Brain Fog Part 5: Tension
Brain Fog, Calcification, and Myofascial Release Knots, constrictions, adhesions, and overly sore muscles filled with lactic acid often form as defense mechanisms from some initial trauma. Our body i…
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Brain Fog Part 4: Magnesium
Magnesium, Brain Fog, and What to do About it (scroll to bottom for action steps) This might sound dramatic or overly serious, but the body will not function properly or heal from chronic illness if…
Brain Fog Part 3: Mold
What do coffee, cantaloupe, popcorn, LSD, brie, peanut butter, and penicillin have in common? MOLD, either carrying their spores or as a by-product of fungal activity. When mold gets busy, it produce…
Brain Fog Part 2: Movement
Brain Fog Part 2: Physical Stress & Inflammatory Exercise Walking Lifting Leaping Lunging Rolling Tumbling Twerking Twisting Falling Bruising Bouncing Climbing Cartwheels Burpees Burping Biking Squat…
Brain Fog Part 1: Emotions
The Triggers of Brain Fog and How to Reclaim Your Sanity Pt. 1 Cloudy, mushy, thoughts, as if you've stepped into an allergy medicine commercial, your vision hazy, your focus scattered and twitchy. M…
Insomnia, Liver Function, and Stress
"At night, I can't sleep. In the morning, I can't wake up." --Unknown After many years of treating symptoms, taking supplements, drinking teas and guzzling tinctures, following rigid healing diets, co…
Laxatives, Bowel Movements, and Beyond
Is there anything as satisfying, as relieving, as energizing as a complete bowel movement? To this day, I haven't found a better road to immediate, physiological joy. A functioning bowel: a true gift…
Oysters for Nutrition and Perspective
Smoked oysters have found a home in my heart. I've always swooned for them raw on the half shell, squeezed with lemon and enjoyed in the sunshine with a loved one. I save those moments for special oc…
Ray Peat Inspired Milk Powder Pancakes
Over the years, I have dabbled in all forms of pancakes. What can I say, they make my heart yodel and bounce around with childhood excitement. I grew up eating everything from diner pancakes smothere…
Soil-Based Probiotics, Disease, and Supplement Scams
Microbiome research continues to blossom to the great delight of the curious, constipated, and the bloated. Anyone suffering from gut dysbiosis and microbiota imbalances revels in the new knowledge t…