August 1st, 2026

Our Mission

To champion optimal health through education, scientific inquiry, collaboration, and open discourse that honours our dynamic connection to nature and innate wisdom.

In This Issue

• Meet new CHA Director Alan Cassels
• The Great Menopause Grift
• NHPPA Launches New Homeopathic Network to Defend Natural Health Access
• How And Why Pomegranate Protects Your Heart, Fights Cancer, and Restores Your Vitality
• The ABCs of Disease Mongering

Executive Director’s Message

We had another fantastic ‘Quantum Manifesting’ training session with Darylle Virginia Dennis earlier this week. The theme of her training this week was “The Quantum Field is a Mirror.” This is such a pertinent topic which reminds us that, essentially, what we put out we get back, which is exactly why I was talking about the importance of being a “glass half full” type of person in last week’s newsletter.

The more positivity we have, the higher our vibrational frequency and the more we attract matching positive things (be they people, experiences, coincidences, “luck”, etc). But it works both ways, so the more negative we are, the more we attract matching negative people and negative experiences, which obviously we need to try to avoid at all costs.

As Thomas Jefferson, the American ‘Founding Father,’ the third President of the United States once said, “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. However, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” While I am sure Jefferson did not know about Quantum Manifesting, this quote proves he definitely understood its foundational principles. And the more we learn and understand these principles from people like Darylle, the more we can apply and leverage this power to improve our own lives and our own destiny.

Be sure to book your spot in Darylle’s next (and final) Quantum Training session, which will be on the evening of Tuesday, August 25th, in which she will be teaching us about “High Frequency Foods that Raise Consciousness” (see the poster below).

Meanwhile, in today’s edition of this newsletter we celebrate Alan Cassels joining our Canada Health Alliance Board of Directors and revel in some of his writing.

Alan is a highly accomplished researcher and is one of Canada’s leading voices against the hijacking and abuse of healthcare by profit-hungry corporations. Today our feature article is his ‘The Great Menopause Grift’ and our book of the week is his ‘ABCs of Disease Mongering.’ We are so fortunate to have him on board, and you can expect us to be running a lot more of this writing and research over the weeks and months to come.

Thank you, and have a great weekend.

Alan Brough
CHA Board Member – alan.brough@canadahealthalliance.org

Quote of the Week

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement;
Nothing can be done without hope.”

Helen Keller

Wins of the Week

This week there have been a good spread of local and international wins, which we have shortlist to these few…

