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Oatmeal Porridge
Soaked / Lightly Fermented is the best way to prepare grains. For digestibility, assimilation and nutritional benefit, grains (including breakfast porridge) should be soaked overnight or longer. With this method, the oats are set up to soak in acidified water for 8 –...
Standing on Steady Ground: Resisting New Ideas
Most people will find certainty and safety by subscribing to widely held ideas, regardless of the "truth" of those ideas. Likewise, institutions and the people that are governed by them resist new explanations for phenomena. A classic example of this is found in the...
Letting Patients Down
No one goes through medical training so they can disappoint people with lousy outcomes and grievous errors in performing dangerous procedures. Yet, this is happening as a regular course of business in American Medicine. In my post, The Cost of Too Much Spinach, we...
The Cost of Too Much Spinach
In the July-August issue of Well Being Journal, Scott Miners1 shared the story of a teenager who went through a series of expensive diagnostic tests and unnecessary surgery. She had extreme pain and difficulty urinating. Four MRIs, 2 CT scans, and x-rays failed to...