Mismatch disease is when our culture has changed more than our bodies can handle, sickness results. The story of the human body is a book by Daniel E. Lieberman a Harvard Professor of human evolutionary biology. He has a few books on running, exercise, evolution of head and hundreds of scientific papers. I found this… (Read More)
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I review my life in a more formal way twice a year and I often make an article to sell you on doing it also. Here’s this years pitch, enjoy. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.– Soren Kierkegaard I think an important thing in ones life is to recognize
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I wrote this originally a few years ago. I modified it a bit and I hear about this at work everyday during the “family holiday get togethers”. You have not seen your brother for 4 years but it is like you started the argument from the last word that was said, all that time ago.
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I am doing a course on Nutrition and Eating in Chinese Medicine and I came across this story in the book. “Welcoming Food, Andrew Sterman”. Understanding Ourselves?There is a wonderful teaching about the neurology of worms. The common worm has 302 neurons (brain cells), connected by perhaps 7,000 synapse. That’s a lot, but its’ not
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Fascia is the connective tissue that surrounds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber and muscle. It helps hold things in place and provides some internal structure and if you have persistent pain this may be your culprit. Fascia has six times more nerves than muscles making it almost as sensitive as skin. When stressed, injured
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I was recently invited to the opening of the Okanagan Buddhist Cultural Centre (Chùa Tây Trúc Kelowna) [They are working on their website]. It was a wonderful experience, which reminded me of my experiences with Buddhism and how it has helped me. A long time ago (November 1, 1991) a car hit my car at
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I am getting rid of books. I have just run out of space. I am going through my early childhood parenting books and I re-read the highlights and take notes before they go the book club. I did this one: How to Raise a Child with a High EQBy Lawrence E. Shapiro, Ph.D. A number
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If you know how to do a Rubik’s Cube then it’s easy. If you don’t, well then you may have a problem. You can always rip apart the thing and pop the pieces back into the correct order, or even peel off the stickers and make it look like you did it correctly. The applications
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We have all said it and heard it. “I know that.” The trouble is they can not actually do it. I read an interesting article, below, that points out a reason, bias. I got the article from: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25436 Knowing is Half the Battle Children of the 1980’s (like the younger of these two co-authors) may
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Nobel Scientists help explain how Acupuncture works and shows how far we have to go in understanding the human body.
Temp and Touch wins a Nobel prize and helps explain Acupuncture Read More »
