A new healing series….
Enough about food for now. Have you ever wondered how your body heals? I started thinking about an article on how bones heal and got so excited that I have decided to expand to include skin, muscle,...
View ArticleIntroduction to healing…nutrition
The fact that we are not a patchwork of seeping wounds, gaping holes and that we do not bleed out from a stubbed toe comes back to healing. I am going to cover the healing process in a number of...
View ArticleHealing Series #1 – Healing Scrapes
You are out walking and you get scraped by a branch. You feel it and when you look you can see that the skin is just slightly torn and rough. In a couple of spots you can see blood oozing to the...
View ArticleHealing Series #2 – Deep Wounds
You are chopping onions and your knife slips a bit and you cut your finger tip. As fingers, with there plentiful supply of blood, are prone to, it bleeds, a lot. You put some pressure on the wound,...
View ArticleA healing sidebar – Inflammation
I want to elaborate on an important process that is essential to healing in the human body – inflammation. As I have moved further into my healing series I realized that it would be beneficial to take...
View ArticleHealing Series #4 – Sprains
I was trying to stop my toddler from running about the parking lot while coaxing my slightly lame dog into the back of the minivan. In frustration, I bent forward, wrapped my arms around the dog’s...
View ArticleHealing Series #5 – fractures
Have you ever broken a bone? Felt something go crunch and known that there were things moving against each other inside you that shouldn’t be? Did you have the trip to the emergency room, the...
View ArticleAntibiotic Resistance…why should we care?
I know that I am always happy, intellectually, to have my doctor seriously look at my symptoms and bring up their own knowledge of what bugs are circulating (“…we are seeing a lot of viral infections...
View ArticleSome gutsy learning
vis·cer·al adjective of, or relating to, the viscera relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect synonyms: instinctive, instinctual, gut, deep-down, deep-seated, deep-rooted, inward...
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