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Nicotine Unveiled: A Misunderstood Molecule Demonized by Big Pharma

https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-02-23-nicotine-unveiled-misunderstood-molecule-demonized-big-pharma.

Nicotine Unveiled: A misunderstood molecule demonized by Big Pharma

02/23/2026 // Ramon Tomey
  • According to the book “Nicotine Unveiled: The Hidden Healer in a World of Toxins,” nicotine has been wrongly demonized as the primary harmful component of tobacco, when in reality, the true dangers come from synthetic additives (like pyrazines) and toxic chemicals in cigarettes – not nicotine itself. Indigenous cultures historically used pure tobacco medicinally for focus, pain relief and spiritual purposes

 

  • Found in common foods like eggplants, tomatoes, potatoes and cauliflower, nicotine is a plant alkaloid that acts as a natural pesticide. In small, food-based doses, it enhances immunity, boosts cognition and reduces inflammation – debunking the FDA’s exaggerated claims about its addictiveness and toxicity.

 

  • The FDA mandates nicotine warnings on tobacco but ignores its presence in everyday foods, exposing regulatory bias. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies profit from smoking cessation drugs (like Chantix) while suppressing research into nicotine’s therapeutic benefits for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and COVID-related sensory loss.

 

  • Studies show nicotine (via patches/gum) improves memory, focus and cognitive function in healthy individuals and neurodegenerative patients. However, military and pharmaceutical interests prioritize nicotinic antagonists (used in chemical weapons) over agonists that activate beneficial cell receptors, deliberately obscuring nicotine’s medical value.

 

  • The stigma around nicotine is a manufactured narrative to protect corporate and military agendas. Despite suppression, independent research reveals nicotine’s promise in treating ulcerative colitis, schizophrenia and long COVID – proving it’s not the enemy, but rather a maligned nutrient weaponized by those profiting from public fear and sickness.

“Nicotine Unveiled: The Hidden Healer in a World of Toxins” centers on the eponymous natural molecule, one of the most misunderstood in modern medicine.

Nicotine in its natural form, consumed in the tiny amounts found in food, isn’t addictive. The addiction narrative is a smokescreen to protect the real culprits: the pharmaceutical industry and the regulatory agencies that serve it.  (See link for article & important video interview)

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**Comment**

Enhancing immunity, boosting cognition, and reducing inflammation should be on everyone’s ‘to do’ list, but never more so than for Lyme/MSIDS patients.

Regarding nicotine, we’ve been lied to.  Big time.

The interview in the top link is with Dr. Bryan Ardis, a widely known nicotine proponent, as well as with Dr. Ben Fuchs (pharmacy).  Fuchs’ expertise is with utilizing nutrients for disease states.  He states that molecularly, nicotine is very similar to vitamin B3 (niacin or nicotinic acid), one of the most important vitamins in the human body.  It’s so important that if the body is deficient in it, it will create it, unlike any other vitamin.

Fuchs discusses Abram Hoffer’s work using B3 to treat schizophrenia, mental health issues, skin problems, dementia, digestive issues, and many more diseases and conditions including arthritis.

Nicotine also activates acetylcholine receptors that play a crucial role in transmitting signals between nerve cells in the central and peripheral nervous systems.  It helps muscles contract and acetylcholine imbalances are believed to play a role in Parkinson’s.

PharmacistBen.com 

 

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diet and nutrition, Supplements

ACTION: No Immunity for Glyphosate Act

https://organicconsumers.org/organic-bytes-newsletter-931-protect-life-on-earth-pass-the-no-immunity-for-glyphosate-act/

BILLIONS AGAINST BAYER

Pass the No Immunity for Glyphosate Act

In a surprise move, President Donald Trump has given Bayer legal immunity for Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer under the Defense Production Act.

Trump’s Executive Order, “Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides,” directs the Department of Agriculture to contract with Bayer to mine more phosphorus and make more glyphosate.

Under the Defense Production Act, Bayer cannot “be held liable for damages or penalties for any act … resulting … from compliance with a rule … issued pursuant to” the Act, even if “such rule … shall thereafter be declared … to be invalid.” That means, as long as the Department of Agriculture makes the rules for phosphorus mining and glyphosate production under the Defense Production Act per Trump’s Executive Order, Bayer can’t be held liable for anything it does to comply with them.

If the Department of Agriculture orders Bayer to soak every acre of farmland in the country with glyphosate and everyone exposed dies of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Bayer is off the hook, even if the courts eventually decide the Department of Agriculture had no right to do that.

To undo Trump’s horrible Executive Order, Congressman Thomas Massie has introduced the “No Immunity for Glyphosate Act.” 

