Praying With Lior and Labors of Love
Last night I saw Praying with Lior, a documentary about the bar mitzvah of a boy with Down’s Syndrome. Easily the best movie I’ve seen this year, better than There Will Be Blood, Mary Poppins (leaving...
View ArticleNutrition and Physical Degeneration
Weston Price’s masterpiece, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects (1939), is online here. The chapters I like are the ones where he visits...
View ArticleCity of Berkeley Economics: The Value of Snobbery
The City of Berkeley, which Jane Jacobs called a “pretentious suburb,” isn’t doing well economically. There was a Barnes & Noble downtown, a kind of anchor store. It closed. There was a Ross...
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If Commercials Told Emotional Truth
…many of them, maybe all of them, would be unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Thanks to my friend Carl Willat, you can now see such a commercial. Carl makes commercials for a living but he made this...
View ArticleBreakthrough in Treating MS
When Paulo Zamboni’s wife came down with MS (multiple sclerosis), he was in an unusual position: He was a professor of medicine. Not only did he have technical expertise, he was going to care far more...
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In 2001, Bruce Charlton criticized the Human Genome Project. “The hype that surrounds the human genome project is essentially a form of advertising.” “Patients feel the single greatest impediment...
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“When you are good [at your work], you must apologize.” Italian academia. no effect of omega-3 clinical trials of new MS therapy go ahead in spite of MS society disapproval. Canadian MS society...
View ArticleEpilepsy’s Big, Fat Miracle …
… is the title of a New York Times Magazine article about the ketogenic diet, a treatment for childhood epilepsy, which I’ve blogged about several times (here, here, here, here, here). It’s a...
View ArticleExamples of MS Liberation Therapy
This story from the Globe and Mail describes what happened to ten Canadians who left the country to get liberation therapy for their multiple sclerosis (MS). The therapy consists of widening veins that...
View ArticleMore News about Liberation Therapy
An Italian surgeon, Paolo Zamboni, claimed that he found low blood flow from the brain in 100% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). He began by studying his wife. A new study supports the...
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Benefits of fermented wheat germ extract Why Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is unlikely. A list of AGW-associated “miracles”. Some of my favorites: “Unique among all sciences, climatology develops...
View ArticleThe Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz
The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz was published two weeks and I got a copy from the publisher. It has a few conceptual chapters (“fermentation as a coevolutionary force”, health benefits, small...
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