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A library for curious minds.

Explore the educational material Dr. Smith asked to preserve, alongside his current nutrition and cellular-health perspective.

Older readings and videos are educational source material, not individualized treatment advice. Inclusion does not mean every historical claim reflects current evidence. Discuss questions with your healthcare professional.

Suggested readings.

The original practice reading list, preserved with source titles and attribution. These are historical selections, not prescriptions or endorsements of every claim.

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Pharmaceutical information and policy

Overdo$ed America

By John Abramson, MD

Source & link notes

Suggested Readings source label: ‘Book: Overdo$ed America Paperback Edition Available.’ Source includes Eric Schlosser’s endorsement: it describes the book as revealing greed and corruption said to drive health-care costs and threaten public health. Routine check returned HTTP 200.

Recorded destination: http://www.overdosedamerica.com/

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Pharmaceutical information and policy

Pharmageddon

By David Healy

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Suggested Readings calls it a ‘searing indictment’ of pharmaceuticalization and says Healy attributes problems to product patents, prescription-only classification, and industry-controlled trials. Source title/author/description link goes to Goodreads. An unlabelled source cover-image link, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270985, returned HTTP 404 and is intentionally preserved only in this note.

Recorded destination: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13268364-pharmageddon

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Education and society

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

By John Gatto

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Suggested Readings source says John Gatto taught 30 years in New York City public schools and was a New York State Teacher of the Year. Direct HTTPS upgrade from the source Amazon URL.

Recorded destination: https://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Schooling/dp/0865714487#_

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Environmental health and pollution

A Community Guide to Environmental Health

By Jeff Conant; Pam Fadem

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Suggested Readings describes a highly illustrated guide for health promoters, development workers, activists and community leaders; it lists 23 chapters, paperback/600 pages/$28, ISBN 978-0-942364-56-9. Legacy Hesperian URL returned HTTP 404. Replaced with the current official Hesperian page verified to list the same title, authors, ISBN and a 2012 second revised printing (617 pages).

Recorded destination: https://store.hesperian.org/products/a-community-guide-to-environmental-health

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Nutrition and food

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

By Eric Schlosser

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Suggested Readings calls it ‘What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World,’ gives Penguin Books Limited, Apr 4, 2002, 400 pages, and describes discussion of flavor labs, meatpacking safety, Hollywood/fast-food links, and marketing to younger consumers. Direct HTTPS upgrade.

Recorded destination: https://www.amazon.com/Fast-Food-Nation-Dark-All-American/dp/0060838582

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Nutrition and food

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills

By Russell L. Blaylock, MD

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Suggested Readings says it cites over 500 scientific studies and discusses aspartame, MSG and other food additives. This is preserved as source description, not independently evaluated. Direct HTTPS upgrade.

Recorded destination: https://www.amazon.com/Excitotoxins-The-Taste-That-Kills/dp/0929173252

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Safe cosmetics and environmental exposure

Slow Death by Rubber Duck

By Rick Smith; Bruce Lourie

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Suggested Readings calls it ‘provocative and groundbreaking’ and describes four-day self-experiments involving common suspected toxic exposures and before/after body-burden results. Original site was unreachable; no substitute selected.

Recorded destination: http://slowdeathbyrubberduck.com/USA/

Original destination unavailable. Retained for reference.

Link under review
Safe cosmetics and environmental exposure

More Than Genes: What Science Can Tell Us About Toxic Chemicals, Development, and the Risk to Our Children

By Dan Agin

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Suggested Readings describes claims about fetal environment, stress, nutrition, and toxic exposures. Direct HTTPS upgrade. Preserve wording as source copy rather than clinical guidance.

Recorded destination: https://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Genes-Chemicals-Development/dp/0195381505#_

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Environmental health and pollution

Silent Spring

By Rachel Carson

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Suggested Readings calls it an older starting point for environmental factors and summarizes its discussion of DDT, food chains and ‘A Fable for Tomorrow.’ Direct HTTPS upgrade.

Recorded destination: https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Spring-Rachel-Carson/dp/0618249060

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Pharmaceutical information and policy

Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies

By Greg Critser

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Suggested Readings says the book asks how prescription drugs became matters of entitlement and brand loyalties. Direct HTTPS upgrade.

Recorded destination: https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Rx-Prescription-Altering-American/dp/0618393137#_

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Nutrition and food

The Vitamin Cure for Alcoholism

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Suggested Readings gives no author or outbound URL. Source text claims addiction is primarily a metabolic disease and makes comparative treatment claims; retain only as attributed legacy book copy and subject any clinical statements to editorial/medical review.

No destination link was supplied on the original reading list.

Title preserved
Safe cosmetics and environmental exposure

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry

By Stacy Malkan

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Main resource page says Malkan co-founded the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and calls this an award-winning book about its research and advocacy efforts. Domain did not resolve during audit; original URL retained.

Recorded destination: http://notjustaprettyface.org/

Original destination unavailable. Retained for reference.

Link under review
Pharmaceutical information and policy

The Risks of Prescription Drugs

By Donald Light

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Main page link label: ‘Risk Proliferation Syndrome by Donald Light link about the book: The Risk of Perscription Drugs.’ Title normalized to the linked Columbia University Press destination; source misspelling preserved in this note. Direct redirect.

Recorded destination: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-risks-of-prescription-drugs/9780231146920/

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Nutrition and food

Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletion Handbook

By Ross Pelton, RPh, PhD, CCN

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Main resource page introduces an excerpt from this text and gives ISBN 1-930598-45-9. No outbound book URL appears on the source page. Source introduction and excerpt are preserved in the report transcript.

No destination link was supplied on the original reading list.

Title preserved

Unavailable or uncertain links remain in the migration checklist rather than disappearing from the library. Original resources page