Playing With Fire
Recently, I suffered a second-degree burn on my neck. I was burning brush and a wind-blown ember landed on me, raising a few blisters and reddening the entire surrounding area. Because it was the last day of burning season and it was already mid-afternoon (the [...]
Browse Our Bookshelf – Issue No. 10
Well, gardening season is upon us. I found a nice, sunny spot to settle down in while I wrote this, and was rewarded by watching a pair of cardinals build a nest in a wild blueberry bush across a grassy sward from me (very exciting!). [...]
Rainbow Coleslaw
Ingredients: ● 5 ounces bean sprouts or other favourite sprout mix (i.e: sunflower, chia, broccoli and/or pea shoots) ● 1 cup green and/or red cabbage, chopped ● ½ cup seedless grapes, cut in half ● ½ cup fresh pineapple, chopped (or canned unsweetened crushed pineapple) [...]
How to Have a Meaningful Life When You Have a Chronic Illness
It usually seems to be the case that having a chronic illness, like inflammatory bowel disease or irritable bowel syndrome, diminishes our lives. From traveling to eating to working and playing, we feel limited by how much and for how long we can do the [...]
Hydrogen Peroxide & Potassium Iodide
Question: I come from Germany, that is why some of the words or expressions I use may seem strange, but I hope you will understand what I mean. I wanted to share with you my experience with oregano oil and ask some questions. I have [...]
Browse Our Bookshelf
I actually bought this book on impulse, after receiving a directmail advertisement for it. I’d learned a lot about estrogen/progesterone balance in What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause by John R. Lee, MD and Jesse Hanley, MD. Hormone balance had been touched [...]
Making food go further: The art of freezing
One of the best ways to save money is to make sure that you don’t waste any of the food that you buy! I can’t tell you how often I hear from clients that they were so proud of themselves for buying a ton of [...]
Looking the part
Body image is one of those sometimes painful issues that manages to reach out and grasp with cold and clammy fingers, people of every sex and age. I remember hearing a cute story about an elderly man. His wife heard him huffing and puffing in [...]
The Power of Sprouts
Many do not realize the healing power of sprouts but the founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute, Ann Wigmore, dedicated her life to rediscover the healing and culinary properties of sprouts. Her Institute treated people, over many years, for many different disorders. Sprouts were found [...]
Some ideas for surviving and thriving when you have a chronic illiness
In this article, I’m going to share several strategies you can use to survive and thrive with irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, and similar chronic illnesses. These are ideas I’ve acquired over the past six years as I’ve coached people with illnesses like yours. [...]
Update on DMSO & Potassium Iodide Experimental Protocols
In Issue #7 of the Good Health Is Real Wealth infoletter, I presented my new, experimental protocols using DMSO and potassium iodide to heal both internal and external hemorrhoids and also to soften and dissolve rectal scar tissue or other traumas to the rectal tissue [...]
Absorb Plus & Candida
Question: I’m very concerned though about the issue of Absorb Plus feeding Candida. I decided to use Absorb Plus to do the IBD Remission Diet because your book says that it would starve the good and bad bacteria in the gut, almost creating a clean [...]
How To Gain Weight
While there are hundreds of books and articles with tons of ideas on how to lose weight, if you are a skinny person who’s trying to gain weight – and you’re not a bodybuilder – there’s not a whole lot of information available. As someone [...]
The Need To Make Peace With The Past In Order To Heal
The majority of chronically ill clients I work with are on some form of medication. Their medical doctors have outlined what they can hope to accomplish, and how their body will respond, if they continue to use the medication; and what to expect if they [...]
Eating With The Seasons
We live in a culture where most foods are available to us at any time of the year. Go into your local food store in the middle of winter and you will probably find strawberries, despite the fact that they are able to grow in [...]
Recipe – Carrot Parsnip Soup
Ingredients: 2 Tbsp. olive oil 1 medium yellow onion, chopped 4-5 medium carrots, peeled and coarsely chopped 4-5 medium parsnips, peeled and coarsely chopped 4 cups organic chicken broth 1 1/2 cups filtered water 1/4 tsp. pepper, or to taste 1/4 tsp. salt, or to [...]
Recipe – Veggie Stuffed Squash
Ingredients: 2 small winter squash—acorn, delicata, butternut, etc. 2 tsp. ghee or olive oil 1 small bunch rainbow chard, washed and cut into small pieces 2 Tbsp. dried cranberries 2 Tbsp. slivered almonds 1 Tbsp. coconut flakes 1/8 tsp. ground cinnamon pinch ground fennel pinch [...]
Potpourri
I’ve titled this article Potpourri as it’s comprised of information on a variety of subjects: Relief for yeast infections, beating the winter blues, and saving pennies without compromising on quality. Yeast Infections Aid and Comfort For years, I’ve had premenstrual cravings. Even after I improved [...]
Browse Our Bookshelf
Anyone who’s been a reader for some time knows that Jini Patel Thompson doesn’t recommend exclusive vegetarianism. For anyone new, you can find out why at her blog: www.listen2yourgut.com/blog/gut/dangers-of-vegetarianism-vegan-long-term That aside, a diet featuring plenty of fresh, organic vegetables is one of the best things [...]
Recipe – Gingered Apple & Carrot Soup
This soup is quite easy to prepare, easy to digest and verrry nourishing! Great for cold, blustery Winter days to warm our cold, tired bones! Ingredients: ● One quart organic/free range non-medicated chicken stock (ideally homemade) ● One large organic/local onion ● 1 lb (approx. [...]
How to Have Good Communications with Your Healthcare Provider
In the March 2008 issue of Good Health is Real Wealth, I provided some useful strategies for getting excellent medical care. However, no strategy for getting top-notch treatment will work well if you don’t have good communication with your provider. In this article I’m going [...]
Yeast and Inflammation
Inflammation is a HOT topic, an Internet search on the word turns up an overwhelming 37.5 million hits. Journals of inflammation, inflammation research associations, and drug companies are all scrambling to find a drug to treat this scourge. The cover story blazing through flickering flames [...]
The Journey Is The Point
Below is an email I received from one of my readers named Abby (not her real name). I am so thankful to her for writing in and sharing truthfully about her healing journey. I wanted to share it with you, because I think her letter [...]
ResolveColitis.com or Back To Health Minerals
Question: This past year we purchased materials from your company for our 23 yr. old son, who was diagnosed with IBD-UC in 2003. This past summer, we came upon a website: www.resolvecolitis.com (“Back to Health Minerals”) and wondered whether Jini (or your company representatives) have [...]
