I’d heard about my oldest friend Betsy’s other best friend, Richard, for years before I met him in person last weekend. I traveled from Boston to Durham, NC, and Richard from Kansas, for a party Betsy and her husband Tom were hosting. Richard is the most skilled cook I ever met; he chops vegetables like… [Continue reading]
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Zeitoun
“He who does not know the village from which he comes, will never find the village that he seeks.” Chinese Proverb In the town of Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb west of Boston, there are two public high schools, Newton South and Newton North. This summer’s required reading for every one of the 3700… [Continue reading]
Eggs!
I would like to share with my readers a personal experience that reinforced my respect for the power of food sensitivities, and may perhaps result in your own reflections linking specific foods with symptoms that trouble you. Before I discovered GAPS, I had been on a fruitless lengthy search for treatment of constipation that had… [Continue reading]
My “Go To” Convenience Snack
COCOA PODS GROWING ON THE TREE Like many people today, my life is really busy with kids, work, house, garden, dogs, etc. I like to cook and I do quite a bit of it. My refrigerator is always filled with ingredients and left-overs. But you can have a full refrigerator, and still need to find… [Continue reading]
Dr. Natasha’s Army
Last weekend I attended a GAPS Practitioner Certification workshop outside of New York City with 40 other health care providers. There were naturopaths, osteopaths, nutritionists, occupational therapists, homeopaths, a holistic nurse, a woman in preventative dentistry, chiropracters, acupuncturists, in short, alternative health care practitioners of every stripe. Only four of us were physicians, two neurologists,… [Continue reading]