1. As of yesterday, (July 31st, 2026) Albertans will be able to pay directly out-of-pocket for medical tests like MRIs, X-rays, CT scans, and ultrasounds without needing a referral the Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced earlier this week. This is part of the province’s broader strategic plan to improve cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment access, and will allow patients to pay directly for tests and potentially be reimbursed if they are diagnosed with cancer. The champion of private healthcare in Canada is Dr. Brian Day from Vancouver (who we greatly admire) who has fought for more than 14 years through the court system to expand private health-care options in British Columbia. Sadly, Day was ultimately crushed by the Supreme Court of Canada, but what Day championed is now on the cusp of achieving partial success in Alberta, where the provincial government recently put forward a proposal to allow surgeons to perform privately paid elective surgeries outside their regular hours in the public system. “It’s certainly a good start. But it needs another step. That is to legalize private insurance coverage for all services,” Day said, commenting on this latest positive development coming out of Alberta.
2. On Wednesday, as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Red Deer, a group of international students held a protest at the venue claiming that their applications for post-graduation work permits had been denied. When pressed on the subject, Carney said that there was “a process” for people without authorization to remain in Canada. However, Danielle Smith was much clearer in her stand, stating bluntly that, “If you come here as an international student and your visa expires and you don’t have permanent residency, you need to go home.” As jobs become ever scarcer for young Canadians, many will see her stand as a win, especially for Albertans.
3. Still in Alberta, police-reported crime severity in Alberta RCMP jurisdictions fell to its lowest level in more than a decade in 2025, according to a new Statistics Canada report. The Crime Severity Index (CSI), which measures both the volume and seriousness of police-reported offences, dropped a full 10.4% across 149 Alberta RCMP jurisdictions compared with 2024. Commenting on this at the release of the data, a police spokesperson said, “Alberta continues to take action to ensure the province has a policing model that is responsive, sustainable and designed to meet Alberta’s long-term needs.”
4. Anthony Fauci was ordered to appear at the US Senate in Washington DC on Wednesday (July 29, 2026) to face questions about what really happened with Covid, the Wuhan Lab and why Moderna’s 2016 patented gene sequence mysteriously turned up in SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked 111 questions during the contentious congressional hearing on the origins of Covid-19 and his role in leading the government’s response to the pandemic. And, as expected, 111 times, Fauci said the same thing: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” To force Fauci into a position of contempt, at one point he was asked, “What colour is your tie?” and Fauci still pleaded the 5th. However, the win of all this is that immediately after the hearing, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that his office is launching an investigation into Fauci. “Fauci’s lack of candour to Congress is unbelievable,” Uthmeier wrote on X. “My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during Covid.” Legal experts said Biden’s preemptive pardon doesn’t protect Fauci from state-level charges, so it looks like he might actually end up getting prosecuted after all!
5. As part of the above investigation, US Senator Josh Hawley has accused Anthony Fauci of enriching himself during the Covid-19 pandemic and (amongst other things) for improperly using federal employees to pursue lucrative cash awards. In the US Senate hearing on Wednesday, Fauci repeatedly declined to answer Hawley’s questions, invoking the Fifth Amendment. Hawley blamed Fauci’s refusal to answer questions on his wanting to avoid discussing what Hawley described as misconduct during the pandemic that led to a personal accumulation of wealth (estimated to be about US$12 million). “It’s because you did all kinds of terrible things,” Hawley said. “It’s because during the pandemic, you got rich, didn’t you? You got rich while people were dying, hundreds of thousands of Americans, over a million in the end, and you were getting rich.” Hawley concluded by stating that Fauci had become “a narcissist, a megalomaniac and a liar.” We will definitely keep following this developing story.
6. Finally, in what I think is actually the biggest Win of the Week, and perhaps one of the contenders for ‘Win of the Year,’ the Midwestern Doctor summarized the scandal of Dr. Fauci’s Senate Hearing testimony with the following comment: “This illustrates an unfortunate reality—the loudest “follow the science” voices are often the most illiterate grifters. Fortunately, as the hearing showed, public opinion is turning against this paradigm and now that the unconditional trust medicine relies upon has been broken, there is a real window for alternatives to the existing paradigm to flourish.” Amen!
7. As an aside, all of the above has also been a personal win for US Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy as his book “The Real Anthony Fauci” that was published back in 2021 right at the start of all this madness has been fully vindicated, and in the last 48 hours his book is now right back on the Bestseller List! In 2021, RFK Jr. was a voice in the wilderness, and his book was published in the face of censorship, shadow banning, and book review blacklisting. Once again, everything he so meticulously researched has been proven to be right all along…

If you have any personal, local or national wins that you think we should share and celebrate please email then to me at alan.brough@canadahealthalliance.org

Alan Cassels, from a picture published in the European Lifelong Learning Magazine, credit for which goes to Karoliina Knuuti.

Meet New CHA Director Alan Cassels

We are very pleased to announce that earlier this month Alan Cassels, who is a highly acclaimed and very well-known drug policy researcher and author has joined the Board of Directors of Canada Health Alliance.

Alan is our second new Director to join our Board just in the month of July (Lynda McLeod being the first), and he brings a great deal of experience, knowledge and an extraordinary passion for the truth to our Board.

Alan, who lives on Vancouver Island strongly believes that humans need clean, clear health information as urgently as they need clean water. Consequently, he has been immersed in pharmaceutical policy research and healthcare journalism for over 30 years, mostly researching and writing about how prescription drugs are regulated, marketed, prescribed and used.

He has a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration specializing in pharmaceutical policy. His niche is in examining the gaps between the marketing and the science around prescription drugs and medical screening, frequently exposing the many forces of disease creation.

His books include “Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning us All into Patients” (co-written with Ray Moynihan), “The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An Epidemic in 26 Letters” (which is our Book of the Week (see the details below…), and “Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease.” His last book is “The Cochrane Collaboration: Medicine’s Best Kept Secret,” about the history of this important organization that helps synthesize medical research.

