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In 2016 the campaign slogan of the disastrous Hilary Clinton ticket was “I’m with Her.” While it would have been nice to finally have a woman in the White House I was not even a little bit surprised when Trump won the Presidency, but to this day Hilary Clinton refuses to accept any responsibility for her loss to Trump, which is especially egregious considering she actively funded his campaign
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In 2014 when I first found out there were five tumors on my thyroid gland it was a great relief. I had been struggling mightily with my health for several years, been to five different doctors, and this was the first time any of them had gotten any tangible test results and not the rapidly tiring, “you have elevated white blood cells, but you’re fine.” At the same time it seemed like it might be too late. Five tumors?
So, I am NOT a clean person. I mean, I am—I like a clean house. I find a clean kitchen to be very calming, and there are few pleasures as wonderful as beginning to cook a great meal in a clean kitchen. But cleaning for me has always been a source of serious anxiety.
Ever since recovering from cancer I have only gotten sick twice—a cold once and a more serious viral throat infection which took about a week to fully resolve. But in spite of having been recently very ill with cancer and thyroid disease, before and during which I would catch the flu every year and which took near a month each time to fully recover, I have not gotten it once since recovering. This is no accident, as some of the various techniques I use to help improve my own health
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Seafoods are sources of nutrients like strontium, iodine, and bromine which can’t as easily be found as abundantly in terrestrial foods. This is because many elements are highly water soluble and collect in runoff, ending up in the ocean and lakes. Specifically, mollusks like clams, oysters, and mussels can be very high in B12, zinc, strontium, selenium, and bromine.
Salad has become such a polarizing food these days it can’t be discussed without also discussing various health and dietary ideologies along with it. Often used as a substitute for other foods when people on are restrictive diets, salad is (or can be) a very useful and delicious way to get the healthy nutrition we require as human beings.
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Saying the last decade has been chaotic is quite the oversimplification, as many of us have been through quite a lot of stress, upheaval, loss, and inconvenience. Several years prior to the pandemic my life fell apart as I became sick with cancer, abandoned by the love of my life, and began recovery from alcoholism and addiction. Yet even in the midst of that tumult I naively thought every year that good times must be just around the corner,
In 2016 the campaign slogan of the disastrous Hilary Clinton ticket was “I’m with Her.” While it would have been nice to finally have a woman in the White House I was not even a little bit surprised when Trump won the Presidency, but to this day Hilary Clinton refuses to accept any responsibility for her loss to Trump, which is especially egregious considering she actively funded his campaign
Diet is a complex topic with as many opinions as there are foods to eat, and part of the problem is deciding what is food and what is not food or, more specifically, what is appropriate for the human diet. Because of our long history of agriculture our ancestors have bred a long list of unique plants and animals which do not actually exist in nature which provide plenty of available nutrition for our needs as human beings...
Many years ago when I used to go to the gym there was one lifter who was apparently quite wealthy (and extremely insecure), who would park his Maserati on the curb out front instead of in a parking spot like a normal person, and was so roided out that his skin was literally purple from the lack of circulation. Obviously this kind of behavior originates from severe psychological trauma and feeling like he needed to compensate for many things and be big and rich enough to defend against any potential threats in his life, but while there are a few medically appropriate scenarios to use steroids, getting large muscles from their use is extremely harmful.
In 2014 when I first found out there were five tumors on my thyroid gland it was a great relief. I had been struggling mightily with my health for several years, been to five different doctors, and this was the first time any of them had gotten any tangible test results and not the rapidly tiring, “you have elevated white blood cells, but you’re fine.” At the same time it seemed like it might be too late. Five tumors?
As I neared the end of my twenties I began having very disturbing dreams and nightmares from which I would wake breathless and bewildered, and seemingly normal situations which for others might produce maybe a little anxiety would leave me wracked with crippling and debilitating panic. For instance when I was twenty-seven I was invited to a vacation on Fire Island…
In spite of my best efforts I caught COVID two, maybe three times during the pandemic. It was not fun but my symptoms only lasted less than 48 hours. Why? Because as a research scientist I already knew quite a bit about viruses and immunity and used several tools explained in my article “IMPROVING RESISTANCE TO CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) AND OTHER VIRAL INFECTIONS”
Seafoods are sources of nutrients like strontium, iodine, and bromine which can’t as easily be found as abundantly in terrestrial foods. This is because many elements are highly water soluble and collect in runoff, ending up in the ocean and lakes. Specifically, mollusks like clams, oysters, and mussels can be very high in B12, zinc, strontium, selenium, and bromine.
