Hello, and thank you for visiting my site!
My name is Robert Rister. I’ve been writing about natural health and natural lifestyle for 20 years. I’m not a doctor myself, although a book I co-authored about the rational use of herbal medicine has been cited as authority in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal Medicine, and the Archives of Internal Medicine. It was reported as a breakthrough in natural medicine in cover stories (back when the magazines we read had covers) in Newsweek, Time, and US News and World Report. I’ve formulated cosmetics and nutritional supplements and been a guest on 300 call-in radio shows. I’ve also written three more print books of my own, including a 753-page guide to natural medicine entitled Healing without Medication.
Forbes magazine called my book a “conservative” publication, because I don’t pull any punches. There are about 160,000 copies of Healing without Medication in print. I didn’t really intend it as a guide to “alternative medicine.” I’m not someone who believes there is an alternative to medicine. If you need a doctor’s treatment, my book is not going to be a substitute for you. But it can certainly help you find the questions for which your doctors have the answers.
My goal is to provide timely, helpful, and reliable information about specific nutritional supplements, the rational use of supplements for specific health conditions, and how that all ties in with healthy food and diets. I take the peer-reviewed science literature seriously, but I also believe that personal experience is valid. I take care to note the difference. I’ll also include natural health news on those occasions I happen to have a scoop or maybe when there is just something interesting to share. I’ll also be using this site to update the hundreds of health-related topics I covered in Healing without Medication.
One word about advertising. Some products are notoriously difficult to find. I’ve posted some links to Amazon and other retailers in case you can’t find them. But please come back whether you buy anything through these links or not.
Thank you for visiting my site. Please come back often. Feel free to leave comments and questions. And until we meet again, I wish you the best of health!