Paradigm Shift in Patient Care: It’s Not What You Think

There is a measurable shift in patient health care, coming from the most unlikely of sources: the patients themselves. As costs rise, insurance premiums skyrocket (in the U.S.) and all other forms of allopathic medicine follow suit, patients have had to become savvy.  The time-constraint imposed on physicians has come at a cost to both…

Lyme Disease: Chasing Causes or Chasing Cures

I was just reading yet another post about possible causes/ origins of Lyme disease.. Many people speculate that it is a government created bio-weapon.  Who knows.. maybe it is.. I certainly wouldn’t put it PAST certain bodies and agencies, and is it possible- sure.. I don’t rule out that possibility.. although I also respect that…

Essential Oils – One of Nature’s Antibiotics

Essential oils, the mainstay of aromatherapy, are well known and much appreciated for their ability to uplift emotions, energise a tired body, help induce restful sleep, as well as improve the condition of the skin.  Not so well known is the fact that some essential oils are ‘natural antibiotics’ and that over the course of…

Chronic Lyme: Immoral Pioneers of Health

Chronic conditions suck.  Literally and metaphorically.  They are draining, depleting and compromise the quality of Life.  Period.  Plain and simple.  I had one Andean teacher who really nailed healing 100% dead center.  Many people talk about the need to make peace with an illness, to understand why it came.  He noted that was crap (…

Lyme Disease and Benefits of Chaga Medicinal Mushrooms

Before we can appreciate and understand the various benefits of Chaga medicinal mushrooms for helping treatment and symptoms of Lyme, it is important to understand the basic functions and impact of Lyme disease itself. As anyone who has encountered Lyme, or lives with it knows- it is a very sneaky and insidious and invasive condition…