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01/12/2026

How Many Traditions aligned with Natural Hygiene

Before science had names for processes, people used tradition.
Traditions were not random habits. They were repeated behaviors that worked. They were kept because communities noticed that life flowed better, people recovered more easily, and bodies coped better when certain rhythms were respected. Over time, meaning, religion, and symbolism were layered on top, but underneath it all was something very practical: how to live in a way that placed the least strain on the human body.
Natural Hygiene is not a modern invention that contradicts tradition. It explains why so many traditions existed in the first place. When you strip away superstition and ceremony, what remains are behaviors that reduce stress, conserve energy, support elimination, and allow the body to self-regulate. Below are everyday traditions from cultures around the world that quietly align with Natural Hygiene principles.
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Eating from the ground or with hands
Many cultures traditionally ate seated on the floor or used their hands. This slowed eating, improved posture for digestion, and naturally limited overeating. Natural Hygiene values ease and simplicity in digestion.

Stopping eating at sunset
Eating after dark was traditionally rare. This gave the digestive system extended nightly rest and aligned eating with daylight activity.

Seasonal fasting or food restraint
Lean periods, religious fasts, and feast-and-rest cycles reduced digestive load and gave the body time to restore itself.

Monotropic meals
Meals were often simple and repetitive. One staple at a time. This reduced digestive complexity and internal stress.

Chewing slowly and eating quietly
Slow chewing and reduced conversation during meals supported calm digestion and nervous system regulation.

Silence or rest after meals
Many traditions included sitting quietly after eating. This allowed blood flow to remain in the digestive organs rather than being diverted to activity.

Spring cleaning
Annual deep cleaning improved air quality, reduced dampness, and refreshed living environments. Environment has always been central to Natural Hygiene.

Ritual bathing and water immersion
River bathing, sea dips, and seasonal washes supported circulation, skin elimination, and nervous system calm.

Sleeping in darkness
Before artificial lighting, nights were truly dark. This deeply supported restorative sleep rhythms.

Midday rest or siesta
Rest during peak heat reduced overexertion and conserved energy.

Barefoot walking
Natural foot movement supported joints, balance, and circulation.

Morning and evening sun exposure
Daily exposure to gentle sunlight regulated natural rhythms without overstimulation.

Cold water splashing
Mild cold stimulation encouraged circulation without forcing the body.

Air-drying bedding and clothes outdoors
Fresh air and sunlight reduced indoor stagnation and dampness.

Seasonal clothing changes
Gradual adaptation to temperature supported resilience rather than dependence on artificial comfort.

Communal living and shared meals
Reduced isolation lowered chronic stress and emotional pressure.

Children self-regulating sleep and hunger
Children were allowed to sleep when tired and eat when hungry, respecting internal cues.

Elders setting the pace of life
Communities moved at human speed rather than mechanical speed.

Illness as a rest period
When ill, people were relieved of duties and allowed to rest fully.

Firelight evenings and quiet nights
Low stimulation evenings supported nervous system down-regulation.

Gratitude rituals to land and water
These traditions reinforced moderation and respect for natural limits.

Tradition was not about being old-fashioned.
It was about remembering what the body needs.
Natural Hygiene simply brings clarity to what humans once lived by instinct.

01/11/2026

Rethinking Vitamin B12: The untold story

Most people are told that vitamin B12 deficiency means one thing: take a supplement. Tablets, sprays, injections. Problem solved. Except it often isn’t. Many people supplement for years, see little change, and are left confused as to why their levels stay low or their symptoms persist.

This video, unpacks why B12 supplements so often don’t work, why the issue is rarely a simple “lack” of B12, and what’s really going on inside the body when B12 shows up as low. This isn’t about selling another pill. It’s about understanding digestion, absorption, toxicity, and why the body may be deliberately down-regulating B12 use as a protective response.

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01/10/2026

The #1 Myth About Protein: “More Is Always Better”

Walk down any supermarket aisle and you’ll see it everywhere.
High-protein cereal. High-protein snacks. Even high-protein drinks.
We’re living in the middle of a protein gold rush.

The most pervasive myth is this:
If some protein is good, then more protein must be better.
From a Natural Hygiene perspective, this idea has quietly caused more strain, confusion, and unnecessary fear around food than almost any other nutrition belief.

