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Magnets, Worms and Bacteria

The Worms Turn The year was 1936 and a young man, in-between that high school and college stage of life, was planning a little fishing expedition on his summer vacation. To fish you need worms, and all the worms were ready to go. Three cardboard boxes held the horde. It …

Organized Chaos

The chaos we see around us every day is not arbitrary chaos. It is organized chaos. It results from the fact that almost no one wants to take responsibility for their own lives and for the larger life of the planet and the biosphere. Therefore, those whose desire is to …

What Soil and Soil Diversity?

Soil. It’s our greatest treasure. It can take hundreds of years and many natural processes to make even a centimetre of soil. The mechanical and chemical weathering of rock makes up around half of any soil’s composition, with around 5% supplied by organic material, and the rest made up by …

Live Blood – Rouleau Marker How to Treat

Oxygen and Oxygenation Many live blood samples I see show the marker “rouleau” which means “stacked coin” in French.   The red blood cells literally stack up like coins.    While this marker is better than having Red Blood Cell Aggregation, it still is concerning and I call this “sticky blood” …

Going Banana! Are They Doomed?

Is your favourite fruit about to go extinct? The deadly disease pathogen Fusarium wilt TR4 (previously referred to as Panama Disease) has been wreaking havoc and ravaging the $25 billion global banana industry – with infected plantations experiencing 100% loss and being quarantined for decades.  Colombia has already declared a National State of Emergency, …

What Are Viruses?

Viruses, or “Filterable Bacteria” before the 1960s because they were up to a thousand times smaller than bacteria, have been given a bad rap ever since Pasteur’s “Germ Theory” became the accepted thought over Bechamp’s “Terrain Theory” for the cause of all disease. BeChamp discovered the true reason that viruses …

Grass Is Great

I went on a mission to learn the best method for growing a beautiful lawn naturally. I took it back to the historical roots, learned the reasons we are obsessed with it and then saw grass from an ecological standpoint. Grass is an amazing and super beneficial edible and medicinal …

Analysis of Candida Albicans as a Fungus

Candida Albicans is a type of fungus. Fungi possess a property that is strange when compared to all other micro-organisms: the ability to have a basic microscopic structure (the fiber-like hypha) with a simultaneous tendency to grow to remarkable dimensions (up to several kilograms), keeping unchanged the capacity to adapt …

Posca – The Commoners Drink of Medicine

The plebeians and the army drank the posca, a drink despised by the upper class. The posca was made from acetum which was a low quality wine that almost tasted like vinegar. Sometimes wine that got spoiled (because it was not properly stored) would also be used to make this …