In his writings Alan focuses on the needs of the end-user, ordinary people like you and I, facing the sharp end of the medical industry’s marketing machine which is increasingly selling us tests, treatments and theories of disease that threaten to turn more and more of us into patients.

He currently works as an independent researcher and writer, is a Fellow of the Brownstone Institute (https://brownstone.org), and consults for the Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics (https://ficebo.com) based in Helsinki.

We are also very pleased to be running one of Alan’s recent articles as published by the Brownstone Institute below, making today’s edition of the CHA Newsletter, a “full feature” of Alan’s great research and writing.

On behalf of all the Board of Directors and all CHA Members we welcome Alan and look forward to the positive influence he will have on our organization and on our efforts to expose the blight of disease creation that we have seen in North America over the last few decades.

If you are not already following Alan Cassels, to better appreciate the quality of Alan Cassels research and writing see:

1. The following feature article below titled ‘The Great Menopause Grift’ which was written by Alan and published just last week by the Brownstone Institute.
2. Our Book of the Week this week, ‘The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An Epidemic in 26 Letters’ also by Alan Cassels.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: The Highly Acclaimed 3-part “Hands-On Homeopathy” Training Course with Dr. Stephen Malthouse.

IT’S BACK! We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Stephen Malthouse’s ‘Hands-On Homeopathy course will be running again in September. This course is very popular so definitely reserve your seat in the session right now while you can!

In this updated 3-part course you will learn how to become a prescribing homeopath while having a good laugh! Rave reviews make this one of the most attended CHA courses we have ever run. So why not put the beginner skills of a prescribing homeopath in your pocket for those minor illnesses that crop up at home or while traveling.

This 3-evening course in homeopathy (2 hours per evening, once weekly) will focus on the practical aspects of getting started using homeopathy for family and friends. You’ll want to keep a remedy kit handy – you’re going to be using it after taking this Hands-On training.

• Course dates: September 14, 21 and 28, 2026.
• Start time: 5:30 pm PT / 6.30 pm MT / 8.30 pm EST
• Course duration: 2 hours each night, so 6 hours of tuition in total.
• Cost: $140. (includes workbook). Discounted price for for CHA, CCCA and VCC members = $110. Textbook must be purchased separately (approx. $20 – $24) but spouses can join the classes for free.
• And the very exciting added benefit is that Homeopathic remedy kits (from Boiron Canada) will be made available at a significantly reduced “professional” price for graduates.

For more information and registration details email smalthouse@protonmail.com and please add ‘Hands-On Homeopathy course’ in the subject line.

The Great Menopause Grift

By Alan Cassels

Well, well, look here. In its June 2026 update the venerated OED or Oxford English Dictionary, finally added the ‘new’ word, fearmongering. It explains fearmongering as “the action or an act of spreading fear or alarm among the public, esp. by exaggerating the dangers associated with a political, social, or economic issue; alarmism.”

Thank goodness, the dictionary has caught up to our society’s most pernicious habit; that is, using fear to sell anything. Especially when it comes to our health.

Here we find the most destructive aspect of fearmongering, ie: trying to convince normal, healthy people we are “abnormal” or “sick,” and fundamentally changing the way we think about ourselves. The marketing of fear often drives people to their doctors, and to the inevitable prescription pad, with predictable results: people getting unnecessary, sometimes harmful drugs for natural, normal phases of life.

The grift goes wide and deep. Many influencers and physician-educators have financial ties through sponsored content or brand partnerships, sometimes pushing lines of supplements, telehealth services, books, or their appearances on the speaking circuit. Sadly, information about who funds them to say what they say is not always straightforward and the top social media posts about certain drugs or therapies often obscure their potential conflicts of interest (e.g., selling related products/services).

We know that many of these campaigns are backed by medical specialists or social media influencers, wedded to their theories and pushing whatever to cash in on all the fear. Those campaigns are about ‘moving product’ by subtly convincing millions of healthy people that their bodies are broken, dysfunctional, deficient, and decaying. I’ve written these words before but they are worth repeating: fearmongering is an assault on our collective soul and the theft of wellness for which we all pay a high price.

Full-On Menopause Mongering

We can see fearmongering everywhere, but the most brazen current example is the full-frontal assault on menopause. If you’ve read a newspaper or scrolled through social media lately you might be asking yourself: Why the heck is everyone getting worked up about menopause? Are hot flashes taking over the planet? Are women really as angry as the media portrays them to be? And the drugs: who do you believe about whether the drugs will help or harm you?

