Real-person accounts of non-mainstream health therapies. Since 2011.
by guest author M.E. Editor’s note: I am actually the third generation of my family to believe that nutritional deficiencies play a major role in health problems and that anyone with knowledge of the scientific method can treat him/herself. Here our guest writer and 2nd-gen orthomolecular self-experimenter M.E. — aka Mom — presents a brief ...
(Originally posted December 2011) I wrote earlier of some unexpected side effects of correcting a deficiency, and here’s a new one: you learn a lot about Japanese culture. After I started researching iodine deficiency and decided to experiment with that, I was visited with cravings for sushi and Japanese movies. What with their seafood-laden diet, ...
(Via New Hope 360.) The Fall 2011 issue of the American Botanical Council’s HerbalGram features “A Brief History of Adulteration of Herbs, Spices, and Botanical Drugs,” an article covering intentional and unintentional alterations going back to ancient Greece. In ancient Athens, such mischief included adding flavorings to wine to make it taste like an older ...
Updated October 22, 2020. Originally posted November 19, 2011. Over the years I’ve learned that some of the nutrient supplements on the shelves in the US don’t work very well, either because a significant part of the population can’t process them, or because the version used is poorly absorbed by the body, or because they ...
I don’t usually cover the cellular-biology end of nutritional therapy because 1) who cares and 2) I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I came across this animation of how magnesium and calcium work together and was surprised to find it interesting. It helped cement my understanding of the minerals’ roles in the body.
Updated August 7, 2012: After reading Seth Roberts’ review of my blog, I realized that this post could use some clarifying and that Ancel Keys, author of the maligned Seven Countries study Dr. Lustig refers to, could use some equal air time. My edits are in bold. Raw Food SOS presents a closer look at ...
Over the years, I’ve used the ProPublica and the more recent Open Payments public databases to see if any doctors I’d visited had received money from pharmaceutical companies. The ProPublica and Open Payments databases I first learned about the ProPublica database from a 2011 post at Everything Matters (formerly Beyond Meds.) That database is no ...
(See my March 24, 2013 post for results of my experiments with GABA supplements.) According to this ScienceDaily article on a new study about tinnitus, when a hair cell is damaged or dies, the neurons usually receiving input from it keep firing anyway, even though there’s no data coming in. They “become more excitable and ...
Soon after I discovered that typical guidelines about iodine are outdated and wrong (1), I came across information about vitamin K that made me realize the amounts I had been experimenting with were pathetically small. Also, it is possible that vitamin D supplements affect vitamin K, which for me would explain a lot (2). This ...
Update July 2022: This problem improved a lot when I started doing vagus nerve stimulation exercises. I also noticed that on days following activity that involved lifting very heavy (for me) items, my breathing would be easier. About six years ago I realized I was getting very tired every time I visited a home with ...
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