Go here for U.S. Right to Know’s article: Tracing Bayer’s Ties to Power in Trump’s Washington.

In 2025, Bayer spent at least $9.19 Million on lobbying and retained at least 13 lobby firms and at least 49 registered lobbyists registered to lobby for the company (including Bayer’s six in-house lobbyists) as of the fourth quarter, federal disclosures show. The agribusiness sector  ranked ninth with $219.9 million in lobbying expenditures in 2025 – the highest year on record for the sector.  The sector total matters because Bayer’s influence is amplified by an integrated industrial agribusiness system that acts in concert – from pesticide-dependent commodity crops to factory farms and ultra-processed food production – to shape policy in its favor.

Go here to contact your reps:   https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/93173/action/1

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Lyme/MSIDS patients often must eliminate many things from their diet to achieve health.  This has certainly been the case for me.  I can no longer eat wheat – but it isn’t the wheat/gluten that’s the problem – it’s the glyphosate.  How do I know this?  I am able to eat GMO free wheat products.

It’s important to know; however, that the organic certification does not guarantee the complete absence of glyphosate due to the fact there is environmental contamination, drift from conventional farms, and contaminated water sources.

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Jimmy Dore Show

2/26

Jimmy interviews Moms Across America’s Zen Honeycutt about a recent Donald Trump executive order and proposed Farm Bill language related to glyphosate and pesticide regulation. Despite campaign promises about reducing toxins and addressing chronic illness, the President’s actions demonstrate that the Trump administration is favoring agribusiness interests and could shield pesticide manufacturers from liability while limiting state and local authority.

The two discuss evidence demonstrating that glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer and other health harms and criticize regulatory agencies and corporate influence in Washington. The segment frames the issue as a betrayal of MAHA voters and urges grassroots activism to oppose the legislation.

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The House Floor: Thomas Massie

Massie rips the DOJ a new one over the lack of investigation and arrests after the revelation of the Epstein Files and at about 3:30 goes into how the entire government (federal and state) is under siege by lobbyists & lawyers from a German company named Bayer.  He points out the reason it’s under ‘national defense priority‘ is to protect them from any liability to damages caused by their chemicals.  Bayer bought Monsanto in 2018 for About $63 Billion – the company making Round Up which is glyphosate-based herbicide.

 

 

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Activism, diet and nutrition

ACTION: Support Real GRAS Reform

https://anh-usa.org/action-center/  Go here to send message to reps

Action Alert: Support Real GRAS Reform

Alliance for Natural Health

Earlier this year, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary touted “GRAS reform” among his first 100 day accomplishments, saying the agency is “exploring rulemaking” to “stop industry’s long-standing practice of introducing ingredients into the food supply without FDA knowledge or oversight.” The practice Commissioner Makary is referring to is known as self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) or self-GRAS.

THE TOPLINE

  • Proposed changes to the FDA’s GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) rules—backed by RFK Jr.’s push to clean up junk and ultra-processed foods—could create a sweeping pre-approval system that threatens access to thousands of safe, natural supplement ingredients.
  • While reform is needed to curb harmful additives, past FDA decisions show the agency has approved questionable synthetic ingredients—raising concerns that new authority could unfairly target natural products instead.
  • This is a pivotal moment for health freedom: without public pushback, regulatory overreach could restrict supplement access under the guise of food safety reform.

It’s true that the GRAS system is deeply flawed. It’s also true that many, if not all, of the problematic ingredients in the food supply that are often cited by critics as evidence of the need for GRAS reform were explicitly approved by the FDA—not snuck in by industry under self-GRAS. The solution isn’t to eliminate the self-affirmed GRAS pathway. It’s to bring it into the light, as we argued in our white paper released in April of this year that outlined a rational approach to reforming GRAS without erecting unnecessary regulatory hurdles for ingredients that have a well-established safety record.

Help us restore integrity to the entire system that governs what we eat. Write to Congress and the FDA calling for rational reforms to the GRAS process without eliminating the self-GRAS pathway.

 

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Activism, diet and nutrition, Supplements

ACTION: Block & Repeal Food Libel & Ag-Gag Laws

https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/94199/action/1?  Go here to take action

Protect Food and Environmental Activists’ Right to Free Speech! Block & Repeal Food Libel & Ag-Gag Laws!

“Food Libel” and “Ag-Gag” laws are the corporations’ attempt to keep us from knowing where our food comes from and how it’s produced.

