February 2015 • Avoiding Rx

28Feb 2015 by Marjorie 4 Comments

Three months of reiki

(Last updated in April 2023.) More and more health writers and bloggers, including the Low-Histamine Chef and Donna Jackson Nakazawa, author of The Last Best Cure, have found stress reduction to play a big part in their health recovery. Read More Three months of reiki

28Feb 2015 by Marjorie No Comments

Happy trails, Seth Roberts

self-experiment

A farewell to author-blogger-self-experimenter extraordinaire Seth Roberts, who died in April 2014 at 61. Seth's review of my blog in December 2011 increased my traffic by about 19,000 percent. Read More Happy trails, Seth Roberts

27Feb 2015 by Marjorie No Comments

Fun with ancient psychoactives: blue lotus and African dream root

The Weird

It all started with The Spirit Molecule. My interest in the mind-bending end of self-experimentation started after reading about DMT, the active ingredient of the now-infamous ayahuasca brew, in Rick Strassman's The Spirit Molecule. Read More Fun with ancient psychoactives: blue lotus and African dream root

19Feb 2015 by Marjorie 4 Comments

All the pills I’ve loved before

nutritional therapy

Here's a roundup of the vitamin and mineral supplements that have had the most dramatic effect on my various health annoyances. Read More All the pills I’ve loved before

03Feb 2015 by Marjorie No Comments

Watch out for registered trademarks (®) in supplement ingredients

nutritional therapy

After a decade or so of experimenting with nutritional therapy, more and more supplements and foods began suppressing my breathing, which needless to say caused me some anxiety. Read More Watch out for registered trademarks (®) in supplement ingredients