These are good questions, focusing on a condition that every woman—our mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers and so on – went through, back to the dawn of time. The fearmongering today bypasses the fact that most women who arrive at the end of their periods get through this phase without serious discomfort or suffering. For some, it’s a big “meh.” Others might be helped by what’s on offer but they have to swim through a sea of corporate-sponsored fearmongering messages to get there.

The key theme in most of the media stories is that women’s needs are unmet, many of them are deeply suffering and they all need to be considering MHT (Menopausal Hormone Therapy) in order to live their best lives. By the way, MHT is the new way hormones are branded, which used to be called HRT (hormone replacement therapy). Same stuff, different wrapping, carrying less baggage of the HRT horrors of the past.

In the mainstream media you’ll find oodles of journalists in love with a story like this, featuring female suffering, emancipation, and empowerment in one tight little bundle with enough frilly gift wrapping to hide pharma’s fingerprints. The dangers of hormones haven’t changed, only the marketing of those dangers has.

This might have been kicked off by a story, “Women Have Been Misled About Menopause” in the New York Times Magazine, (Feb 1, 2023) a long-form essay which barely camouflages a shameless bit of salesmanship, setting the tone for so many other media outlets to follow. It aims to correct those who are still being ‘misled’ by outdated ideas about the dangers of hormone therapy, mainly breast cancer, also asserting that there are more “updated” interpretations of the alleged dangers of these drugs.

A newer New York Times article from last month (June 15, 2026) claims “Millions of Women are Left Out of Menopause’s Moment” and further cements the hormone marketing by telling the sorry tale of those women who are totally FOMO because they are at a higher risk of breast cancer and therefore shouldn’t dip their toes into the hormone pool.

Menopause mongering got a huge bump a while back when the US FDA reversed a 20-year-old black box warning of the dangers of hormone therapy and many media outlets (NPR, Slate, Nature,) jumped on the bandwagon and leapt into covering the issues related to the removal of black-box warnings on HRT. Note to file: Black boxes are the most serious warnings applied to approved pharmaceuticals. The manufacturers fight like hell not to get a black box on their products, and when there is one there, they fight like hell to have it removed, regardless of whether their arguments are warranted. In this case, they won.

The official FDA/HHS announcement was titled: “HHS Advances Women’s Health, Removes Misleading FDA Warnings on Hormone Replacement Therapy.”

Pure unadulterated marketing. The science behind why those black box warnings of blood clots, cancers, and strokes didn’t change, so why remove the black box? Yet here you have a senior FDA official saying: “The removal of the black box warning, based on the best science and data, is an incredible step forward to empower millions of women to live longer, healthier lives.”

You can read about how disempowering it is to bamboozle women about the dangers of hormones in my last Brownstone article on this issue, where I report that the sudden stopping of hormone replacement therapy 20 years ago resulted in the biggest drop in breast cancer rates in the US ever.

But. But. But….Didn’t you hear that there is a huge “unmet need” that has to be fulfilled? That essentially is the thrust of the media’s take over the last two years on this very topic.

A sample of this includes Nature’s January 2025 article: “The new science of menopause: these emerging therapies could change women’s health” and Slate’s November 2025 Article “How Did Perimenopause Get So Popular?” This article made lots of hay out of the little sister of menopause, “perimenopause” which cranks up the fearmongering while aiming it at younger and younger women. In the words of the marketers (and Kramer from Seinfeld), you don’t sell the steak, you sell the sizzle. And there’s nothing better to seed a market than to tell younger and younger cohorts of women what kind of special hell will await them when their periods are over. That’ll get them positively tripping over each other to get to their doctors for their hormone prescriptions.

One of the brighter stars among the media stories of menopause was a piece this January in STAT News “How the perimenopause movement is hurting women,” which is, as far as I can tell, one of the only stories bothering to delve into the real harms of hormone therapy. Today women are being more and more exposed to promotional messages and downplaying the harm of a product we know increases risks of breast cancer, regardless of patients’ age or the formulation.

Added to this collection are pieces in Time, Forbes, Vogue, The Atlantic, focusing on the “Menopause Industry Boom” and the way celebrities are onboard with selling the idea of menopause as a “wellness opportunity” rather than just a medical event.

