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Tess Lawrie should be on everyone's short list. Of her work she says, "My vision is of a healthier world in which science and learned wisdom are brought together to empower people to take responsibility for their own health." This is health care for enhancement, rather than medical care for dependence.
There are two sides to growth: the push and the pull. The pull is the guide, counselor, coach, therapist, mentor, spirit, or angel. The push is the pain, disability, container, limitation, illness, or demon. Both are creations, both need to collaborate.
Preventative medicine is health care; restorative medicine is sick care. Preventative medicine means staying well and striving for improvement. The mainstream medicine never achieves health because it only focuses on removing the symptoms of what's wrong, not with making things right.
A practitioner and educator at both actionable and technical levels. Doctor V goes beyond the symptoms, spectacle, and noise on the mysterious issues of inflammation, immunity, gut health, and hypertension, along with general considerations of medicine, science, art, and culture.
The Australian view on why alternative education needs to become mainstream. My K-12 education taught me nothing more than the perversity and generally ineptitude of state education. Since I've taken my kids out of school they're maturing at twice the rate of their traditionally-schooled friends. There are two worlds: those who know how to learn and those who don't. This blog is about the former.