This series of blogs on Mitochondria is from the notes that accompany a presentation at the Vancouver Island Herb Gather June 11, 2022. In our first 2 blogs in this series (Blog 1, Blog 2), we looked at the basic function of the mitochondria and how they affect our body if they become dysfunctional. There
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An extract from a Wild Rose College’s online course: Cannabis: An Introduction for Healthcare provider, starting mid-January 2020. In our last two parts of this blog, we discussed briefly some of the substances that could reduce symptoms of THC over-dose and introduced strategies to help reduce adverse symptoms. In this section we are going
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Kimchi is very important to the Korean diet. Unlike sauerkraut or those bread and butter pickle slices that you may or may not eat next to your sandwich, Kimchi is unquestionably a part of a Korean meal— it’s non‐negotiable. This single foodstuff has completely infiltrated Korean culture: there is Kimjang, the annual communal Kimchi-making ritual
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Even though there are several benefits to fermentation, probably the most important one in our modern world, is for our own immunity. Bacteria outnumber our own human cells by at least 10 to 1 (even though some research is currently debating this). If there are 30 – 75 trillion human cells, this means we have
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