Pot Roast with Bone Marrow Au Jus
I’m a recovering vegetarian. I’ve been paleo for 3½ years, but I was vegetarian for 3½ decades before that. So for the past 3½ years I’ve been easing in. For the first year I ate only poultry and...
View ArticleThe 5 ‘Rs’ of Gut Healing
Heal your gut, heal your life. That’s the new mantra. The new orthodoxy~. And any orthodoxy deserves skepticism. Consideration. Exploration. The ‘heal your gut, heal your life’ prescription needs to be...
View ArticleAn Autoimmune Protocol Meal Plan~
Let’s celebrate the NEW new year: September 1st~! …with a free Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) meal plan from the AIP Bloggers Community. This free download contains 92 easy fall & winter recipes from 18...
View ArticlePeach-Glazed Beef & Broccoli (AIP)
When I was a vegetarian, I read a cookbook by Nigella Lawson & was perplexed by her admission that sometimes she just needed to curl up & eat a big comforting bowl of ground meat. Ground meat...
View ArticleThe Child & Youth Mental Health Epidemic
Maybe we all have a reason to be here. If I have a mission for my time on earth, it’s about healing. Supporting the healing capacity of complex systems~. That’s what I’m attempting with this blog. It’s...
View ArticleBlogging Break~
I’m taking a break from blogging to work on some exciting projects, including our new biohacking platform~. In the meantime, here’s some of my most popular Autoimmune Protocol recipes from the archive:...
View ArticleBiohacking 101: Clean your Laboratory
You are the laboratory~ You are the laboratory~. To generate useful data to improve your health and well-being, you first need to get your laboratory cleaned up! Once you do, you’ll be able to develop...
View ArticleThe New Stages of Change
We all want to change. And change is constant. But we want the ability to create specific change. We want the change we want. I’ve been thinking about change for 20 years. And I’m proposing a...
View ArticleThe Skin Microbiome (& Our Personalized Microbial Cloud~)
I wish I had microscopic vision. Because you wouldn’t look like a human, but a mass of microorganisms organized in a human shape, surrounded by cloud of microbes that would swirl every time you moved....
View ArticleAncestral Eating (& decolonizing our food)
A couple hundred years after my ancestors destroyed the food systems of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas we’ve started our very own ancestral food movement. And most Indigenous people, after...
View ArticleN=1 Nation
Okay, this is an anthem. Seriously. It’s not a song. It’s just full of the same zeal that some people feel for their country. Or for hockey. I get it from a sense of kinship & unity with all the...
View ArticleCrispy Kale with Olives (AIP~)
Being citizens of n=1 nation means that we are free to adopt whatever pattern of living enables us to achieve our health and wellness goals. Though we share our innovations and adaptations with each...
View Article12 Healing Protocols: a guide
So many protocols! There seems to be more all the time. How to choose? First, know this: they’re all based on the same science. So they’re similar. Food-wise, they are anti-inflammatory diets, most of...
View Article12 Healing Protocols: a guide (part 2)
Find part 1 of this post here. In part 1, I considered the Autoimmune Protocol, The Wahls Protocols and the Bulletproof Diet. This post offers an overview of 6 more healing protocols: Aglaée Jacob’s...
View ArticleThe N=1 Healing Protocol
Healing Protocols are proliferating. There’s a dozen of them in 12 Healing Protocols: a guide. And there’s more. Like #13: Dr Datis Kharrazian’s Autoimmune Gut Repair Diet. Why so many? Because new...
View ArticleRainbow ‘Rice’ (AIP~)
When walking, walk. When eating, eat. That’s a Zen Proverb. Eating mindfully is a powerful way to approach the diet and lifestyle changes that are required on a healing protocol. And it is also an...
View ArticleThe Autoimmune Wellness Bundle
Dr Sarah Ballantyne (the Paleo Mom) rocking out in a a kitchen I would dearly love to have~ Last Spring my e-book was available for a few days through the Autoimmune Wellness Bundle. Now we’re offering...
View Article25 minutes to Create a Transformation
When you have your life completely upended by chronic illness, you get to really think about your life. Why you’re here. What it’s all for. And what you want to do with all the good days that are left....
View ArticlePoached Salmon with Leek & Fennel Soup
Before money, we caught fish. We gathered plants. We created money, in part, so we could pay someone else to get our food & bring it to us. With money, we no longer had to know how to find food for...
View ArticleYour Zone of Proximal Development
Your edge. The place you can step into. Grow into. Your zone of possibility. Your zone of proximal development is the space just outside your current capacity that you can reach if you have the right...
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