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Date: June 2020
June 14, 2020
Friendly Fire: How does an Auto-Immune Illness Happen?
I’ve written a lot now about my health journey this year, where a rare auto-immune disease almost killed me, crippled me, put my family through hell, and how I’ve spent over a year trying to get my life back together. This has been a frightening but motivating journey for me. Many questions have hounded me over these long, trying months: What happened? How did it happen? Why did it happen to me? How do I prevent it from happening again? How can I help my friends and family avoid similarly debilitating illnesses? I refuse to believe some diagnoses that I was just[…continue reading]
June 12, 2020
Home Made Bone Broth
My naturopath got me into bone broth last winter. It’s a drink or soup that contains the results of boiling bones and veggies. It contains collagen, which seems to be in a lot of highly marketed supplements and skin-care products. It can help reduce joint pain, help fight infections and inflammation, help with digestion, and help with sleep [source]. And, I think it tastes pretty good; like all the best parts of chicken soup. There are bone broths you can buy in cartons and bottles. I’ve found them to be hit and miss, and a lot of them are filled[…continue reading]
June 1, 2020
COVID-19 June 2020 Update
This is my 3rd monthly post about life during the pandemic. I am surprised that the pandemic is lasting so long! I guess I naively thought that after two weeks of lockdown it would be contained. Almost two months later and many, many restrictions remain. Below is a neat graphic about how COVID has eclipsed the bottom 7% of causes of death. 300,000+ deaths in 6 months is pretty daunting, but in context, it still is not quite in the top 10 global causes of death: I’m not entirely sure this should have been labelled a pandemic. COVID-19 is in[…continue reading]