Here’s why: The body has a natural ceiling
The body does not work on an endless intake model. Protein is not fuel. It is a building material. Once repair and maintenance needs are met, excess protein does not magically turn into more strength or better health. It becomes metabolic waste that must be neutralized and eliminated.

Think of digestion like a building site. You need enough materials to repair tissue, but dumping huge piles of bricks onto the site doesn’t speed anything up. It clutters the space, slows the work, and creates extra clean-up.

In Natural Hygiene, efficiency matters more than quantity. When digestion is calm and unburdened, the body uses amino acids far more effectively than when it is overloaded.

The real issue with high-protein obsession isn’t only the protein itself, it’s what gets pushed aside to make room for it.
When meals revolve around dense protein sources, people often lose:
• Hydrating foods
• Easily assimilated carbohydrates
• Mineral-rich fruits and greens
• Digestive simplicity
These are the very conditions the body needs to repair tissue efficiently. The result is often heaviness, fatigue, fermentation, acidity, and inflammation, not strength.

The recycling myth nobody talks about
The body is not dependent on constant incoming protein. It is highly intelligent and highly efficient. Old tissue is broken down and reused. Amino acids are recycled. This internal economy works best when the diet is clean, simple, and non-irritating.
Fruit, leafy greens, and whole plant foods provide complete amino acid profiles in forms that support hydration, elimination, and cellular function. Strength comes from healthy cells, not from eating more dense material than the body can comfortably process.

The health-halo problem: “High protein” on a label does not equal health.
Many protein-fortified products are heavily processed, dehydrating, and irritating to digestion. Adding isolated protein to a damaged food does not make it biologically supportive. Real nourishment comes from foods the body recognizes and handles with ease.

The bottom line: Protein is essential, but it is not scarce, and it is not something the body struggles to obtain when basic needs are met.

The real questions are not:
“How much protein am I getting?”
They are:
“Am I digesting well?”
“Am I eliminating efficiently?”
“Is my diet supporting ease rather than strain?”

When those conditions are present, protein takes care of itself.
Less fear. Less force. More intelligence.

If you want practical tools to reduce stress, improve energy, and support your body naturally, I’m here to help.

01/08/2026

What Did Humans Do for Pain Before Pills Existed? And Why Did It Work?

Before pills, pain wasn’t something to be silenced. It was something to be listened to. For most of human history, pain was understood as a signal that the body needed different conditions, not a chemical override. Instead of blocking sensation, people changed their environment and behavior so the body could resolve the cause.

They rested. Deeply and unapologetically. When injured or unwell, activity stopped. Energy was conserved so it could be redirected into repair. Today we call this “doing nothing”. Back then, it was intelligent biology in action.

They used heat, cold, sun, water, breath, and stillness. Warmth relaxed tissues and improved circulation. Cold water reduced excessive inflammatory pressure when appropriate. Sunlight supported rhythm, circulation, and tissue repair. Slow breathing reduced nervous system tension. None of this numbed pain. It reduced the need for pain.

They ate less or not at all. Digestion is one of the most energy-expensive processes in the body. When people were injured or sick, appetite naturally dropped. This freed up energy for healing. Pain often softened simply because the body was no longer overloaded.

They slept in ways that supported structure. On the ground. On firm surfaces. In natural positions. This allowed the spine, joints, and muscles to rest without constant distortion. Many modern pain issues are structural stress problems created by how we sit, sleep, and move, not deficiencies of medication.

They allowed pain to complete its message. Pain rises, peaks, and resolves when the conditions causing it are removed. When we suppress it with drugs, the message doesn’t disappear. It goes deeper. Acute pain becomes chronic pain. Signals become conditions.

So why did it work?

Because the body already knows how to reduce pain when it is not interfered with. Pain is not the enemy. It is feedback. When the cause is addressed and the body is supported with rest, simplicity, and the right conditions, pain naturally diminishes.

Pills didn’t replace an old system because it failed.
They replaced it because listening takes patience, and suppressing is faster.

The question isn’t “How did humans cope without pills?”
The better question is “What did we lose when we stopped listening?”

I help people at midlife and beyond improve their health with gentle bodywork and practical lifestyle guidance. Reach out when you’re ready.