Here you see fear being sold in almost every conceivable space in the world of menopause. There is the fear of missing out, the fear of the drugs, the fear of the suffering, and the fear of the alternatives. There is the fear that doctors won’t take a woman’s hot flashes and night sweats seriously, there is the fear of consequences in the workplace and women fearing career discrimination because of what menopause is doing to them, and there is the fear of their bodies not being attractive or sexual in a way they are used to. Fear everywhere.

Women might feel that they are being betrayed by their ovaries, while also being shoveled hefty amounts of psychology, and “wellness” products including the pills, creams, and pricey interventions like it’s the end of femininity.

There is a price tag to all of this, not just in the vertigo women might feel in the menopause marketplace, but in what it might cost them. Estimates are that the global menopause market is worth around $16–18 billion per year, but that is projected to grow to $24+ billion by 2030–2033. Suffice to say there is a lot of grift to be found in the medicalizing and medicating of menopause.

Pharma’s influence is pernicious and ubiquitous, even if it doesn’t seem that obvious to the casual observer. Drug companies have their hands in medical societies, research organizations, and educational/ marketing campaigns that shape narratives. Many of us would assert that the current pro-HRT renaissance (emphasizing a hormone’s benefits while downplaying the known and serious harms) is partly driven by industry-friendly messaging, even if direct-to-consumer ads for hormones are rare.

Except for patented alternatives. Here’s the fearmongering again, this time to subtly promote “non-hormonal” menopausal drugs. On February 11, 2024, Astella’s newly approved menopausal drug, Veozah was advertised on the biggest billboard in the world, at Super Bowl LVIII. Astellas aired a 60-second commercial for Veozah just before kickoff, featuring a tagline “Fewer Hot Flashes, More Not Flashes.”

Pushing Veozah (fezolinetant) as a non-hormonal treatment might seem clever, but it acts to further medicalize hot flashes, which for many women are trivial and are often dealt with quite effectively without drugs. The worrisome side effect profile of Veozah would make one think twice about this medication costing between $500 to $700 a month. In a year-long trial, the most common adverse reactions were pain, diarrhea, insomnia, back pain, and hot flashes. Go figure. Drug-induced liver injury is the real worry, and the elevation in liver enzymes means that women need to have baseline liver tests repeated at 3, 6, and 9 months. All this for some mild symptom relief. Hope the risk of liver failure was worth it.

Everyone’s Talking Empowerment (But Nobody’s Doing It)

Thankfully we no longer refer to menopause as an “estrogen deficiency disease,” a corporate-sponsored tagline if there ever was one. But we still have a long way to go.

Much of the commentary and media reports today focus on how to deal with the symptoms of menopause, which assert that doctors are basically missing in action when it comes to menopause, and that patients need, more than anything, “empowerment.”

What an old-fashioned thought that is: you mean women should ignore all the junk science, pharma marketing, and menopausal grifters out there and just follow their own intuition? Sounds like what Grandma would have done.

There are no glib and easy answers to all the menopausal marketing surrounding us, but perhaps the least offensive summary I’ve seen was a March 2024 article published in the medical journal, the Lancet, called “An empowerment model for managing menopause.” 

While obnoxiously heavy on the “hormonal remake” theme, there are some key points worth noting. Particularly, menopause isn’t a disease; it’s a life phase for women who live long enough. The symptoms often come in miserable bundles — hot flashes, ruined sleep, low mood. Patients face it and doctors have to deal with it and they should do so beyond the default reflex which is a script for hormones and a pamphlet.

While no one can argue against respecting the clichés of “evidence-based” options and “shared decision-making,” we can’t forget that “evidence-based” often means whatever specialists push and what’s easiest to prescribe. In this case, hormones, or MHT as they’ve rebranded it. For those who say menopause is a normal life stage rather than a pharmaceutical marketing opportunity, the menopause salespeople and other grifters are singing loudly, “Don’t be Cruel.”

The Lancet, similar to most vocal menopause specialists, insists that MHT is the only thing that fixes both hot flashes and genitourinary symptoms (while providing some small level of reduced fractures). No doubt the pills are convenient, especially for the industries and guidelines which favor a one-stop pill solution.

