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.
There are some people whose presence in your life is mutually joyous, we bring joy to each other. I feel happy whenever I see you, said Avi, born in Khartoum,…
While growing up, one of the more interesting person, a truly erudite person, that I met was Erwin F. I do not remember meeting him more than two or three…
Survival during the passage of time I look forward to the monthly FULL moon Satsang with Sadhguru the mystic from South India. Tonight was the full moon 20 September 2021…
In just 50 years, almost a million Jews, whose communities stretch back up to 3,000 years, have been 'ethnically cleansed' from 10 Arab countries. These refugees outnumber the Palestinian refugees…
I am always grateful to my Israeli colleagues to provide innovative evidence to collaborate what i observe in my clinical practice among the Indigenous people. Abstract OBJECTIVE To compare the…
Brittany much like Wales with which it shares some pre historic connections is a motoring country. Quiberon is a popular spot for French visitors and at this time of the…
TIKKUN OLAM MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA TO MIAMI FLORIDA Yesterday a Jewish friend of mine wanted me to talk to a friend of his and guide his friend with some medical advice.…
I have worked with Indigenous people in many parts of the world but Indians of North America are especially closer to my heart. I have gotten to know them better,…
I am not sure which one of my professors at the University of Melbourne teaching hospital told me: Choose a specialty that suits your personality. I had observed the various…
I can look through the large glass window as I type this and see wonderful trees that grow in the space on the front of these townhouses. In the backyard…
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 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…
Tonight is the Full Moon of April 2021. I joined on line to a philosophical/spiritual discussion by a leading Guru from South India. Normally his talks are entertaining but this…
IN 2008, On an Air Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Siem Reap, Cambodia, I met MCY who would become my closest friend in Asia. We shared/continue to share…
When I began my journeys in the Americas, I was impressed with the wealth of literature available. At that time, I did not speak Spanish or Portugues, thus my world…
While we were reading Medicine at the University, we are taught about the glucose excursions after a meal, in such a fashion. A powerpoint goes up and the teacher explains:…
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…
