Stopping sugar cravings with essential oils
As mentioned in this February 2013 post, my sugar cravings have been extremely resistant to my nutritional-therapy tinkering.
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Call for essays: WTF is happening?
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.
My year with a concierge doctor
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.
The aftermath of bromine poisoning from a mattress
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.
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.
Happy trails, Seth Roberts
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.
Fun with ancient psychoactives: blue lotus and African dream root
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.
All the pills I’ve loved before
Here’s a roundup of the vitamin and mineral supplements that have had the most dramatic effect on my various health annoyances.
Watch out for registered trademarks (®) in supplement ingredients
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.
Tips on self-experimenting with nutritional therapy
1. Don’t worry about proving anything to anyone.
