Many years ago, I was visiting some family friends who’d just bought a new house. I wanted to bring them some kind of present, but we lived in very different worlds. I was scraping by getting ready to start medical school. They were legitimately rich people for...
This is the overview to a multi-part series. You can skip ahead to posts about facial care, skin care, hair care or soaps. In this series of posts, I’m going off on a slight tangent to discuss something that’s health related, but not directly about food,...
It’s super weird to write about wildfire smoke in the second half of October. It’s even weirder to need to write about wildfire smoke in the second half of October. Hopefully, the fall rains will have truly begun by the time you read this. But as I write, the smoke...
When the days are bright and warming but it’s not quite time yet for fiddling around in the garden, it might just be time to focus on edible and medicinal weeds. On one such day, I came across some beautiful dandelion roots – and it is a perfect time to start...
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This is the second post in a series on healthy body-care products. Jump to the overview, facial-care, hair care or body soap. As a naturopathic doctor and herbalist, I work from the idea that skin is a reflection of the internal ecosystem. If you’re...