Food Libel laws let corporations take their critics to court, while Ag-Gag laws criminalize investigations into animal abuse at factory farms.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Your State Legislators to Protect Food and Environmental Activists’ Right to Free Speech! Block and Repeal Food Libel and Ag-Gag Laws!

In an alarming move, Florida is considering expanding its food libel law with a provision to broaden “food disparagement” restrictions. A victory for free speech was won last week when the Senate dropped the issue, but a House bill still includes it.

While Florida’s current law is limited to perishable food products like fruits and vegetables, the proposed changes seek to broaden the scope in two major ways:

  • The removal of “Perishable”—This expansion would include all agricultural products.
  • And addition of “Farm Practices”—The provision explicitly adds agricultural practices, such as fertilizer use and pesticide application.

This would allow powerful agricultural corporations like Bayer and Corteva to use a new legal weapon to target those who speak out publicly about farming practices, including pesticides, water pollution, and harmful health effects.

This expansion would heavily prioritize industry interests, making it perilous for individuals, organizations, and farmers to speak up about harmful practices and undermine efforts to create a safer, more transparent food system nationwide.

In a frightening example of how food libel laws like Florida’s can be misused, Apeel is currently using it to sue Robyn Openshaw, the Green Smoothie Girl, for her campaign to educate consumers about how to avoid its “edible” fruit and vegetable coating.

We need to act now!

If passed, Florida’s expanded food libel law would set a dangerous precedent, stifling free speech and silencing environmental and health advocates, while creating a food system that prioritizes industry interests over public health and safety.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Your State Legislators to Protect Food and Environmental Activists’ Right to Free Speech! Block and Repeal Food Libel and Ag-Gag Laws!

(Go to top link to take action)

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Activism, diet and nutrition

Reduce Cancer Risk by 90% Using Evidence-Based Natural Compounds

This protocol was derived by the author’s personal experience, which is often how we move forward in health.  It’s amazing what you can find when you are desperate for yourself or your loved ones.  This is certainly true in Lymeland. The sick and infected are the ones who find answers.

https://justusrhope.substack.com/p/how-to-reduce-cancer-risk-by-90-using?

How to Reduce Cancer Risk by 90% Using Evidence-Based Natural Compounds

The Most Practical ROOT™ Protocol Solution in the Modern Era

Justus R. Hope
Jan 12, 2026
Article Excerpts:

This is the first time a 90% cancer prevention threshold has been achieved using six or fewer readily available, over-the-counter agents—making it both scientifically sound and practically achievable for the majority of people.

The author then traces hidden sources of carcinogens that drive cancer:

  • processed meat at 3 daily servings elevates colorectal cancer risk to levels comparable to heavy smoking
  • sugar-sweetened beverages create a metabolic environment that systematically promotes cancer growth
  • advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) caused by high temperature cooking, food additives and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) operate as independent carcinogens multiplying cancer risk beyond sugar and processed ingredients alone, driving chronic inflammation, promoting tumor cell growth and immune evasion and creating hypoxic conditions
  • fast food
  • synergistic combination of the 4 carcinogens listed above creates catastrophic AGE accumulation – a continuous state of cellular damage and malignant transformation
By eliminating the carcinogen listed and adopting Mediterranean-style eating, overall cancer is reduced 50-66% across multiple cancers – which rivals or exceeds pharmaceutical interventions.

Dosage Protocol: Nine Agents Daily

  1. Vitamin D3: 1000-2000 IU
  2. Curcumin: 500-1000 mg + piperine
  3. EGCG: 400-800 mg
  4. Omega-3 (EPA/DHA): 1000-2000 mg (500-1000 mg for prostate)
  5. Aged Garlic Extract: 2.4 mL daily OR 600-900 mg standardized extract
  6. Sulforaphane: 40-60 mg daily (2 tablespoons fresh broccoli sprouts OR supplement)
  7. Berberine: 900-1500 mg daily (300-500 mg three times daily before meals
  8. Monk Fruit Extract (Mogroside V): 150-250 mg mogrosides daily (as sweetener replacement)
  9. Stevia Extract (Stevioside): 750-1500 mg daily (250-500 mg three times as sweetener replacement)

All can be taken once daily with food. Excellent safety: No significant interactions. Minimal side effects.

To achieve even greater benefits, fast overnight 16 hours 2-3 days per week.
The author gives his routine implementation of the 9 ingredient protocol as well as this cost comparison:
  • Nine-supplement protocol: ~$80-120 per month (preventive intervention achieving 93% cancer risk reduction)​
  • Single chemotherapy cycle: $10,000-30,000 (palliative intervention with modest survival benefit)​

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Cancer, diet and nutrition, research, Supplements, Treatment