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Aphrodi-Tea: The Elixir of Aphrodite

Embrace the Elixir of Lovers in the Spirit of Aphrodite It’s Valentine’s Day, and honestly, the older I get, the more I love the charm of cheesy holidays. One of my presents today was a lovely, beautifully crafted tea mix from the awesome Homegrown Herbs here in Portland, Maine. If you’re ever in the area, Homeegrown Herbs is a must-visit destination. I haven’t tried this particular tea mix yet, but just from the look and aroma of it, I can tell it&rsq …

Feb 13, 2011 Ryan Wade

Repairing and Rejenerating with Ho Shou Wu

Repairing and Rejenerating with Ho Shou Wu For the past year or so, since recovering from a serious illness, I've been focusing on a lot of Yang herbs to regain and build my vitality, but I've also started to notice some serious signs of aging. My once oily skin had become dry and prone to wrinkles and skin flaking, and my high metabolism and propensity for lean muscle and low body fat had begun to change and I started getting softer around the edges. Reading Michael Tierra's book The Way …

Feb 09, 2011 Ryan Wade

Hyperion Herbs: Hormonal Health Elixir Recipe

Hyperion Herbs: Hormonal Health Elixir Recipe Another fantastic video from Brandon over at Hyperion Herbs , this one called Hormonal Health Elixir Recipe. I just cannot get enough of his videos; I'm so thoroughly inspired and impressed with the work he is doing through his YouTube channel HerbGardner00. The world needs more people like this, who are truly in it to spread wellness through knowledge. I'm putting an order in first thing tomorrow morning! Check out the video below, then follow …

Dec 01, 2010 Ryan Wade

Detoxing and Detoxification

Detoxing and Detoxification 10/29/2010 UPDATE While I wrote this post last night, today in the New York Times Fashion Magazine, I read an article called " The Juice Cleanse: A Strange and Green Journey", about juice cleansing/fasting, using a popular protocol from Blue Print Cleanse. I found this article particularly fitting because the author, Judith Newman, sites personal guilt as her reasons for wanting to cleanse, stating both her age and her body weight as motivating factors. This is …

Oct 28, 2010 Ryan Wade

Hcg, Dieting, and Self Love

Hcg, Dieting, and Self Love This is a repost from Doula Right Thing that stresses a particular point that I think needs continual addresses: the lack of self-love in our society. Have you all heard about this? Human chorionic gonadotropin (aka hCG, the hormone your body produces when pregnant, the presence of which urine pregnancy tests are testing for) is being popularly used as a weight loss supplement. To understand how this works, we need to look generally at the role hCG plays during …

Oct 19, 2010 Ryan Wade

Long Time No Update

Long Time No Update Hey there Internet World, Just want to apologize that it's been so long since my last update. I've been really busy with some exciting things, including a total site redesign over at RAW Forest Foods. It's my goal to be able to make information as accessible as possible, and I think that the new site does a much better job at getting the info out there about pine pollen. I'm also adding a page dealing specifically with Andropause, though this page is still under development …

Oct 17, 2010 Ryan Wade

Anti-Estrogenic (and Other) Effects of Ginger + Recipes

Anti-Estogenic (and other) Effects of Ginger + Recipes I've already mentioned on this site, at RAW Forest Foods, and at other sites, what a huge role that diet plays in excess estrogen in the male and female bodies. I've focused on soy and hops, as they are the major diet related contributors to elevated levels of estrogen. I want to take the opportunity now to address a similar issue: What foods will lower high levels of estrogen? Instead of focusing on the negative, we're instead focusin …

Oct 17, 2010 Ryan Wade

Tooth Health and the Soy Connection: What You Need to Know

Building Tooth Health (and a new understanding of our teeth) I've been highly interested in tooth health since I became vegan in 2003 (which I'm bifurcating from now). A few references to the work of Weston Price introduced me to the idea of teeth as living parts of the body--a concept that I have been slow to understand. Since then, I've seen a bit of strange deterioration of my teeth. I say strange because while I have cavities and a bit of enamel loss, I have 0--yes, that's right, zero--dec …

Oct 09, 2010 Ryan Wade

Radio Show on Low Testosterone in Women and Men Explained

Radio Show Dealing Specifically with Low Testosterone in Women and Men Your Own Health and Fitness is an excellent show out of California, dealing with all things health and nutrition. If you're a fan of listening to quality radio and podcasts, check out there site and listen to all there shows. An awesome resource. I just finished listening to a show specifically on how low levels testosterone negatively affects men and women. All stuff I already knew, but it is really fantastic to hear ever …

Oct 03, 2010 Ryan Wade

How Your Search for Happiness Keeps You from Being Happy

How Your Search for Happiness is Keeping you from Being Happy Anthony Anderson, over at Raw Model, puts it perfectly, that if we want to live in paradise, then we need to be creating that paradise all around us (sorry Anthony for that interpretation/paraphrase). I want to use the idea of creating paradise to talk about happiness. We are definitely moving here into fall. For me, fall is a time of change, change of willingness and, at times, change of unwillingness. With this change, fall i …

Oct 02, 2010 Ryan Wade

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