01/08/2026

How We Poisoned Our Children Into Food Addiction

For most of human history, we did not eat constantly. We ate when food was available, often once a day, sometimes less, sometimes more. We feasted, then we stopped. Hunger came and went. The body rested between meals and used that time to repair, clean, and regulate itself.

Food was not entertainment.
It was not emotional support.
And it was not constant.
That changed when we stopped trusting the body, especially in children.

The shift often began the moment a child left the breast. Instead of allowing natural hunger cues to guide eating, we introduced schedules, portions, distractions, and encouragement to eat “just one more bite.”

Anyone who has watched a baby in a high chair repeatedly spit food out has seen the body’s intelligence in action. That is not bad behavior. That is regulation. The body is saying: enough.
Instead of listening, we overrode it.
We distracted.
We aero planed food into children’s mouths.

We turned eating into a performance rather than a biological process.
Biologically, this matters far more than people realize.

Every time food enters the body, digestion demands energy, blood flow, water, and nervous system activity. When eating is constant, the body is never allowed to fully complete digestion, rest the digestive organs, or redirect energy toward growth, repair, and internal cleaning. In children, this creates continual stimulation rather than natural rhythm.

Frequent feeding keeps blood sugar elevated and unstable. This trains the body to expect constant intake, dulls natural hunger signals, and shifts regulation from internal awareness to external cues like time, boredom, emotion, or availability.

Over time, the nervous system begins to crave stimulation rather than nourishment. This is how appetite becomes addiction.

The digestive tract becomes irritated rather than rested. The liver remains in a near-constant state of processing.

The lymphatic system struggles to clear waste efficiently. Instead of short periods of digestion followed by long periods of repair, the body is locked into a semi-digestive state from morning until night.

Children do not lose their instincts.
They are trained out of them.
Years of overfeeding, constant snacking, sweet stimulation, and emotional feeding reshape the body’s expectations.

By adulthood, not eating feels abnormal, hunger feels like an emergency, and fullness no longer signals stop. What began as care becomes a biological pattern of dependency.

This is not about blame.
It is about awareness.
The body has not changed.
Its needs have not changed.
Only our habits have.

When we understand this, we can stop fighting the body and begin restoring the natural rhythm it has always known.

If you’re longing for steadiness and ease in this season of life, I’m here to support you through BCST and Natural Hygiene.

01/07/2026

Why the Body Resists Sudden ‘Healthy’ Changes

It often surprises people, but the body can push back when someone suddenly decides to “do everything right”.
A complete dietary shift, changing meal timing, altering sleep patterns, restructuring daily routines, and removing long-standing habits all at once. From the outside it looks positive and supportive. From inside the body, it can register as instability.
The body is not opposed to change, but it is deeply oriented towards predictability. Biological systems thrive on rhythm. Digestion, sleep, elimination, energy output, and mental clarity all depend on familiar patterns.
When too many of these patterns change simultaneously, the body must divert energy away from maintenance and into adaptation.
Adaptation is not free. It requires energy, coordination, and time.
Digestive processes must recalibrate to new food types and timing. Circulatory and nervous activity adjust to new daily demands.
Hormonal rhythms shift as sleep and waking patterns change. If the body already has limited reserves, this sudden adaptive workload can overwhelm its capacity.
This is why people sometimes feel worse after making changes they believe are “healthy”. Fatigue, irritability, digestive discomfort, sleep disturbance, emotional volatility, or a return of old symptoms can appear.
These reactions are often misinterpreted as detox, weakness, or failure. In many cases, they are simply signs that the pace of change exceeded what the body could comfortably integrate.
From a biological perspective, stability signals safety. Familiar routines allow the body to relax into efficient function. When stability disappears abruptly, the system prioritizes protection and conservation. It slows non-essential processes, reduces output, and becomes cautious. This is not resistance for the sake of resistance. It is intelligent self-regulation.
Natural Hygiene does not ask the body to perform. It removes obstacles and allows natural function to re-emerge. This process works best when changes are layered rather than imposed. One adjustment is allowed to settle before the next is introduced. The body is given time to recognize that the new conditions are not a threat.
There is also a psychological component that mirrors the physical one. When everything changes at once, attention narrows. People begin monitoring themselves closely, analyzing every sensation, and questioning every fluctuation. This constant observation increases internal pressure, which further taxes the nervous system and slows adaptation.
Gradual change does something important. It builds trust. The body learns that new conditions are consistent, predictable, and safe. Once trust is established, energy that was previously held in reserve becomes available for regulation, maintenance, and long-term improvement.
Health, from a Natural Hygiene perspective, is not achieved through intensity or control. It emerges when interference is reduced at a pace the body can accept. When change respects timing, the body does not need to resist. It simply adjusts, and then continues on its own.

