Townsend Letter

12/05/2025

*The Vagus Nerve and the Spirit-Mind, Gut, and Immune System Connection: Lifestyle and Botanical Intervention*

Does behavior drive disease? Are we been missing the boat with our treatment approaches and medicines? Is our poor gastrointestinal health (GI) affecting our behavior, mood and cognitive ability, or is our behavior affecting our GI health?

12/02/2025

*When the Body Keeps the Score: How Stored Pain Becomes Physical Disease*

When emotional experiences overwhelm our nervous system's capacity to handle them in the moment, our body has no choice but to store them. Over time, this creates what we see in Heart Rate Variability studies, where people with unresolved trauma show desynchronized patterns between breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure.

12/01/2025

From celebrity culture to social media, we are surrounded by images of what it means to “make it.” But many who appear to “have it all” live hollow lives, battling loneliness, addiction, or despair. Outward triumph cannot compensate for inward darkness.

The answer is *Living With Complete Honesty - No More Lies*

By Gary Null, PhD - From celebrity culture to social media, we are surrounded by images of what it means to “make it.” But many who appear to “have it all” live hollow lives, battling loneliness, addiction, or despair. Outward triumph cannot compensate for inward voids, and living honestly m...

11/12/2025

*Osteoporosis: Myths, Perceptions, and Truths, and Natural Solutions with Nutrition and Botanicals*

With osteoporosis, bone loss can eventually absorb up to 1/3rd of your total bone mass, leaving the remaining bone thin, porous, and subject to fractures. An integrative program of botanical and nutritional compounds, together with diet and exercise, can support bone health and general health—without drugs.

11/05/2025

Do you know the link between *Coffee and Longevity*? Coffee headlines often skip what matters in real life: dose, additives, timing, and how your body metabolizes caffeine.

Coffee is not a "superfood". There are no superfoods. But moderate amounts of coffee—especially black coffee or lightly sweetened—can be part of a smart longevity plan, including for men focused on prostate health.

11/04/2025

By working with evolutionary dynamics rather than against them, we can develop treatment strategies that are more effective, less toxic, and more sustainable over the long term, opening up entirely new therapeutic possibilities. *When Less is More – Evolutionary Medicine in Prostate Cancer*

10/28/2025

*Surge in Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer*
Prostate cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death (after lung cancer) in men worldwide, and a recent report has highlighted a surge in clinically significant prostate cancer. Why?

10/28/2025

Do you know *What We Need To Know About The Forever Chemicals*? They are a threat to the environment and its occupants, and while progress is made in diagnosing and treating exposure, the best plan remains avoiding these harmful, man-made, forever chemicals.

10/16/2025

In *The Nature of Pain*, the author provides a brief explanation of alternative therapies for pain relief, aiming to improve patients' quality of life, and help each patient find the best individualized plan.

10/15/2025

Infrared therapy is showing promise for nerve repair and chronic pain relief by stimulating angiogenesis — the growth of new blood vessels that restore circulation and healing. *When Red Light Means Go: Infrared Therapy and Angiogenesis,* explains the science behind red light therapy and its potential role in health and healing.

10/14/2025

In *Pain and Consequences: How Corruption, Addiction, and Failed Oversight Fueled a National Epidemic*, investigative reporting by Sam Hornblower reveals how FDA failures, political pressure, and corporate lobbying fueled the opioid epidemic — leaving the public unprotected, and lives devastated.

10/13/2025

There is a full array of natural and other treatments to support sleep, or most chronic pain, and addressing micronutrients and sleep are the keys to increasing tissue metabolic energy. Address these types of issues, and you could have *Pain Relief in 3 Simple Steps*.