How French Fries Wreck People
French fries have an image problem. They sit in the cultural dock like repeat offenders – greasy, addictive, and somehow responsible for everything from metabolic syndrome to the collapse of Western civilization. The potato, the poor innocent tuber, has been convicted without a fair trial. But here’s the inconvenient truth: it’s not the potato. It’s […]
Long Covid – When the Lights Stay On but the Power Is Gone
Mitochondria, Meaning, and the Long Goodbye of Viral Illness Long after the fever breaks and the test turns negative, many people discover that something essential never came back online. The body is present. The labs look acceptable. The doctors are polite. And yet energy – real energy, the kind that lets you think clearly, walk […]
The Quiet Power of Massage
Modern medicine is spectacular at emergencies. It can replace hips, restart hearts, and peer into the body with machines that would have looked like witchcraft a century ago. Yet it remains strangely awkward around one of the most ancient, effective, and low-tech healing tools humans have ever known: touch. Massage therapy, despite being practiced in […]
We Saved Money on Dinner and Spent It on Doctors
There was a time – recent enough that your grandparents could still complain about it – when Americans spent a ridiculous amount of money on food. Not truffle oil money. Not chia-seed pudding money. Just… food. Real food. Flour, eggs, vegetables that looked like vegetables, meat that once had opinions. Back then, food took up […]
The New Dietary Guidelines And Why They Still Point You Toward Real Food
Why the New Guidelines Caused Confusion Every few years, new dietary guidelines are released and a familiar wave of anxiety follows. This time, the emphasis on protein has left many people wondering whether everything they’ve learned about healthy eating has suddenly been overturned. Questions come quickly: Does this mean I should eat more meat? Is […]
Keys to Great Health
“Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that made him sick.” —Hippocrates (Who, it should be noted, did not own a microwave.) The Long, Unsexy Truth About Health Health does not arrive on a white horse. It does not burst through the door yelling, “Surprise! You’re cured!” And […]
A Christmas Music Prescription
If laughter is the best medicine, then I’d like to think music is a close second. I discovered around the age of 18 that I have an ear for playing music, which is a blessing and a curse. I’m confessing that my love for music borders on problematic. Most days if I’m running behind I […]
Understanding the Ketogenic Diet
What Is the Ketogenic Diet? The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, moderate-protein, very low-carbohydrate nutrition strategy designed to shift the body’s metabolism away from glucose and toward fat as its primary fuel source. Although it has surged in popularity for weight loss and metabolic health, the ketogenic diet originated as a therapeutic intervention for epilepsy […]
Why a Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet Makes Sense — Even According to Our Ancestors
A sweeping 2025 study titled “The Broad Spectrum Species: Plant Use and Processing as Deep Time Adaptations”, published in Journal of Archaeological Research, fundamentally re-examines what early humans ate, and in doing so, challenges the popular mythology behind the modern “paleo diet.” Rather than being strictly meat-eating hunters, our ancestors apparently relied heavily on a […]
The Hidden Power of Bone Stock
A Timeless Healing Food Returns We make lots of bone stock at our house. It’s super easy and extends our food budget considerably. The usual go-to stock is chicken. A small free range hen costs about $10 and provides several meals just with the meat. The night the bird is cooked the carcass is picked […]