Boosting Your Health Naturally So many people rush to pills or vitamin and mineral supplements to cure what ails them. Unfortunately, this is the nature of our society, a development of living a life cut off from our food and its sources. Instead of looking for a cure in a pill, whenever possible, I encourage [...]
I have been writing about bisphenol-a (BPA) for years. BPA is everywhere and in everything… well, nearly everything. There are few easy ways to avoid it: Don’t buy drinks sold in plastic bottles Don’t buy canned goods unless marked BPA-free Don’t use plastic tupperware / storage containers Don’t get take-out in plastic or plastic-coated containers [...]
We are living in a time when our soil has been depleted of healthy nutrients and saturated with petrochemical fertilizers, weed killers, and GMO crops. We are living in a time like that of Li Dong-yuan, founder of the Spleen-Stomach School of Chinese medicine; time when we are exposed to all sorts of unnatural things [...]
I was a Ritalin® kid. The drug had come onto the market right around the time I was getting to the part of elementary school where I needed to be sitting down instead of running around. I do not recall if the Ritalin® helped me concentrate or not, but I do remember Ritalin® making me [...]
To anyone who knows me, and likely to the regular readers of this blog, I urge everyone to reduce their toxic exposures. What we experience out in the world, what our jobs bring us in contact with, is not as easy to control as what you bring into your home. It is very easy to [...]
I do not have a whole lot to say about this; it is pretty self-explanatory. “Exposure during pregnancy to flame retardant chemicals commonly found in the home is linked to lower birthweight babies.” I just want you to read it, and keep it in mind. PBDEs are dangerous. We have to remember that everything a [...]
