On a Wild Rocket Ride Hanging out with other international travelers broadens your world a little bit each time. I've been missing my dear new friends, the very fashionable british blogville babes Frankie @frankiestyling, Akeela @actuallyakeela and Katie @katieantoniou. So I thought I a post on...
Keep it Fresh When I started backpacking over two decades ago, I was convinced that packing fresh food was “verboten”. The colossal weight of several extra ounces of avocado on your back were just not worth the delight of savoring it’s creamy green goodness. The hiking...
Luscious lamb with heirloom tomatoes cooked in bacon fat, tart cherries, bold blueberries and sliced sweet banana...
"Death begins in the colon". ~Dr Bernard Jensen No, I don't mean to insinuate that your colon is lurking in a dark corner with a butcher knife just waiting for you to get home (although I'm not ruling it out either!) I'm also not referring to...
"Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert...
One of the easiest ways to dismiss information you don't like or want to suppress is to label someone "a Quack". It's the kiss of death for new ideas and kills innovation. I prefer to encounter new ideas with a healthy skepticism, which includes an inquisitive...
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain "A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD. Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory...
It’s all about balance really. I don’t just mean the everyday concept of balance- of ‘everything in its time, of learning to not overdo things’, but the dynamic set of balances between pairs inherent in any living system. Consider the amazing pairing of balances in our own biology....
"The Perfect Health Diet is more than a diet. It's a program for perfect health. The result of 5 years of research, the Perfect Health Diet enabled scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet to cure their own chronic diseases. With more than 600 citations to the...
The other day I was driving along, maximizing my learning time by listening to a iTunesU podcast on Pathophysiology when I realized that my brain was just stuffed. Full-up. Literally jam-packed. It wasn’t going to take in even one more tiny scrap of information no...