I just want to recommend the Townsend Letter to anyone who is interested in cutting edge health information. This article published in Jan 2015 is very timely. I have a lot of friends who have succumbed to this health fad, so it is really good to have a clear picture laid out for us as to exactly how our bodies deal with the oxalate acid that green smoothies are full of.
Internet news this past fall indicated the conviction of an oncologist who attempted to kill her boyfriend who was involved with another woman. The weapon of choice was ethylene glycol, popularly known as antifreeze, which had been placed in his coffee. Although emergency measures saved his life, extensive deposits of oxalate crystals, the main toxic metabolite of ethylene glycol, had caused extensive kidney and liver damage, reducing the man’s lifespan by about half.
My mother has been on a diet of microwaved food for the past 15 years or so. It isn't that the food is bad food to begin with. She has lovely meals made up for her with food bought from her local farmers markets. But when she comes home at night she use to heat it up in the microwave for dinner- ...
The ileocecal valve is often ignored in discussions of gut health and probiotics. The NorthShore Naturopathic Clinic recently had a good in depth article by Dr. Matsen on the ileocecal valve in their monthly newsletter. I have been struggling with pathological yeasts in my gut after living in an ...
Seven years ago we lived in a hellishly mouldy apartment in Wellington New Zealand and got infested with mould. Since then I always have an eye out for any articles about candida, moulds and probiotics. This is actually one of the most well written, concise, yet descriptive and in depth pieces a ...
Do we really want people controlled by parasitic micro-organisms controlling our world? Please be sure to watch the video at the end of this post before answering this question. More and more information is coming out about probiotics lately and the intimate symbiotic relationship formed between ...
We began the GAPS diet (or enhanced Specific Carbohydrate Diet) in February, so we have now been on it for more than six months. The difference is remarkable. I have sent in for another hair analysis so I can compare the result with the test I did last November. All of our conditions have not comple ...
Many people have been asking me how the GAPS Diet has been working out for us, and I am finally getting a chance to post about it. We started this diet because we have had serious re-occurring health problems ever since living in a moldy apartment in New Zealand. Our problems seemed to just get wors ...
Most of my life I have been excessively healthy. No cavities, never sick, and with rapid healing powers so that I have no scars despite the multitude of oven burns and other disasters that being a chef generally involve (I have chopped off the tip of my left pointer finger several times--but you wou ...
Hypoglycemia: A Better Approach By Dr. Paavo Airola (1977) I know you might be thinking "Why not choose something more up to date?" Dr. Paavo Airola was addressing a conditions that most other Doctors were ignoring or attacking, at that time. I found this book a very interesting read wi ...
