Herbs do not work in the body the way that you think they do. Beyond St. John's Wort and grapefruit juice, the interactions of herbs with drugs are unpredictable and usually minimal. This is the bottom line of what I heard from Jonathan Treasure this past weekend at...
I have heard so many patients declare that since their neck hurts, they must have slept wrong. Or that they need a new pillow. So they get a new pillow and it is a little better for a while. My question is: How could sleeping in a certain position cause neck pain...
Did your pain start with an injury? Yes, pain with injury is part of the process. Did the pain remain beyond the time it was a useful signal? In order to understand when an injury should stop hurting, let’s look at the steps your body went through to heal from an...
Use IT, don't let IT use you We are surrounded by and often very dependent on the technology that surrounds us. But that technology is not Nature, it is not naturally occurring. Technology has been constructed with an agenda: to believe things, spend our...
Verde Canyon Railroad The train station Near the station The Verde River Black Mountain Basalt Cliff walls Mingus Mountain Don the Guide Train heads over the Trestle Bridge Black mountain visible on a curve The Verde River reflecting the blue sky Red Sandstone with...
Homeopathy: Medical Art or Pseudoscience? If your go-to for information is the internet, then Wickipedia might convince you that homeopathy is a pseudoscience, can’t possibly work and in fact doesn’t work. My work and training using Homeopathy as a medical treatment...
January is Thyroid Awareness Month Another year, and it has come around again. It's January. Thyroid awareness month. Although I have written about thyroid symptoms, thyroid medications, when to take thyroid meds when testing, Hashimoto's diet...
Have a lot of Pillows “Have a lot of pillows” What does that mean? What kind of wisdom could that possibly be? I heard an interview on Morning Edition on National Public Radio (npr) with DJ Khaled, speaker and author of “The Keys.” He explains that he comes up with...
Happy Holidays This time of year, do you celebrate holidays? From November through January, there are at least 30 holidays that are celebrated by world religions. Not to mention the characteristically American holiday of Thanksgiving. In 2016, the Christian...
2016 Holiday Treats Even before I was running the Bakery at Arcosanti, I loved to experiment with baking recipes. Now I avoid fad ingredients, but still promote gluten-free. This post will include a converted recipe for Pecan Puffs from when I worked at the Bakery at...
