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.
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 I have had the pleasure of visiting Indigenous groups in most of the…
Para escapar do coronavírus, Yanomami se refugiam no interior da Floresta To escape the Coronavirus, Yanomami take refuge in the Interior of the Forest My Heart is Broken tonight It…
Thrifty Gene, Dr. Marcela LeBeau and SNP on ABCA1 gene. A century of American Indians and Diabetes When I first read about J.V.Neel’s Thrifty gene theory, I was immediately attracted…
I have been very lucky to have some very good friends in KL, of course not to mention my best friend in all of Asia, YMC, whom I met while…
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…
I was not aware of this book, nor of the reviewer a Canadian by the name of Bhupinder Singh. I have reproduced the entire review for people interested in the…
It is a slow saturday morning here in the Reservation of the UmonHon Indians. Today is the last day I have to send in evaluations of the 7 speakers assigned…
I had presented at a Latin American Congress of Academics my findings about the FALSE TAINOS of Baracoa. People who have some genetic admixture of Native Blood in Cuba (estimated…
The portrait above is that of the Great Chief Sitting Bull of the Lakota. I had spent this weekend indoors. While this house is in an isolated part of the…
I have been traveling continuously since 1993, when I left the flat in London on a journey to Malaysia, even though I had not lived anywhere permanently since 1986. What…
Tire-Bouchon is the two carriage train that goes from the popular seaside town of Quiberon to Auray where one can catch major trains to various parts of Brittany as well…
After leaving France and Belgium, it was so good to spend a few days in Miami, my American home. Miami always reminds me of the variety of food and the…
THERE ARE NO OTHER, THE OTHER IS ME: INDIAN WISDOM A VERY SPECIAL SHABBAT SHALOM FROM SAO PAOLO IN BRASIL I had a wonderful day at USP- University of Sao…
WELCOME HOME A NATIVE AMERICAN WELCOME One of the greatest gifts in my life has been my choice to work with American Indians. The plans were to finish my post…
MEDICAL CONSULTATION IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY I am proud to be a Physician to some Native American Indian tribes. On this day, this 54 year old Indian came to see…
DEAR FRIENDS I send these greetings to you because I consider my relationship with you to be important. This long winded thoughts put down on paper is my way of…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE FROM INDIANS TO CUBANS A FREQUENT FLIER ODYSSEY At 630 AM, as NPR was broadcasting the news of the day, I drove…
BLONDE HAIRED GYPSY AND OTHER AMERICAN INDIAN TALES When I showed a photo of a Breton family get together, taken in a village in Brittany in France, to an American…