I offer gentle, holistic care for those moving through the deep transitions of midlife and beyond. You’re invited to connect whenever it feels right.

01/05/2026

Healing Is Not Linear and That’s a Good Thing

Most people expect healing to look like a straight line. Day by day, week by week, steadily getting better. When that does not happen, they assume something has gone wrong, that they have failed, or that their body is not capable of healing. Instead of trusting the self-healing process, they become anxious and fall off track or try to find quick fixes. But real and deep healing almost never works like that.

We are taught to believe in timelines. Take this for two weeks. Rest for six weeks. You should feel better by now. Social media before and after stories reinforce the idea that recovery is predictable and smooth. When the body does not follow that script, fear creeps in. Doubt follows. And people often abandon what was actually working.

In reality, healing moves in waves. There are periods of improvement followed by plateaus. Old symptoms may resurface. New sensations can appear. Energy rises, then dips. This is not the body malfunctioning. It is the body reorganizing, reprioritizing, and working through layers in the order it deems safest.

You see this all the time in real life. Someone changes their diet and feels lighter, clearer, and more energized for a few weeks, then suddenly experiences fatigue or digestive discomfort again. Another person finally starts sleeping better, only to notice emotions surfacing that had been numbed for years. Someone else reduces stress and notices old aches returning briefly, as tension patterns they were unconsciously holding begin to release. These moments feel discouraging if you expect constant improvement, but they often signal that the body now has enough capacity to address deeper layers.

What many people call a setback is often a sign that deeper work is happening. The body may finally have enough safety or energy to address something it has been compensating for years. When those compensations drop away, symptoms can temporarily increase. That does not mean regression. It means the body is no longer holding things together at the surface. This is why doing more rarely speeds things up. Creating space often does.

Many people slow their healing by pushing through fatigue, adding more routines, forcing exercise, or chasing motivation. These actions send the signal that demand is still high. The body responds by conserving rather than repairing. Listening, simplifying, and reducing pressure often does far more than another protocol ever could.

A more accurate way to view healing is as a spiral, not a straight line. You may revisit familiar symptoms, but with more awareness and less intensity. Sensitivity often comes before strength. Depth comes before stability. Each phase prepares the ground for the next.

If your healing does not look neat or predictable, that does not mean it is not happening. It means it is real. The body knows the order. The work is not to control the process, but to stop interrupting it.

Your healing journey is uniquely yours. If you feel called to begin, I’m here.

01/04/2026

Why does fruit calm some people… and completely destabilize others? 🍌🍓

This question sits right at the crossroads of confusion in natural health, and it’s one of the main reasons people end up frustrated, doubting their intuition, or jumping from protocol to protocol.
You’ll see one person thrive on fruit.
Clear-headed. Calm. Warm hands. Steady energy for hours.
Then you’ll see another person eat the same fruit and feel shaky, nauseous, bloated, anxious, foggy, or strangely “wired but tired”.
Same food. Same species.
Very different response.
So what’s really going on?
Most explanations stop at surface-level answers.
“Too much sugar.”
“Blood sugar issues.”
“Candida.”
“Adrenal fatigue.”
These labels might describe what is happening, but they don’t explain why it’s happening in the first place.
The real variable isn’t the fruit.
It’s the terrain the fruit is landing in.
Fruit is fast, light, hydrating, and stimulating. It doesn’t sit heavily in the digestive tract, and it doesn’t require complex breakdown. But it does rely on the body having enough internal stability to receive it.
When the body is rested, hydrated, well-mineralized, and not constantly under pressure, fruit feels calming, clarifying, and deeply nourishing.
When the body is depleted, overloaded, inflamed, or running on stress chemistry, that same stimulation can feel too much. The nervous system reacts. Blood sugar wobbles. Old residues start moving. Sensations become louder.
In that situation, fruit isn’t doing something wrong.
It’s exposing what’s already there.
This is where so many people get misled. They assume the food is the problem and remove it, rather than asking why the body can’t currently handle something so simple and biologically familiar.
That’s also why extreme opinions form so easily: • “Fruit heals everyone.”
• “Fruit is dangerous.”
• “Fruit should be avoided during illness.”
All of these positions miss the deeper truth.
The body doesn’t follow rules.
It responds to conditions.
Change the conditions – rest, hydration, simplicity, rhythm, reduced stimulation – and the same food can produce an entirely different response.
This is also why healing is never about copying someone else’s diet or protocol. Two people can eat the same foods and have opposite outcomes, because their internal environments are different.
There are no universally “bad” or “perfect” foods.
Only foods that meet the body where it currently is… or don’t.
Understanding that difference removes fear, self-blame, and confusion. It shifts the question from “What should I eat?” to “What does my body have the capacity for right now?”
That’s where real healing begins.
Does fruit calm you, challenge you, or has that changed over time?