At the end of the day if “true empowerment” is possible, the experience of menopause for many women could be better. They don’t need more pills or lotions, though some may be helped by these. They need good information, respect, and above all, agency.

Qualitative work done in the UK shows menopause is “simultaneously normal, devastating, identity-shifting, and liberating,” which is to say, all over the map. Something this complex cannot be solved with clinical one-liners and fancy treatment algorithms. At the same time misinforming women as to the actual benefits and long-term harms of hormones is not cool, especially when that advice is delivered with a big dose of white-coated confidence, amnesia, and hubris.

The Lancet article manages to get to the heart of the issue: helping women manage symptoms is important, but medicalizing every aspect of menopause can be downright harmful.

Thankfully the Lancet does give a shout-out to a practical way for women to regain the kind of agency many of them want: CBT or cognitive behavioural therapy has shown some level of benefit. It reports that “for symptom clusters such as hot flashes, disturbed sleep, and depressed mood, RCTs show that CBT is effective.”

How? Well, this makes me recall the work of the philosopher Viktor Frankl, who wrote Man’s Search for Meaning. His main message is that although you can’t always change your circumstances, you can choose your attitude toward them. That’s a helpful perspective to adopt when facing many of life’s challenges. If CBT helps women learn about their symptoms, accept them, and help them develop ways to cope with them, that might go a lot further than the flotsam washing in on a tidal wave of fearmongering.

Back to Frankl for a second. He wrote that finding meaning in life is the primary human motivational force. The ability to find meaning through work, love, and suffering could always be seen as a way forward. Many women seeking some kind of help for this particular transition in their lives have both time and options on their hands. They can, if they choose, go forward and demand to be taken seriously, without succumbing to the sharp end of the menopausal marketing machine.

Let’s sing an ode to menopause, wrapped up in a little rhyme.
Or hum a wistful song for wombs that’ve clearly done their time.
Let’s make a plea for all life’s stages, as all things must finally pass,
And let’s expose the grifters’ motives, with a bit of snarky sass.
Let’s not forget the lying, their fearmongering shrill notes,
Let’s ask the specialists why we should trust their clean white coats.
Let’s put the lie to cringy brags of pharma’s innovative growth, 
Let’s look at how we trampled the sacred Hippocratic oath. 
Let’s not forget the central thing, the one essential theme,
That flies far further than the mongers’ wicked meme.
That within a single woman her fate is hers and hers alone. 
And she needs freedom’s will to act on what is felt and known.

Alan Cassels

We would like to thank Alan Cassels for giving us permission to re-publish this article and would like to credit The Brownstone Institute for publishing the above original at: https://brownstone.org/articles/the-great-menopause-grift/.

We would recommend subscribing to the Brownstone Institute at: https://brownstone.org/subscribe/ and accessing their excellent archive of articles, white papers and research documents.

If you would like to share this article you can find it in our Canada Health Alliance website Library at: https://canadahealthalliance.org/library/the-great-menopause-grift/

Next week we will continue to explore this topic with Alan’s article titled ‘The Biggest Breast Cancer Advance in the Last Twenty Years’ which was published in May. Don’t miss it!

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NHPPA Launches New Homeopathic Network to Defend Natural Health Access

Homeopathy is in danger and the Natural Health Product Protection Agency (NHPPA) is doing something about it!

Homeopathic practitioners across Canada are facing increasing regulatory pressures that threaten their ability to practice and, crucially, limit patients’ access to the care they choose and trust. These growing challenges risk restricting or even eliminating access to homeopathy for thousands of Canadians who rely on it as part of their health and wellness journey.

To meet this threat head-on, the NHPPA has launched the NHPPA Homeopathic Network. This new portal delivers essential resources for practitioners and the public alike, including educational seminars, presentations, and up-to-date materials. It equips homeopaths and patients to understand regulatory developments and take practical action to protect access to this vital traditional system of medicine.

