Red Rocks and Ancient History
Mind-blowing! Puts things in perspective like nothing else can! Hiking in the Verde Valley and Sedona, I wondered about the layers of rock I see around me and walk over. Doing some research, I found this wonderful explanatory video of the geology of the area. ...
Kathy Ireland explores Natural Action Water
Worldwide Business with kathy ireland® Explores the Health Benefits of Structured Water with Natural Action Technology Los Angeles, CA – August 14, 2018 — Worldwide Business with kathy ireland® is pleased to announce an exclusive interview with Natural Action...
Best Alternative Health 2018
Thank You! You - the readers of the Verde Valley Newspapers - have just voted me Readers' Choice Best Alternative Health Practitioner of 2018 in the Verde Valley! This is the sixth time since 2012 you have voted me this recognition. I appreciate it! I aim to help you...
8-9-98
8-9-98 is August 9, 1998. It is a palindrome: it reads the same forwards and backwards. It is the date of my graduation from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, AZ. This is the twentieth anniversary of that date! Twenty years ago, we...
The 1, 2, 3 of Medicine
Mainstream medicine has lost vital perspectives. It has collapsed its viewpoint to only that which is physical and can be observed and measured. The only accepted reality is the physical, and every other phenomenon attempts to be explained as being derived from the...
Evidence in Medicine
Naturopathic physicians individualize their treatments to their patients based on their training and how the patient presents. There is a contemporary doctrine in mainstream medicine of “Evidence-Based Medicine,” or EBM. This doctrine demands that medical treatments...
Reset your body and mind
BOWEN THERAPY by Sanja Tamburic, ND Mind-Body Connection and Pain Most patients and doctors look at the body as a sum of parts, where they aim to fix a particular part, just like a car engine. This mechanistic view that body and mind are separate currently permeates...
The Sweet Spot
Where is the sweet spot in life? Have you pondered that for your life? And, how do I get there? Or, are you there, in the sweet spot? On a tennis racket, the sweet spot is the place where you get the “most bang for your buck.” This means that the ball goes exactly...
Hiking Sedona in July
When hiking in July, I find it best to start early in the morning. Before sunrise. It is plenty light, then I get to see the sun illuminate the rock formations as it comes up. Starting on the Courthouse Butte trail, we see Courthouse Butte, of course, and also Bell...
Castor Oil in your Eye?
Was I surprised when I found research on a treatment that I had been recommending! I have told patients to put a drop of castor oil in each eye at bedtime to help with many conditions, dry eye being one of them. I have tried it too. I learned the use of castor...