01/03/2026

The Science of Staying Grounded While Driving Instead of Road Rage

Driving stress in Canada is a physiological load: low visibility, icy roads, wind noise, and cold temperatures activate the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). This elevates adrenaline, cortisol, and electrical signaling between the heart and brain — the same cascade that can fuel aggression, impulsivity, and road rage.

A vehicle is a grounded conductive system, especially in provinces like Alberta. The car chassis is metal, a conductor that maintains continuous electron contact with the Earth through tires, road moisture, snowmelt, and ion-rich winter road salts. Research on earthing/grounding confirms conductive contact can discharge excess electrons, reduce cortisol, decrease inflammatory stress signaling, and increase heart-rate variability (HRV) — the most validated biomarker for emotional regulation under stress.

Winter conditions add another variable: cold exposure increases vagal tone, activating the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). When your body is grounded in the seat, hands on the wheel, and breath slowed into long exhales, your autonomic system shifts from charged → calm before emotional escalation forms.

Road rage is the mind trying to vent a body that stayed electrically overloaded. Grounding stops the cascade at the source — the electrical system. When charge discharges into Earth first, there is no excess left to combust into rage.

Fresh fruits, like apples earn a seat in the loop for people navigating stress. They are rich in potassium (electrical nerve conductor), magnesium (neuro-electrical stabilizer), vitamin C (collagen + fascia repair essential), vitamin E, fiber, and antioxidants that reduce oxidative electrical stress load — supporting smoother signaling between brain, heart, and connective tissue after stress.

Hydration is part of grounding science, too. Snowmelt water films and road-salt ions increase conductivity and electron mobility. After grounding, hydration completes the electron exchange circuit — discharge → hydrate → stabilize.

A winter-adapted provinces like Alberta stress regulation loop where electrons discharge into conductive cold surfaces, hydration restores the medium, and fruit stabilizes nerve conduction before old emotional coping circuits escalate.

Snowy-State Grounding Micro-Loop

1. Hands on wheel = conductive grounded contact
2. Long exhales (6–8 sec) = vagal + ANS downshift
3. Body awareness = impulse interrupt
4. Eat 1–2 apples post-stress = electrical nerve stabilization
5. Hydrate = circuit complete

You’re not suppressing the storm — you’re leveraging the biology.
The environment tests you, but the loop trains you.
You ground the body, hydrate the cells, stabilize the nerves, and skip the rage.

If your body is asking for softer, more natural support, I’m here with Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Natural Hygiene.

