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%$#**&(#@ HMOs
How is it that, after years on Cigna, I finally find a doctor I like, who doesn’t think I’m a complete nut case, who is fine with me using her as a diagnostician and supports me in researching gentler...
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A Pox on My House!
Chicken pox has blessedly come and now just as blessedly gone for my four now-immune children. The pox parties are over (yes, a few people wanted to come over); life is returning to normal. Expect new...
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Boiling Over
So it seems that Kyro, age 6, seems to be one of those people who just happens to be susceptible to boils. He had one in an unmentionable location several years ago while still in diapers. Then a...
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Ron Paul and Raw Milk
Kudos to Texas Senator Ron Paul for introducing some sensible legislation regarding raw milk! Milk and dairy products are a food and should not be regulated any differently than other foodstuffs. We...
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I’ve Been Branded; or, The Miracle of Coconut Oil
I think I may have a permanent brand on my hand. Does that sound nicer than scar, or worse? I’m not sure. But it’s such a cool shape, almost a perfect diamond, that it looks more like a brand than a...
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The Day I Didn’t Get a Migraine
In recent years I have started getting migraine headaches. At first minor and not often, but with increasing frequency and intensity. Visual Warning Sign Lately, in the last several months, the...
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Do Humans Have Vegetarian or Omnivore Teeth?
I’ve gotten a bit fed up (get it?) of seeing vegetarian sites claim humans should be vegetarian based on physiology, and then compare human form and function to herbivore and carnivore, but ignore...
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Protanomaly and Deuteranomaly and Colorblindness, Oh My!
My father wears shades of blue almost exclusively. That’s because my mother always bought his clothes in shades of blue. And that is because neither of them wanted her to have to dress him every...
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Of Mystery Bruises, Medial Epicondyles, and Fuzzy Pink Socks
Anatomy lesson! Feel the inside of your elbow and find the big knob – not the one on the end, the one on the inside, toward your hip. That is the end of your humerus, called the medial epicondyle. And...
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