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Medicine

I’ve learned the hard way that at least some organic apples may be unsafe to eat. Since last summer, I’ve experienced neurotoxicity after eating organic apples from organic grocers, farmer’s markets, and restaurants in Oregon and Washington. Since apples are on the short list of foods included in the Vega diet, and since other patients …

If the modern food supply has become a radical experiment in chemistry, and nearly everyone is eating food that contains biocides, and the emerging epidemics are due to chronic biocide poisoning, why isn’t everyone sick? That is an important question. Those of us who suffer with an emerging environmental disease can tell how complex and …

In continuing to observe my body’s response to known or suspected exposures, I have formed more specific hypotheses for cure that may allow others suffering from emerging epidemics to recognize when biocides may be harming their tissues. 1 Eating neonicotinoid-contaminated foods may cause peripheral neuropathy that feels like shooting pains or tender aches in your …

I love cauliflower prepared in the Indian way with fennel seeds and root vegetable puree. Back in the 80’s when I first developed bowel problems, it was a regular part of my diet. Last week I ate had something similar at a vegan restaurant in my neighborhood. In retrospect I’m not sure what I was …

The other day I went across the street to a farmer’s market and bought a block of my favorite cheese, a lightly smoked artisanal cheese from an organic creamery in a nearby town. Having consumed small amounts of New Zealand cheddar without developing symptoms, I decided to try two big slices of the smoked cheese. …

When I tell my former colleagues about my personal experiments with corn oil, those who take an interest promptly ask me, “What happens when you eat organic corn oil?” The answer is, “I haven’t tried it.” There are a number of reasons for that. One is that my most recent experiment was excruciating. It set …

When I had learned to avoid foods that showed any signs of mold or blight, and to reduce my umbilical hernia after eating carbs and fats, I turned again to trying new foods. At a favorite neighborhood restaurant that was not too expensive, but that served dishes that I could eat with minimal symptoms, I …

It’s been a year now since I decided to consult a new doctor. The doctor whom I had been consulting before had made up his mind that Chronic Lyme Disease and related infections were causing my myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). I appreciated his willingness to care for patients like me, and his efforts to find new …

When I first consulted a gastroenterologist, she asked me what was wrong. When I said that I had bloating, she literally threw up her hands and exclaimed, “Everybody has it!” Half an hour later, she prescribed medicines that blocked stomach acid production and relieved the symptoms of reflux. I took them. They offered relief but …

This has been a bad health year for me. Like other bad years, it began with an interval of adrenal stress and a series of fall viral infections that triggered a flare of illness that has lasted for months. I eat only a few hypoallergenic foods, rely on vitamins and probiotics, and sometimes take antibiotics …

When doing medical research, we often ignore that we are an integral part of the web of life. We reason destructively. We draw artificial lines that separate our bodies from our surroundings, and that break our bodies down into systems, organs, tissues, cells, metabolic pathways, and molecules. We forget that we are more than the …

In 1996 I developed what the Centers for Disease Control labeled “chronic fatigue syndrome.” Since 1996, American doctors have labeled my illness as chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic Lyme disease, borrelliosis, and bartonella. The Aussie ones call it M.E., or myalgic encephalomyelitis. Whatever the label, the signs and symptoms …