Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
American Indians consider the earth to be an extension of their bodies and try to coordinate their bodies with the movements of planets and also the rhythm of the seasons.…
My week in Havana was so delightful, friends, talks, preparations for a talk, coffee and cakes, and always every one helping every body else.. This is my Cuba, the Cuba…
I wanted to spend a day exploring the small towns along the Amazon with my Tikuna Indian friends. We set off after breakfast from Leticia, Colombia I had been offered…
A good friend of mine from South Dakota was once visiting Miami and remarked: You are a homeless doctor, but you are always First Class. My brother Eliyahu always prided…
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I became aware of Eric Hobsbawm, while preparing to give a series of lectures at the University of Havana. I had just his book: The Age of Extremes. I love…
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I was requested to present an Introduction to Microbiome and its effect upon (or vice versa) on the Kidney diseases at a health fair being held at a tribal auditorium…
There is a variety of reasons why people get high blood pressure HBP. The history of 130/80 as the normal (which was revised in 2017 to 120/80 as being the…
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0 0 1 492 2809 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 23 6 3295 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Shinrin-yoku A young Indian man drove me…
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I am dedicated to the welfare of the Indigenous peoples. I met Ticuna on one of my earliest trips to the Amazon and our relationship has only strengthened. On this…
I had made the special effort of going to the Brasilian Amazonian town of Benjamin Constant. It turned out to be a metaphorical death. I still feel it as I…
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Mun Ching Yong has been a friend of mine for over a decade when we met on an Air Asia Flight to Siem Reap from Kuala Lumpur in February 2008.…
As far as most of the Omaha Indians are concerned, I am not an Endocrinologist, but their Uncle. Few hours after I arrived at this Indian reservation from the Amazonia,…
