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.
YVES BERTHOU AND PRANAYAMA Most people in the west are now aware of the Yogic Breathing, Pranayama, which is used for relaxation as well as treatment for some of the…
THE EXHILARATION AT FERNANDO BOTERO MUSEUM IN CANDELARIA, BOGOTA… WHICH PART OF OUR BRAIN DOES GET STIMULATED? Bogota has that vague familiarity as one drives through, the ochre colours of…
If you are reading airline magazines or on the net browsing, every now and then you come across the ads: How does this neurosurgeon look so good without his scrubs?…
We are all looking for a Better Life! I spend time thinking about the three different philosophies that I have become interested in over the years: The Yogic philosophy of…
SYMBOLIC HEALING WHAT CAN WE LEARN IN RAPA NUI One of the pleasures of being trained as a Medical Anthropologist is to absorb with the vision you have been taught…
Like most western educated Medical Doctors, I was not that interested in the Mind Body Connection in Health while I was a Medical Student, Resident in Internal Medicine and a…
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 A JEWISH DOCTOR INCLINED TOWARDS BUDDHISM WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRAINING MAY BE YOUR BEST BET IN HEALTH CARE The four noble truths contain…
Borinquen de mi amor! Yo soy hijo de Borinquen Y eso nadie va a cambiar Y el día que yo me muera En ti quiero descansar Yo te adoro Puerto…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE IS JOGGING GOOD FOR YOU? I remember visiting a group of Indians who lived along the Canon del Cobre or Copper Canyon…
CHOOSE A CAREER TO SUIT YOUR PERSONALITY, NOT YOUR INCOME Thank God for the Indians (Los Indios de America) I had done particularly well in the latter years of my…
NATURE DICTATES AND SCIENCE PROVES The role of the anthropologist is to act as a translator between cultures and thus make available concepts in a more appreciated and understandable form.…
"When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things." -- Frank Fools Crow, LAKOTA If we…
shows two scientific studies published in two leading medical journals in the USA! But let me explain... When I became interested in the Yoga Philosophy of Ancient India, I also…
YOGA AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS Do not use Yoga Practice as a short cut to become “Happy”. Practicing yoga to reach a state of happiness/ bliss is an arduous…
YOGA FOR PREVENTION OF CANCER HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE DIABETES The popularity of Yoga has skyrocketed. Th e practice of yoga has increased in many countries, such as the United States…
What is the image of Yoga in the western mind? Twisted bodies in contorted poses, clean studios where a group of people meditating or out in the open, preferably by…
