The human body is not a machine. One way we know this is the more you use your body the better it works. Use-it-or-lose-it is a mantra to live by. You might have heard of knees, hips or discs wearing out but there is usually more going on than over-use. Toxic burden and/or a shortage of nutrients are likely the main culprits preventing your body secreting...
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For 25 years I had a global job that was rewarding and fascinating as I worked daily with colleagues in every timezone. Being based in California had its advantages as I could easily catch Europe at the start of my day and Asia at the end of my day. It became second nature to me and the rhythms of my week did not seem a...
Read MoreI wouldn’t be writing to you today on EmmaTekstra.com if it weren’t for Dr Jerry Kartzinel. Dr Jerry is a pediatrician whose youngest son regressed into Autism after routine childhood vaccinations many years ago. After his wife suggested “you broke him so you fix him” he dedicated himself to preventing and healing autism and other neurological disorders in children. I was blessed to come across...
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I love Waze! I’m rather geographically challenged so rely heavily on Waze to find my way to places even when they are quite close or find my way home from anywhere I ended up. A few years ago we were on a family vacation in Costa Rica travelling around the whole country in a rental car. The roads there are famously bad but we found...
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I’ve been talking about bugs a lot lately. Not the kind with wings or that you might find crawling under a rock but the teeny tiny kind that we can’t see without a microscope. Maybe because they are so small we don’t think of them very often but it turns out these microscopic organisms may hold the key to health or sickness in all of...
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Jesus is special not just because his arrival set the start of the Common Era – our calendar used the world over re-started from the time of Jesus’ birth – but it is the widespread impact Jesus has had on all aspects of life independent of religious endeavors. There is no other person in history who has had such a wide impact. Not a religious...
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Awayday may be a British expression. Apologies to my American readers if this doesn’t resonate. You might call it a retreat but that sounds extensive, or an escape but that sounds negative. I just needed to get away from all my commitments and re-assess my priorities after leaving my corporate job of 25 years and starting my own gig. An awayday more typically involves a team...
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