Real-person accounts of non-mainstream health therapies. Since 2011.
In this 2001 UK Guardian article about a covered-up mass pesticide poisoning in Spain, the journalist asserts that the same thing was behind the 1989 deaths in the US attributed to tainted L-tryptophan supplements.
(Updated April 2023.) As mentioned in this February 2013 post, my sugar cravings have been extremely resistant to my nutritional-therapy tinkering.
As I mention on my page on chronic, undiagnosed illness, my estimate of how many Americans share my experience with inscrutable health issues has evolved over the years from maybe 10,000 to at least three million.
In 2017, I spent $1,400 for a subscription to a concierge doctor, one who charges extra to offer better access for her patients and has far fewer patients than the typical hospital system doctor.
(Updated April 2023. See also this post on eliminating bromine from my diet.) In 2017 I purchased one of those $200 memory-foam, squished-and-rolled-up mattresses that come in a box in the mail, from a company that rhymes with Linus.
(Updated 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.
(Updated April 2023.) 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.
It all started with The Spirit Molecule. (Updated April 2023.) 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.
(Updated April 2024.) Here’s a roundup of the vitamin and mineral supplements that have had the most dramatic effect on my various health annoyances.
(Updated April 2023.) 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.
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