Visit this new, very important and timely Homeopathic Network portal at https://nhppa.org/homeopathic-network/

How And Why Pomegranate Protects Your Heart, Fights Cancer, and Restores Your Vitality

Dr. Joseph Mercola recently published a very interesting article on the incredible health benefits of the ‘ancient fruit’ pomegranate. We recommend you read his entire article, which unpacks the following summarized points:

• Pomegranate is one of the most antioxidant-rich fruits on Earth, protecting your cells from oxidative stress — the same process that drives aging, inflammation, and chronic disease
• The peel contains 12 times more antioxidants than the juice or seeds, supporting heart health, blood sugar balance, and immune defense while fighting harmful bacteria and inflammation
• Compounds like punicalagins, ellagic acid, and urolithins work together to slow the growth of cancer cells, block tumour-feeding blood vessels, and balance hormones involved in breast and prostate cancers
• Research shows pomegranate’s unique nutrients support your brain, skin, and metabolism, helping maintain memory, collagen production, and healthy circulation as you age
• Using the whole fruit — seeds, juice, peel, and even seed oil — provides a safe, natural way to strengthen your body’s defenses, reduce inflammation, and promote longevity from the inside out

You can read Dr. Mercola’s full and detailed article on this that includes a fascinating Q&A in his article archive at: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2026/07/24/pomegranate.aspx

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Book of the Week

The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An Epidemic in 26 Letters

By CHA Board Member ALAN CASSELS

According to the Good Reads review of this book, “Alan Cassels, co-author of the international bestseller “Selling How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients,” returns to his favourite topic armed with outrageous humour and even more outrageous facts.

As if Dr. Seuss had taken on an overmedicated, overdiagnosed culture, Alan Cassels offers up a great romp of disorders that go bump in the night, along with the industry-sponsored drugs marketed to make us better again.

This illustrated, verse-form alphabet is not for the faint of heart at any age. It is, however, meticulously footnoted for theraputic use by consumers and health policy pundits of all shapes, sizes and chemical compositions.Take all twenty six letters of Cassels’ alphabet with a dose of good old skeptical humour. Trust us, your health care policy will feel better in the morning.”

While in their review the Canadian Medical Association Journal said, “The University of Victoria pharmaceutical policy researcher uses clever tools — children’s verse, one for each letter of the alphabet — to illustrate a central proposition: that the only legitimate response to many aspects of, and practices within, modern pharmaceutical-based medicine is a generous dollop of skepticism.

Many interventions, Cassels argues, are fuelled strictly by corporate greed, while many of the flogged pharmaceuticals have little health benefit. Some may actually be hazardous. Of the latter, a number have been widely publicized, like the perils of taking estrogen for menopause. Furthermore, treatments for osteoporosis, prehypertension, pre-diabetes, social anxiety disorder, andropause and nail fungus are among those identified as little more than a sham, if not downright dangerous.

The medical profession, driven by the dictates of the pharmaceutical industry, contributes to a self-perpetuating cycle of affairs that Cassels calls “disease mongering,” in which all involved profit from deluding people into believing there is a pharmaceutical solution to whatever may ail them.”

While this book is not widely available, and is no longer in print, you can order it directly from Alan Cassels for $22.00, plus shipping at $8.00, so $30 in total. To place your order drop us an email at info@canadahealthalliance.org and we will let you know the payment and delivery details.

Meetings & Events

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 – Part 3 of the Quantum Manifesting training course presented by Darylle Virginia Dennis, titled ‘HIGH FREQUENCY FOODS RAISE CONSCIOUSNESS.’ In this unique training session you will learn the secrets of how healthy food can enhance your ability to raise your consciousness – and your ability to manifest! This exclusive session starts at 4.30 pm PT / 7.30 pm EST and tickets cost US$33.00 which you can buy off Darylle’s website at, https://QuantumLeadership.Group

September 8, 9, 10 and 11, 2026 – The Allison Inquiry will start hearing the testimony of Canadians injured by a Covid-19 vaccine. The Inquiry will be broadcast live from Parliament Hill in Ottawa. This will be the first time that Canadian lawmakers will be listening to Canadians about their experiences with the Covid-19 vaccines. Visit the Allison Inquiry website at https://covidtestimony.com for more information.

