We are made of protein. Protein is the structural element of everything living. Protein is made out of tiny pieces called amino acids. They function like Lego blocks and pieces. With enough pieces you can make just about anything. Amino acids only contain 10 to 20 atoms each and in the human body there are 22 […]
Prototype for Perfection
Deep within each of us is a blueprint for our ultimate perfect expression. It is the potential we have within us to become awesome. This is not some vague wish-fulfillment fantasy fluff, but real hard-core potential unique to each of us. It is built into our genes and epigenetic coding, and offers us the fulfillment of […]
Basic Reset
About a week ago I read a book on vagus nerve function and clinical applications. The vagus nerve has been described as the rest and digest nerve that comes out from the base of your skull and travels down to most all of your internal organs like the heart, lungs, and digestive system. This would normally be […]
Jumping
A significant issue we all get to face as we age is the loss of the strength of our bones. I have written about the physiology of our bones and the nutrition necessary to support their continued strength. The focus of that information was that our bones are primarily made of protein. As such we need to support […]
Approval
I was sitting in my homemade heat lamp sauna a couple days ago when an interesting thought/picture came into my head. It was a visual of what looked like a tachometer gauge on a car dashboard. If you have spent your life in automatic transmission cars, you may not have much experience with a tachometer, […]
Protein Recycling
We live in a truly wonderful age for reasons we completely take for granted, like sewers and garbage service. Turn the clock back just a couple hundred years and your typical London home had a cesspit beneath the house that, when full, would then flow into a trough in the middle of the street and hopefully flow […]
Choline
Last week I came across an article about the use ofcholine for the treatment of fatty liver disease. This grabbed my attention because many years ago I had acquired fatty liver disease after flirting with fruitarianism for several months. The primary cause of fatty liver is fructose (fruit sugar) or alcohol. Half of regular white sugar is […]
Aging
I have been reading the new book just released by Jason Fung, The Longevity Solution. Jason is the kidney specialist from Toronto I have mentioned to many of you that have blood sugar problems because he has been reversing diabetes through fasting. Now he has written a book with Dr. DiNicolantonio expanding the amazing results on […]
Diarrhea
This is not a topic most people want to think about – until you have to. So why am I thinking about it? One of Ellen’s clients was visiting Europe when she was struck with this common traveler’s condition. She texted Ellen and asked what to do. She was planning to fast for a day […]
What is Love?
Last weekend Ellen and I went to an 80th birthday party for an old friend. The party was thrown by the Sai Baba society of Sacramento, which she has been very active in for a long time. The event was a beautiful collision of different faiths as the event was held in the Zoroastrian Temple and […]