff thought of me as the perfect patient. I was going to do exactly what they said to do and follow all the rules - and I was going to be happy about it.
The first six or seven months, that was the way [...]