September 10 to 12 – The 2026 Reclaiming Birth Gathering, at the Mount Alverno Luxury Resort in Caledon, Ontario. Now in its fourth year, the Reclaiming Birth Gathering is an established movement that brings back our primal knowing. It’s a living network of people who are moving forward with a deep respect for our body’s intelligence and our shared experiences – reminding us of the wild wisdom that lives within. Mothers, families and birth workers come together and Reclaim Birth to collectively question what we’ve been taught and honour the quiet intelligence beneath the noise. Change begins here – in conversation, in connection, and in community. For more information and to register your participation, visit the website at https://www.reclaimingbirthconference.com/

Monday September 14, 21 and 28, 2026 – Back by popular demand: Dr. Stephen Malthouse’s ‘Hands-On Homeopathy course’ In which you will learn how to become a prescribing homeopath while having a good laugh! Rave reviews make this one of the most attended CHA courses we have ever run. Why not put the beginner skills of a prescribing homeopath in your pocket for those minor illnesses that crop up at home or while traveling. This 3-evening course in homeopathy (2 hours per evening, once weekly) will focus on the practical aspects of getting started using homeopathy for family and friends. You’ll want to keep a remedy kit handy – you’re going to be using it after taking this Hands-On training.

• Course dates: Sept 14, 21 and 28, 2026.
• Start time: 5:30 pm PT / 6.30 pm MT / 8.30 pm EST
• Course duration: 2 hours each night, so 6 hours of tuition in total.
• Cost: $140. (includes workbook). Discounted price for for CHA, CCCA and VCC members = $110. Textbook must be purchased separately (approx. $20 – $24) but spouses can join the classes for free.
• And the very exciting added benefit is that Homeopathic remedy kits (from Boiron Canada) will be made available at a significantly reduced “professional” price for graduates.

For more information and registration details email smalthouse@protonmail.com and please add ‘Hands-On Homeopathy course’ in the subject line.

Thursday, September 17, 2026 – TRUTH BE TOLD, A Unique Mega 6-hour Livestreamed Truth-Telling Discussion hosted by The Shadowbanned Library. In this live streamed conversation there will be five leading internationally renown authors and investigators who will each be presenting their truth. The panel includes UNBEKOMING, who will be presenting on The Unvaccinated—a topic that is of utmost importance in 2026, David Parker, who will be presenting The Nature of Reality and Jamie Andrews, who, through the Virology Control Studies, uses science to debunk science. Then in her presentation, Medicine Girl will be blowing the lid off everything you thought you knew about emergency medicine. And finally, we’ll have Agent131711 who will be providing you with a presentation so shocking that you can’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it all. The cost of this incredible 6-hour event which starts at 9 am PT / 10 am MT / 12 noon EST will be $73 CND and tickets can be bought at: https://shadowbannedlibrary.com/products/truth-be-told-ticket

September 26 to 28 – Holosonic (Tuning Fork) Sound Therapy Introductory & Advanced Training Courses, featuring UK Osteopath Geoffrey Montague-Smith DO. Hosted by Dr. Lisa Polinsky ND, this is a two or three day practical workshop to explore the use of sound for assessment and healing. The intro course will be on September 26 and 27 and the advanced course will be on September 28, 2026. For more information, email Circle Integrative Wellness at admin@circleintegrative.com or phone +1 250 590 7809.

October 2 to 4 – The 2026 Reclaiming Alberta Conference, presented by WE UNITY. This is WE UNIFY’s fifth Annual Conference which will be hosted in Calgary, Alberta. At this timely conference, WE UNIFY will be assembling a coalition of leaders from digital platforms, media, academia, government and civil society to discuss creating greater resilience within individuals and families to prevent the decline of Western Civilization. Presenters currently include, Chris Scott, Drea Humphrey, Ben Trudeau, Dr. Charles Hoffe, Matthew Ehret and our good friend Ted Kuntz. For more information and ticket details visit the website at: https://www.weunify.ca/

If you are hosting any training courses or know of any courses, or relevant meetings and events that you think our Canada Health Alliance members should be aware of and would like to attend, please email the details to info@canadahealthalliance.org. And please email us sufficiently early so that we have enough time to get them into the next edition of this newsletter.

DISCLAIMER: Canada Health Alliance is not responsible for the content of this newsletter and makes no medical claims, statements or assertions based any of the content which is often provided by third-party contributors. It is presented purely for information purposes and should not be taken as medical, nutritional or legal advice. Canada Health Alliance nor any of its representatives have any responsibility or liability for any content, statements, implications, actions or consequences that may arise as a result of this publication. We encourage everyone to do their own research and make their own conclusions and decisions about what is right for them and their personal circumstances.

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