One theme which permeates my work is the element sulfur. I haven’t written very many articles in the blog section about sulfur because, in truth, I haven’t until more recently fully understood its purpose in the body and diet. Sulfur is clearly very important for our health and plays many roles in antioxidant function, detoxification, protein synthesis, and immune function
I live in an area of Salt Lake City, Utah which has a significant number of homeless people. There are all different types, from young people with tattoos hanging out and smoking to older men and women sullen and depressed and having a hard time getting around. A few days ago I passed an elderly lady sitting on a broken old chair outside a fast food chain. I gave her some peaches from my grocery bag and then went back into my air conditioned, secure flat…
It is well known the GOP plan for court packing has paid off, and captured the Supreme Court to force their religious ideology on the American people. And while the six Catholic judges currently sitting on the court are the ones who cast the deciding votes there is actually a greater reason why we are even in this situation in the first place which has also promoted the increase in hate crimes, white nationalism, anti-LGBTQI+ hatred, and anti-democratic movements we have been seeing growing in number and severity over the last few years, and it all comes down to Hillary Clinton.
In the 2008 Presidential Elections there was a powerful force at work behind the scenes which helped set the stage for future President Barack Obama’s victory and a complete sweep of congress by the democrats which resulted in a supermajority. One of the most surprising things about this victory was, in fact, the scope, coming off several cycles of Republican dominance it just didn’t seem like there were enough potential democratic voters in the whole country to deliver such a result.
There is a lot to debate about the politics of Ideology and the current Supreme Court’s rightward lurch and decades of political maneuvering by Conservatives to make America’s Institutions serve their agenda. Any institution gets its power not from the top but from the people who support it, and the mistake they have made is that very few people (around 25%) support overturning Roe vs Wade.
Six months or so after my attempt at suicide I went to live with my family in Hawaii. A few years earlier they had abandoned me in Utah and absconded to the island paradise after several very rough years on the mainland. We had lived in Hawaii for a few years when I was very little—the only time in my young life that any of us were really happy—
A plague has been infecting us for a long time now, and no I’m not talking about COVID. Loneliness is one of the most widespread afflictions burdening people today, and this is exceptionally ironic considering the sheer unfathomable amount of human beings alive on this planet. I used to be completely perplexed living in Los Angeles, a region of 12 million people, year after year continuing to suffer from crippling loneliness that plagued my life even as I socialized, dated, and successfully pursued my career.
In 2014 I came down with a mild case of thyroid cancer. I was actually elated when we discovered the tumors on my thyroid because for the last five years my health had been spiraling downward, and no medical professional had yet been able to tell me why, though my tests always came back as showing elevated white blood cell count.
A great deal of the current political and social climate is fixated on systems of economy and government and the nature of Democracy, Republics, Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism, with much of the left convinced that Democratic Socialism will fix all our problems and much of the center and right believing we currently live in a divinely ordained Capitalist Republic. All y’all are so, so wrong.
When I was a young man I lived in Salt Lake City during and after the 2002 Winter Olympic which, in preparation of, the city had put through quite a few changes to clean it up and provide public transport. One of the most important was the installation of a light rail line that went from the University of Utah to Downtown (and south to some other few locations).
So, I am NOT a clean person. I mean, I am—I like a clean house. I find a clean kitchen to be very calming, and there are few pleasures as wonderful as beginning to cook a great meal in a clean kitchen. But cleaning for me has always been a source of serious anxiety.
I was really surprised when I first learned about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, not only because I was only eleven when he retired from the Supreme Court and was not apprised of contemporary politics as an eleven year old, but that someone as progressive as Justice Marshall and the progressive act of appointing a black man to the court had happened before I was even born.
The personal coaching program is for anyone who would like a bit more assistance than what can be achieved through reading my book alone, but everything I will advise can also be read in my book, and anyone purchasing this subscription should first be familiar with my ideas and philosophy on health and nutrition.
