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.
When I look at live blood under the microscope, the first thing that strikes me is that nothing is ever still. Someone can walk into my office exhausted, stuck, or feeling unwell, and their cells are still working away. Energy is being made every second, and metabolism never takes a …
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. …
We are excited to announce we are opening a small group Live Blood Analysis immersion workshop here at Living Ground in southern Ecuador. This is an experience where people come to learn how to observe their own blood in real time, understand what they are seeing, and begin to make …
Understanding what is happening inside the body during chronic illness is both a scientific question and a deeply personal one. Modern medicine often relies heavily on laboratory data to tell the story. Blood tests measure enzymes, hormones, minerals, immune markers, and metabolic byproducts. Imaging technologies reveal structures inside tissues. Genetic …
Dimethyl sulfoxide, better known as DMSO, is one of the most unusual compounds ever explored in biology. For decades it has appeared in thousands of scientific papers and has been studied across many areas of physiology and medicine. Most of us don’t know about DMSO and I am not sure …
In nature, nothing suddenly collapses without a long chain of shifts that come before it. Forests decline slowly before trees fall. Rivers change direction before they dry. Soil loses life before crops fail. The human body follows the same pattern. When roughly one in three people will face cancer during …