The Internet is a wonderful tool to both find and distribute information. I use it every day to compile information to share with you. In addition, many of the stories I receive come from readers of the newsletter. See below.

The ratings changed yesterday, August 14, and as previously predicted, my web site passed Dr. Andrew Weil's site and is now the second most visited natural health site in the world.

Of all the medical journals in the world, only the British Medical Journal now has more traffic than this site. More people visit this site than the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and the Lancet.

You might find it interesting to see how the ratings have changed over the last four months.

One of the ways that one can objectively determine how much traffic a site receives is by the number of visitors to the site. This is only one criteria and is not necessarily associated with the quality of content at that site. However, it is one parameter that can be used to determine how others value the site.

The BEST way to inexpensively determine the traffic at a site is www.alexa.com. One needs to download their free software to your computer. The software then inserts a display window on your browser which actually shows you how the site you are visiting ranks among the over 50 million web sites in the world.

You may have to go deeper into the site to see the actual rating. For instance, on my home page the Alexa window says "Try Alexa 5.11 Beta Now" but as soon as you go into the site the window changes to Traffic *****Ranking #14,390.

One other helpful item you can consider doing if this web site has served you in the past is posting a comment on the Alexa toolbar about the site. You can do this by "double clicking" on the traffic rating in the Alexa window and then clicking on vote and write a review in the next screen that appears. There is one comment already there.

You Can Help Change This Medical Nightmare

Folks, I am on a mission and I am hoping you will join me on my mission. The traditional paradigm is contributing to enormous needless grief and suffering in this country, and throughout the world, through their lack of awareness of many simple health principles.

How can you help? By having as many people as possible sign up for this newsletter. I am convinced that the way we are going to transform the traditional paradigm is by educating the public. We are not going to do it by changing physicians.

What is the most effective way to get people to sign up for the newsletter? Copy one article that really moves you and send it to as many of your closest friends and family as you feel moved to along with a note encouraging them to sign up so they can learn more about how to stay healthy.

You Can Make A Difference

Later this year I plan on implementing an incredibly innovative community technology that will:

Allow you to have all your individual specific health questions answered by natural health experts.

The following is a rank order listing of all the natural health, NOT traditional medical, sites in the top 100,000 that I am aware of. This snapshot of the web was taken on August 29, 2001.

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