Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
What if our fear of parasites, and the cleanses it drives us to, is doing more harm than good? I believe it is. I believe the war we wage on the organisms inside us is stripping away the very microbes that protect us, and keeping our bodies in a state …
Imagine placing a single drop of your own blood on a slide and, within seconds, watching it come alive on the screen in front of you. Red blood cells drift and tumble through the plasma, white cells move about their work, platelets gather, and strands of fibrin, crystals and other …
“Conflictolysis: The Moment the Body Knows It Is Safe Do you ever find yourself suddenly triggered by something? A smell, a song, a familiar place. Sometimes these things bring back warm memories. Other times, they stir something deeper, something heavy. Those moments are trauma triggers, and they can arrive without …
What Urine and Live Blood Might Tell Us About How the Body Cleans Itself There is a place where the textbooks go quiet, and I have always been drawn to it. Medicine is very good at telling us what can be measured, yet traditions have been noticing things in the …
I have been working with Live Blood Analysis for a long time, and every person who sits in front of me adds another piece to what I understand. I do not just look at a marker, name it and move on. I look at the person who is presenting, their …
Magnesium is a funny mineral. It does not get the attention that calcium gets, and it certainly is not as glamorous as some of the supplements that come and go in popularity, yet quietly behind the scenes magnesium is involved in an extraordinary amount of what keeps us alive and …
Creating something like Living Ground Ecuador is not simply about having ideas. I have lots of ideas, probably far too many, but I can usually see the bigger picture very clearly. I think that is one of my gifts. I can look at a piece of land, a café, a …
Living Ground is opening its doors for small, hands-on workshops in southern Ecuador. Come learn Live and Dried Blood Analysis, Soil Food Web science, fermentation, herbal medicine, food as medicine and practical self-reliance, all within a working project where soil, microbes, plants, food and human health are deeply connected.
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 …
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, …