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We begin with a simple questionnaire to which I respond with an email outlining my insights and ideas on how you can begin to improve your personal situation. This is not in any way a diagnosis of medical conditions, I am not a health professional in any way, shape, or form, and you are paying for my time and personal experience with certain health conditions which originates only from my own experience and no formal eduction, training, or certification. You are responsible for keeping me updated on your progress (or lack thereof) and any followups, queries, or questions. There are no refunds offered for any reason. So long as you are subscribed you have continuous access to my time and insight for continued updating or refining as needed. Cancel at any time. Just like my book the focus of my insight and advice is not on physical appearance but on overall health and wellness in ways which are often contrary to accepted mainstream ideas on fitness and health, and as such all health and medical decisions should be made under the supervision of a competent medical professional.
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This is the personal coaching program but also with an hour, web-cam, face-to-face session once a week for the duration of the subscription. We spend time chatting more in depth on a personal basis about your issues and possible solutions and therapies. Remember, it is your responsibility to keep me informed to your progress and submit any questions, queries, and followup as desired. You are not paying for any guaranteed results, medical advice, diagnosis, etc., only for access to my time and personal experience, and refunds are only given if cancellation occurs before scheduled sessions per billing cycle.
The Personal Inventory Program is a writing practice which helps you to diagram and analyze your life history in ways which facilitate complete and total emotional and mental healing from past traumas, issues from childhood, or behavioral difficulties which might be getting in the way of your goals and dreams. This therapy is detailed in my book The Perfect Child and is totally doable on your own and this is offered for anyone who would like personal instruction in this practice and includes three, one-hour, one-on-one video conference coaching sessions where I walk you through the practice of personal inventory and explain in detail how to accomplish the therapy effectively in your own life while helping to critique and guide you through the nuances of this very effective practice.
3 SESSIONS:
The first session we cover personal inventory and go through several example entries and discuss how this therapy works and the ways it connects to your personal life experiences to help resolve problems. You will then do work on your own before our second session in which we review and refine your personal inventory practice, then discuss and teach you how to do the second part which is the fear inventory which helps us deal with fears we have of things like dying, failing, or getting sick. You will then do homework on your own for both inventory practices before meeting a third and last time in which we review what you have written and go over any additional input you might need to do it more effectively on your own.
BENEFITS:
Direct benefits of the personal and fear inventory practice are: liberation from ruminating thoughts, no more obsessing over past events, gentler emotions, more balanced reactions toward people and events, clarity in relationships, increased ability to forgive those who have hurt you, an increased ability to stand up for yourself, ability to connect with mentally and emotionally healthy people, ability to make amends and repair damage to relationships, improved self-esteem, and reduction or resolution of mental health disorders which are not rooted in diet and physiology.
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This practice directly confronts the ego structure which blocks us from achieving a higher state of existence, so do not purchase if you are not willing to do serious work on yourself and confront difficult and challenging emotional resistance and requires personal work and introspection and only produces results as much as you are willing to sit down and perform the practice. Results do not happen without this effort nor a willingness to employ personal honesty and initiative. If you are willing to do this you will be able to use these tools to better your own life and heal yourself, and you are paying for my time in teaching this skill, not for guaranteed or promised outcomes which instead rely totally on your own ability and willingness to practice as instructed. No refunds are given after start of program because payment is for my time, nothing else. Refunds are offered before start of program.
Disillusioned with healthcare after a battle with severe health problems and few people with which to share my insights, I decided to start this blog and write a book for anyone who needs help with their own health struggles. On pondering my situation I one day realized that answers to our health can be found in our experience as a human animal—that while medicines and exotic treatments can sometimes be helpful they have not solved our health problems because they are not really part of our physiology, and this view informs all my work. Nathan is a resident of Los Angeles, CA by way of Utah, Arizona, and Hawaii, is gay, single, and 43 years old (in 2024 so I don’t have to keep updating my damn age). Nathan is not in any way a certified or trained medical professional and writes merely from his own personal experience.
Saying the last decade has been chaotic is quite the oversimplification, as many of us have been through quite a lot of stress, upheaval, loss, and inconvenience. Several years prior to the pandemic my life fell apart as I became sick with cancer, abandoned by the love of my life, and began recovery from alcoholism and addiction. Yet even in the midst of that tumult I naively thought every year that good times must be just around the corner,