Explores the gut microbiome's critical role in health, emphasizing its influence on metabolism, disease resistance, and systemic health, advocating for a balanced diet, prebiotics, and probiotics to maintain a healthy microbiome, linking it to improved overall well-being and reduced disease symptoms.
Author - Brian
This is a very nice website dedicated to informing a general audience about the "Tree Of Life".
discusses adrenal fatigue as a modern condition stemming from chronic stress, contrasting with our ancestors' short-term stress responses. He advises cautious supplementation and Hair Trace Mineral Analysis (HTMA) to identify and address adrenal fatigue without exacerbating biochemical imbalances
Here is an interesting poster put out by Mt Saini Hospital on Headaches. It is interesting to note that they are now acknowledging that Manual Therapy manipulations are effective at managing headaches. However, the way Touch Therapy is presented, it seems almost as likely that manipulations will increase as well as decrease headache pain. Another...
The controversy about whether the bones of the skull move relative to each other has absorbed more hours of discussion in the lives of Cranial Therapists than perhaps any other subject. From the perspective of Allopaths (standard American medical doctors) the bones of the skull fuse fully by the age of 25. What this means is that any therapy based...
We human beings like to think that we control our bodies, that as we command our bodies to do something, it is our sense of ourselves that acts. When we think, “Pick up that cup and drink from it”, it is our conscious sense of self, our “I”, that makes our bodies execute the sequential responses involved in drinking from a...
Four-legged animals have it easy. As they walk along, their ribs hang off of their spine like clothes on a clothesline, the weight of their torso helping to stretch out the joints and ligaments of their spines. Even our ape-like ancestors, who spent much of their days hanging from branches, had plenty of opportunities to stretch out their backs...
When our automatic reflexes are working well, we rarely even notice. These extremely fast reactions happen much quicker than would be possible if we had to think through the best option for that circumstance, making reflexes incredibly useful for taking care of basic tasks. Examples include keeping us balanced on our feet while we walk, breathing...
I have made something of a hobby trying to find out where the cell phone towers that surround me are. This is more of a challenge than it may initially appear, as they are often cleverly disguised. This post documents some of the more interesting ones I have discovered in the San Francisco Bay Area and other places. If you would like to send...
Should we, or should we not vaccinate our kids? Even getting the flu shot is controversial. In working with Autistic children and kids with other challenges, time and again I run into parents who point to the time when they began to notice their kids having challenges, even regressing, soon after being vaccinated. These parents present a...