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.
AN ENCOUNTER WITH MEXICO IN THE FAR NORTH, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, USA Bismarck, North Dakota is possibly the northernmost city of any size, furthest away from the USA border with…
CAMEL MILK. A NATURAL ANTI-DOTE TO DIABETES, OF COURSE IN CONTEXT BioMed Central is an extraordinarily wide and comprehensive source of cutting edge research and investigations from around the world.…
THE POVERTY OF LACK OF TIME On a flight from Madrid to New York City sometimes ago, I sat next to a corporate type gentleman who began pounding away at…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE SELF AND SOCIETY There have been Prophets and False Prophets. None of our ancestors caught on to the false prophets but some…
BRIDES LES BAINS THE WEIGHT LOSS CAPITAL OF FRANCE, BUT DOES IT WORK? The Water and the Body in the French Alps: Charles (The Bald) OF FRANCE , Holy Roman…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INVEST IN FRIENDSHIPS, IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH Looking at the habits of healthy and happy people, all over the world,…
CUBA IN MY HEART INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER AT TK ICP LOUNGE AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT American Indians say, Things happen for Reason. There are no coincidences, it is just we cannot understand…
Life should be without Longings and Regrets Once when I was a Junior Doctor at a hospital in Brisbane, Australia, I remember leaning on the wall to support myself, to…
INFLAMMATION AS THE COMMON PATHWAY TO CHRONIC DISEASES IN 2002, I was wandering around the streets of Johor Bahru, Malaysia when I came across books being sold at a Hindu…
WHO BROUGHT THE SCRIPT TO SOUTH EAST ASIA: HINDUS OR BUDDHISTS IN OTHER WORDS, WHO IS THE REAL BUMIPUTRA? I was merrily walking along the street in front of the…
GIFTS OF INDONESIA: THIS TIME FROM BALI I had to divert my trip to the USA from Europe, so that I could once again be with my Indonesian friends. My…
I have been very lucky to be visiting various parts of the USA on a regular basis. Initially there was no pattern to my travels, but lately: South Florida, Nebraska/Iowa/South…
Walking around this latin american city, watching the empty shops, sad faces in the streets, I felt a sadness which can be due to a combination of emotions and as…
the literate man of sioux city surviving in a non literate city the weekend was upon us, the Americans were celebrating the Mexican equivalent of the Day of the Dead,…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE REMARKABLE MEN and WOMEN WHO BLESS YOUR LIFE During the month of April, 2013 I was fortunate to travel to the Indian…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST THINKS ABOUT CHOLERA CHOLERA AND DIABETES IS THERE A METAPHORIC CONNECTION? When we talk about a CURE for Cholera, what…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE NEVER GIVE UP ON A PATIENT OF YOURS AND IN FACT ON ANOTHER HUMAN BEING FOR THAT MATTER. About ten years ago,…
After weathering the Snow storm while visiting the Lakota Indians, I made up my mind to visit Pak Hendra in Bogor. But as is my routine, I decided to make…
