Are herbal medicines effective? Are organic foods really better for you? Will the cure to cancer eventually come from a newly discovered plant which dwells in the Amazon basin? Will medicines ever become affordable and available to the neediest? How will we produce enough food to keep up with an ever-increasing world population? Written with these issues in mind, Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine is a response to the current flood of conflicting information regarding the use of plants for both consumption and medicinal purposes. Kathleen Hefferon addresses the myths and popular beliefs surrounding the application of plants in human health, revealing both their truths and inaccuracies, and provides an overview of the technologies scientists are using to further their research.
The book covers herbal medicines, functional and biofortified foods, plants and antibiotics, edible vaccines, and organic versus genetically modified foods, discussing each from a scientific standpoint. It these topics together for the first time, providing a much-needed overview of plants as medicine. Intended for scientists and professionals in related disciplines as well as the interested reader educated in the sciences, this book will confront claims made in the media with science and scientific analysis, providing readers with enough background to allow them to make their own judgments.

"No Such Thing as Terminal: The Re-Discovery of the Lost Secret German Cure for Cancer and The Fountain of Youth. " Genetic Engineering is not just a futuristic fantasy which is often how Hollywood portrays it to be. Rather it exists in the here and the now and has been in existence with a technical theory that has been giving positive results since the 1930's. These innovations have however been secretly suppressed for a multitude of reasons not the least of which is political power. Now in this book is discussed one person's accidental hit on the secret cure for cancer using genetic engineering. A cure which has existed since the 1930's and has repeatedly been tried both in vivo and in vitro. Herein is explored one person's speculations, scientific discoveries, and evidence of both the credibility of the medicine and the conspiracy of the cover-up. DNA was not first discovered by Crick and Watson nor were they really the first to describe its structure. This was done long before them with the advent of the invention of Quantum Mechanics which began in earnest in 1926 with the work of Schrodinger and earlier with the work of Von Laue in crystallography.

In Part II of this special issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, Dr. Krau is serving as Guest Editor again to provide information on complementary and alternative medicine with specific focus on herbal supplements and vitamins. Distinguished authors have contributed clinical reviews devoted to the following topics: Precautions when using Herbal Medications and Supplements; Vitamin B6 and its role in Women's Health; Fat Soluble Vitamins; Vitamin D: Vitamin or Hormone; Enhancing Cognitive Function with Herbal Supplements; Herbal Medications Used in Women's Health; Herbal Medication to Enhance or Modulate Viral Infections; Herbal Medications used to treat fevers; Traditional and Current Use of Ginseng; Herbal Medications Used to ameliorate cardiac conditions; Cannabis, Marijuana, and CBD oil; and Highs, Lows, & Health Hazards of Herbology-A Review of Herbal Medications with Psychotropic Effects. Knowledge of this information is not easy to find in the nursing literature, and Dr. Krau believes readers will come away with valuable information on managing patients who use complementary and alternative herbal supplements and vitamins.