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The Health Impact News network is owned by Sophia Media, LLC, which is owned by me, Brian Shilhavy.

I started Health Impact News in January of 2011. It was originally the HealthImpactNews.com website, and included two legacy websites that I owned, CoconutOil.com, and Created4Health.org.

The origins of CoconutOil.com go back to 2001, which was then Coconut-info.com, and started when my family and I were living in the Philippines, where we started Tropical Traditions, Inc. (Today it is Healthy Traditions, Inc.)

We were the first ones to import a “Virgin Coconut Oil” from the Philippines to the United States back in 2001, combating USDA dietary nutrition advice that condemned coconut oil as “unhealthy” due to its high saturated fat content. Not a single retail grocery chain store carried coconut oil as a dietary oil back then.

The sale of Virgin Coconut Oil quickly accelerated in the United States due to its tremendous health benefits, and I began to publish links to peer-reviewed literature showing how coconut oil had a unique fatty acid composition, particularly with lauric acid and its proven ability to destroy pathogens.

Much of the early research was based on the work of Dr. Mary Enig, Phd., and living in a rural area of the Philippines for several years proved to me that people who eat a high saturated fat diet, especially with coconut oil, were much healthier than those in the U.S. following a low-fat diet philosophy.

As the Tropical Traditions customers began to share their testimonials about how Virgin Coconut Oil was changing their lives in so many ways, they were published on the Tropical Traditions website.

In 2005, however, the FDA issued a warning letter against Tropical Traditions, claiming that we were selling “unapproved drugs” since the FDA had not approved any of the health claims people were making in their testimonials, even when backed up by peer-reviewed literature published on the NIH website from the medical literature.

Faced with possible arrest and the seizure of all of our inventory by U.S. Marshalls, I hired a regulatory attorney in Washington D.C. to help navigate through the FDA rules, and was forced to take all testimonials and articles based on peer-reviewed literature off of the Tropical Traditions website.

Those are all published now on CoconutOil.com, which sells no products, and that really was the genesis of what became Health Impact News.

Created4Health.org was started around 2007, explaining real health from a biblical, non-Darwinian perspective.

Shortly after HealthImpactNews.com was launched in 2011, VaccineImpact.com was added to the Health Impact News network, around the end of 2011 or beginning of 2012.

There was a growing body of research and knowledge combating the misinformation about vaccines that was routinely censored in the corporate media, and some of the main names back then were Barbara Loe Fisher, founder and head of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO, Dr. Suzanne Humphries, MD, and Dr. Brian Hooker, PhD.

To be fair, this is the background on the source cited in this OP. Drs Humphries and Hooker are ideologically antivaccionation advocates, and particularly Dr. Tenpenny is capitalizing quickly on her political opinions by charging hundreds of dollars per individual to attend her seminar. All three report data that is at best questionable against the body of widely accepted data and literature.

I include this directly from the website so that people may evaluate the veracity of the data and its origins for themselves.

“ In 2005, however, the FDA issued a warning letter against Tropical Traditions, claiming that we were selling “unapproved drugs” since the FDA had not approved any of the health claims people were making in their testimonials, even when backed up by peer-reviewed literature published on the NIH website from the medical literature.”

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I almost wet me knickers!

Here we have a company that got into trouble and the owner threaten with arrest for selling a product that is Unapproved by the FDA…………

While the same web-site/people are complaining about an Unapproved Vaccine by the FDA!!

This is Hilarious!! 😂🤣😆🤣😂🤪