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.
Listen to the Intellectuals, whether you agree with them or not, you may learn something. Just because other people have different opinions from your own, they are not your enemies.…
Since the 1980s, in the USA, obesity and diseases related to that have been on the increase. Despite the enormous amount of money spent on TREATMENT (Americans are less interested…
Why do people Migrate? is it for themselves or for the country that are migrating to ? Is it a fair question to ask a Syrian fleeing Alep, to go…
When talking to my friends at the Ticuna village along the Colombian Amazon, the fear they express, this time around from the Settlers from Europe, is the industrialization of the…
While at the beginning of the Pandemic in 2020 and the various types of isolation that were to follow, many people, including me, welcomed the isolation and lack of intrusion…
When asked to accompany an European-Australian to go for a run around a football field, an Australian aboriginal person accepted the invitation and ran with him around the ground. When…
I have had the privilege of working with Indigenous peoples, in many countries around the world, and had become absorbed in to studying how to make their metabolism recover from…
This is my Blood Pressure before my meditation practice towards the end of the day. a Systolic BP of 112 is very decent and a diastolic of 79 is acceptable.…
Western Intellectual thought does not denote thoughts of the Western people, but a strain of philosophy which was born and nurtured in the Western world, adopted as their own by…
Arcadia, Florida does not seem an appropriate place to say GOOD BYEs..there is a whisper of the gentle southern charm in the air, moss hanging fro trees, no longer do…
Nothing makes me happier than to hear that a woman has been chosen to lead a country. I do not question their political affiliation, one can be sure that we…
It has been a long haul.. long stretched out dinners full conversations late into the night.. catching up on the news of your dear friends.. spontaneously running into faces familiar…
HOW PRECIOUS THINGS ARE DAMAGED BY MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS Words are the greatest source of misunderstanding. And especially when one is reading in another language. I have never added a moral…
A special death There are special deaths, but only Special people deserve that. Death comes out of season, said the Great Orator of the Omaha, The Little Elk. We can't…
AMERICA OR USA is a land of immigrants and more so as each year goes by. When you are in a city like Miami you realize that your chance of…
NUTRITIONAL EXPERTS AND LACK OF CONTEXT I am an Endocrinologist, educated in London, Melbourne and Miami and that doe not mean I would be very successful in Siem Reap, Cambodia…
I had the chance to visit Delta Orinoco in Venezuela on two different occasions. It takes a very long boat ride to get there, gliding past the palafitos of Warao…
DUNBAR NUMBER IN THE TIMES OF COVID This morning BBC Future had an article, How solitude and isolation can affect your social skills. Humans are deeply social creatures, so what…
