Dealing with the physical symptoms of a disease is stressful. But dealing with all the various meanings and judgments attached to that disease is another task entirely, sometimes even more stressful than the physical challenges. Every culture and subculture has a story about what it means to be sick. Most of the time, we...
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Today I want to share one of the conversations I had recently with Ann Boroch in prepping for our Autoimmune Warrior Bootcamp we’ll be launching on October 2nd. We talked about the pesky yeast known as candida – and why it’s the bane of many people’s existence (mine included). Ann is an expert on...
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I found the following excerpt from Caroline Myss’s Anatomy of the Spirit to be incredibly profound, valuable, and relevant to anyone with an illness. I had to share it. I suspect that it might be illegal to reprint this length of an excerpt from a book without permission, but I feel strongly enough about...
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Each of the 10 books I’m about to tell you about has had a profound impact on my life and my health. Some of these books are invaluable MS-specific references. They say that knowledge is power, well when it comes to chronic illness, a little bit of knowledge can make an enormous difference in...
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Lately, there are mornings when I wake up and I feel kinda okay – aware of various discomforts in my body, but more or less okay. There are also mornings lately when I wake up and I dread the 15 hours I need to be alive until I get to go to sleep again....
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The following is an excerpt from Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment by David Perlmutter, M.D., F.A.C.N. and Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. Dr. Perlmutter is a practicing neurologist in Naples, FL at The Perlmutter Health Center and is one of a handful of neurologists that integrates “alternative” therapies like the use of IV...
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So as most of you already know, Ann Boroch and I are gearing up to launch the Autoimmune Warrior Bootcamp: 7 weeks to a Diet, Detox & Nutritional Makeover for Total Recovery. In preparation for the course, she and I have been talking a lot on Skype, and we decided it’d be cool to...
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I’ve had many people write me since my last post asking what they should do if they can’t buy organic produce. Apparently I alarmed some folks with my slightly exaggerated “might as well drink Drano” comparison. So, I did a bit of research and found a great answer from Brian R. Clement, director of...
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Since my interview with Terry Wahls, MD on Wednesday night (Week Three of the MS Voices Interview Series), I’ve been eating lots of kale. How could I not? My mitochondria are hungry, and I haven’t been properly feeding them. Now, every time I eat my kale, I’ve been imagining my mitochondria – those little ...
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If you weren’t able to make it on the live call last Thursday (the first in the MS Voices Interview Series), below is an excerpt from my 1 hr and 27 minute interview with Prof. Jelinek. In the excerpt, he discusses the flaws in the scientific studies which “prove” the effectiveness of the interferon...
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