Despite the obviously unsanitary conditions here in Thailand, including open bamboo kitchens with flies, geckos, frogs, mosquitos and the occasional snake sitting next to your cornflakes box, people here seem to develop quite early a strong immunity that allows them to weather almost any illness that comes along and live well into their 80’s. What’s their secret?
Read MoreMy thoughts after 15 years, 13,000 clients, numerous therapists and supporting natural medicine in the Boston area.
Read MoreIf we accept responsibility for our body then we are accepting the fact that aside from an accident, anything that we experience in our body develops as the result of how we care for our body and our environment. And if you do accept responsibility, then why do accept that every illness, infection or symptom must be due to something outside of your control? Why would you accept a treatment that is designed to treat the body as a victim, rather than part of the cause?
Read MoreTruly, the greatest thing you can do for your future health is to know that when stress takes your hand, you need to reach out for some support for your immune system. Be the illness psychic and treat yourself before the symptoms begin.
Read MoreThere are many reasons why people eat, but really it's all about feeding. However, what we fail to pay attention to is exactly what we are feeding. The trick to health is to balance the reasons why you eat so that no one reason takes over.
Read MoreGeoengineering is the idea of manipulating the climate and weather for better or worse by concentrating on removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and/or managing solar radiation. Sounds good, right? Or is it?
Read MoreOften the point of balance in an ecosystem has to do with controls. When you introduce something new, often there are not any built-in controls for the new element, allowing the element to spread unchecked throughout the ecosystem. This can be beneficial or it can be very destructive whether the ecosystem is an environmental one or the inside of your body.
Read MoreThe idea of pain medication is to block the nervous system from either detecting or reacting to the challenge. Now the positive note is that by doing this, it allows you to relax more, to sleep more, to regain function more quickly. But is there a negative side?
Read MoreThe idea that we live with viruses for our entire lives is a fact. When you are exposed to a virus, any virus, it will always remain in your body at an untraceable level, ready to rise to the occasion any time your immune system is challenged or compromised.
Read MoreI began my Sudoku journey ... easy, then on to medium, then on to tricky, then on to challenging, etc. Now I have developed a habitual rhythm to solving them and actually find them very relaxing and stress-reducing. My point here is that practice really does make perfect, and not just with mindful time wasters. It also is true with your body.
Read MoreRecently I was having a discussion with my brother in law, who is quite a brain may I say, and he pointed out to me that in preparing his recent documentary film on traffic congestion in cities, he had realized that the more we have filtered the exhaust from cars, the more insidious and widespread allergies and other breathing disorders have become. Now I have to say that my immediate thought was "Are you crazy!", but then I got thinking and you know what, he's right.
Read MoreYou might be thinking that I'm speaking of war, where resistance often means death... or perhaps you think I mean in a test of strength, where resistance eventually leads to death. But in fact, I'm talking about our own bodies. One of the things I've noticed in my practice is that often I will give exactly the right thing, and yet the body does not respond. Why?
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