Have you ever had a kidney stone? Very painful! I had a kidney stone exactly five days after giving birth to my first child. The pain was worse than childbirth. Even if you never had a kidney stone, this article is for you. Oxalates come from food and they can impact all parts of your […]
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I Stopped a Sinus Infection in its tracks!
It’s wintertime. I had a sore throat, cough, runny nose and maybe a low-grade fever. A cold was creeping up on me and I would have nothing of it! That is because I always get a sinus infection at the end of a cold. This has been happening for years. But I did something different […]
Growing My Own Food
I believe we could all be a little more self-sufficient. My grandparents had many skills when they lived in their rural community years ago. My Great-Grandfather plowed the field behind his house and planted potatoes. My brother still has a scythe that he used to mow hay! For me, it is too easy to go […]
If Viruses Aren’t Real Then why Do I Have a Cold?
I have a sore throat, cough, runny nose and maybe a low grade fever. Yikes I have a cold! I try really hard not to catch a cold, for various reasons (more on this below) but I caught one anyway. But if viruses aren’t real (which I explored in a previous post), then what do I have?? […]
Are Viruses Real? (The 23rd Annual Weston Price Foundation Conference)
In October of this year (2023) I attended the Weston Price Foundation conference in Kansas City, Missouri. It was my 12th conference. The Weston Price Conference is about “traditional diets” and learning about the way people ate and prepared foods before the early 1900s, before processed foods came on the scene. But it is also […]
The Gut Brain Connection -What I learned from food poisoning
Food poisoning is one of the worst things that can happen to you. I experienced it in May 2023. But I learned something from it. Shouldn’t we learn from the bad experiences as well as the good ones? Besides the obvious learnings such as “make sure you have adult pullups in your bathroom closet,” there […]