01/02/2026

Raw cabbage and grapes

Raw cabbage and grapes is a simple but surprisingly complementary combination, both nutritionally and energetically.
Raw cabbage is dense in structural nutrients. It provides vitamin C, vitamin K, folate, potassium, calcium, sulphury compounds (including glycosylates), and plenty of insoluble fiber. Cabbage is a deep intestinal cleanser. Its fibrous structure stimulates peristalsis, binds waste, and supports bowel tone. The sulphury content is especially associated with tissue repair and cleansing of stagnant material in the digestive tract.
Grapes, by contrast, are light, watery, and highly hydrating. They are rich in natural sugars (glucose and fructose), potassium, manganese, vitamin C, polyphenols, and resveratrol (especially in red and purple grapes). Grapes act more as a solvent food. They help dissolve waste, thin lymphatic congestion, and provide quick cellular energy without taxing digestion.
Together, the combination works because they balance each other:
Grapes soften and loosen accumulated waste and mucus
Cabbage provides the bulk and mechanical sweep to move it out
The sugars in grapes fuel the nervous system and muscles, while cabbage supplies minerals and fiber.
High water content from grapes offsets the dryness of cabbage fiber
This pairing is often well tolerated when eaten raw, slowly, and in a calm state. It is particularly useful for people focusing on digestive cleansing, bowel regularity, and general detoxification without heaviness. If someone has very sensitive digestion, chewing the cabbage thoroughly or lightly massaging it can make the combination gentler.
Grapes do the dissolving, cabbage does the clearing, and together they support elimination, hydration, and mineral replenishment in a very natural way.
My preferred way to eat is to part chew some cabbage and then pop a grapes in there. It's delicious.

As the new year opens its quiet door, I invite you into a space where your body can exhale, your heart can soften, and your whole being can remember its natural rhythm.
Join me for a restorative journey into Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Natural Hygiene — two gentle, profound pathways that help you return to clarity, vitality, and inner steadiness.
This is an invitation to begin the year not with pressure or resolutions, but with listening.
Listening to your body’s wisdom.
Listening to the subtle tides that guide healing.
Listening to the simplicity that restores balance.
If you’re longing for a year that feels grounded, spacious, and aligned with your true nature, this is your doorway.
You’re warmly invited to step into 2026 with presence, gentleness, and the certainty that your body knows the way.
Let’s begin.

12/29/2025

Soil depletion and nutrition

The issue of plants not having enough minerals is a common objection. The problem is, people fail to think logically about the situation.
Plants require a healthy terrain to live, thrive and reproduce. Just like humans do. When a plant is not given all of the minerals it needs in the soil you end up with an unhealthy plant. Same with if its other needs are not met, like water or sunlight. The plant might be deformed, it might fail to produce fruit, it might simply wither and die.

So if the soil was deficient, the fruit would never be born.
It is true that around the world we have depleted the soils with our poor agriculture practices. We have created deserts and dust bowls of vast swaths of land. But what isn't true is that foods will grow in these depleted soils.
A fruit is no different then a human, in that it must have its needs of life met in order to maintain and reproduce itself. This is true of all life. For a plant, the soil it sits in is its diet.

So, if the fruit has been born then the soil was sufficient to provide for the needs of that particular fruit. If the soil was too deficient then the fruit would not be able to create its chemical structures out of the chemicals found in the soil. It would not be able to build its structures without its basic needs of life being met by the soil. So, to produce a deficient fruit would be impossible.
We only require tiny amounts of vitamins, minerals and other trace chemicals that are found in fruits. We store all of these elements for future use and use only a fraction of what we take in. Much of what we use is recycled over and over again so we only need to replace a tiny fraction of what we actually use. What we do need a lot of though, is water and sugar/glucose. Water is required to keep every cell hydrated and to dilute acids. Sugar is required to run every cell. We need our water and sugar combined with vitamins, minerals and trace chemicals as is found in our natural foods.

As for the gardening, soil can be rebuilt at any time. This is why Organic gardeners use compost. We rebuild the soil every year to make sure there is plenty of everything for the plants to thrive. So as long as we are re-mineralizing the earth in natural ways the plants will thrive and have all they need to maintain and reproduce themselves.

The soil depletion theory is based on flawed studies and assumptions. There are no reliable studies that show that our soil, thus our plants, nutrients are lacking. The studies that the idea of lack of nutrients in plants were based on a limited number of nutrients (studied calcium, but not the other nutrients) and are filled with assumptions. Studies have also been done showing that the same field can have the same crops showing various levels of nutrient levels and that they average out to about the same as what they are "expected".

It is widely reported that the declining nutritional value of food is due to soil depletion. Is our modern food really significantly less nutritious? Is soil depletion the cause? Claim: Our fruits and vegetables are less nutritious today than they were 30 to 50 years ago. Or, you have to eat ten t