You're right, I knew it had those properties, as do so many other natural agents. I didn't realize it was that powerful, though! I didn't know lung cancer patients couldn't handle ginger, either.

There was a thread here on the benefits of parasites & "pathogens." I think I haven't been giving that as much attention as I should. I wonder if I should use less ginger in our juices perhaps. Now that I think about it, I forgot to add lemon rind and ginger to yesterday's batch of juice and my digestion was improved last night. Maybe I've been overdoing it. I've been trying to keep us from getting the flu and - it seems - killing our "little buddies" in the process

I have a good mushroom. That was a test batch.

A sliver of raw ginger root killed 16 oz of kombucha culture in 12 hours.

I had added it to a test batch for flavor. I wasn't expecting it to kill the culture.

Kombucha culture is bacteria + yeast

Wow, you are so right!

I'm reading Price's book and just finished a chapter where he describes the spontaneous healing of teeth with improved diet.

I wonder how many cases of cancer are reversed naturally and the person never even knew they had cancer at all.

surstromming

Welcome !

she's cute and look healthy

her picture here

many women on the 811 have stopped menstruating

I don't want to fan the flames, but I think we should be realistic.

Extreme diets do not tend to yield good results - as goodsamaritan points out, they are too rigid - it becomes the tyranny of the mind subjugating the body that I ranted about in another post.

I appreciate the humanity on this forum and hope we can remain kind and moderate in the best interest of all.

Fair skin is an advantage where there is a less sunlight. Fair skin absorbs more vitamin D from the sun, so people with dark skin have a harder time getting necessary vitamin D in colder climates.

This is the explanation I am familiar with, that the change occurred due to an adaptation along the lines of natural selection.

Where there is snow there will be sunglare - and tanning of exposed skin even in "winter" or overcast conditions.

Beef tenderloin sashimi dressed with marinated garlic and side of marrow

Welcome and congratulations!

Recently completed a 2 km ocean swim after 6 months of learning how to swim with correct technique.

This is exciting! "Open water swimming" is a sport that we've investigated because pool water is so damaging. Some kids in a neighboring HS developed respiratory problems and lost the hair on their bodies because of high chlorine levels in the school's pool - I guess they didn't maintain it like they should have. We've been trying to utilize a natural lake nearby but found that it really does require a different set of mental skills because you can't see the bottom (with that handy line painted on it) and because the water is colder. Add waves and it's a whole new puppy.

We haven't been able to find any clubs or groups that train or do open water swimming events here. We have few bodies of water here and little creativity, it seems. There are clubs in a few cities and in coastal communities.

Is this a sport that is common in Australia? What certain skills are required and what was the experience of ocean swimming?

I hope your symptoms improve. Sometimes we have to stray to realize where we need to be   

Best always!

sunny side up eggs

or soft boiled, I was thinking the same thing

ceviche
hoe
carne cruda
sashimi
carpaccio
steak tartare
conch
kibbeh nayeh
poke
oysters
chee kufta
crudo
kitfo
poisson cru
mett
sakura
yukhoe
kuai
gored gored
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravlax

Want to throw this out:

In a pantheistic/pagan/taoist/ecological/etc world-view, there is no subject/object as with the monotheist worldview.

A monotheistic worldview is good-bad, me-them, life-death, with the requirement that the thinker take a position in order to function in the paradigm.

In the pantheistic worldview, life is a fluctuating network of relationships. Plants are as equally "alive" as animals and are not considered in isolation from the larger network. Death is interwoven with life. This is a more accurate worldview, as evidenced not only by mere observation but also by investigations in physics, biology etc. Mythology provides many examples of how the pantheistic "collective" operates in human understanding.

(I owe a former member here a great debt for recommending the author Fritjof Capra, which broadened my perspective and lead to many rich investigations.)

I bring this up because it is (I believe) impossible to find the "right" answer, the "right" diet, etc. There are only configurations and tolerances. There are natural corrections that guide decisions toward optimal health, if we can stay aware of them. I think it's much easier to care for yourself if you adopt a more authentic, and more ancient, paradigm than the Cartesian & monotheistic mind/body split which defies personality integration.

Relax, be aware, be alive.