Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Articles exploring the microbial communities that live in and on the human body and the many ways food, environment, digestion and lifestyle influence them. This section also follows the connections between the human microbiome and the microbial life of soil.
Many systems in modern society are no longer built around creating healthy, independent, resilient human beings because independent people eventually stop feeding the system financially. Over time, systems drift toward dependency because dependency becomes extraordinarily profitable. What happens when entire industries quietly profit from keeping people stressed, searching, consuming, medicated, …
Today is Jim’s birthday. Happy heavenly birthday!!! I woke up with him on my mind in a way that feels close. I wish he was here everyday. Sure, there is a weight to this day, but there is also something steady and present that I carry inside me. After 5 …
What I keep coming back to lately is how much modern medicine resembles industrial agriculture. The parallels are becoming difficult for me to ignore. In both systems, something unwanted appears, spreads, or becomes destructive, and the response involves increasingly aggressive intervention. Companies develop stronger chemicals. Doctors prescribe more suppressive therapies. …
Understanding Leptin Resistance and Restoring the Metabolic Conversation For many people, losing weight feels like an endless battle. They eat less, exercise more, and try one diet after another, only to find themselves constantly hungry, craving food, and eventually gaining the weight back. After enough failed attempts, it becomes easy …
In live blood analysis, one of the first things I notice is that the body is never still. Even when someone feels tired, stuck, or unwell, their cells are working constantly. Energy is being produced every second. Metabolism never stops. And just like any engine, energy production leaves behind exhaust. …
This is about ancestral food, not as nostalgia, but as pattern recognition. It is also about the future Gratitude Meals we will offer at the Gratitude Cafe, meals that come from lived experience and are anchored in something deeply personal. This article will discuss my Healing Soup , but it …
There is a strange disconnect in the modern world that becomes impossible to ignore once you begin to follow anything back to its source. We speak about energy as if it comes from outlets, fuels, labels, or measured quantities in capsules and powders, yet none of that reflects where energy …
There is something essential missing from most of the food people are eating today, and it is not listed on any label. It is not a vitamin, not a mineral, not protein or fat. Those are all there, at least on paper. What is missing is the living layer that …
When I was around thirty, living in Canada, I felt something I couldn’t really explain. It wasn’t loud or dramatic; it was just a quiet pull that kept returning. I felt a steady urge to get out and get closer to something real. At that time, I had no skills. …