Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
I often see what I recognize as uric acid crystals when I am looking at live blood under the microscope. Sometimes there are only a few, and other times there are many scattered throughout the plasma. It is something I have seen often enough over the years that I recognize …
A Lesson from the Magical Forest Experience I was chatting with a friend this morning about the years I lived in the Magical Forest at Chiruisco. That happened after I first moved to Ecuador. As we talked, memories I hadn’t visited in years came flooding back. I could see the …
Every meal sets in motion a carefully coordinated process involving the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, intestines, microbiome, and the production, storage, release, and transformation of bile. The liver produces much of the cholesterol the body needs by assembling it from nutrients and smaller compounds created during the metabolism of fats, carbohydrates, …
I am now offering Dried Blood Analysis at Living Ground. After completing my new teaching manual, I felt inspired to bring this work forward and begin offering consultations by appointment. I have never really promoted my blood analysis work. I have simply allowed the energy around it to happen. People …
I have finished a book that has been growing through my work for a long time. Dried Blood Analysis: A Practical Guide to Understanding Health Through Patterns came from my belief that this is another special tool people can learn to use to understand what is going on within their …
What if I told you that your brain isn’t the only brain making decisions inside your body? It sounds impossible, yet hidden within the walls of your digestive tract is an intricate nervous system that is constantly gathering information, making adjustments, and communicating with your brain. Add trillions of microorganisms, …
One of the things I enjoy most about working with clients is that every person teaches me something new. Each case encourages me to ask more questions, read more research, and continue learning. I have never believed that we know everything there is to know about the human body. In …
Just a little muse! Have you used GPS, Google Maps, or even Google Search? AI has been quietly helping us for years. The difference now is that it is no longer only helping us find information or navigate a route. It is beginning to think for us, write for us, …
After months of thinking, planning, tasting, cooking, and more than a little rearranging, we are excited to finally share our new Living Ground menu. This isn’t simply a new list of meals. It is a completely different way to experience food at Living Ground. Instead of choosing from a list …
There has been something on my mind for quite a while now. It isn’t really about resilience, although that is where it began. It is about the way we think and how easily we accept certain ideas as truth simply because we have heard them our entire lives. I have …