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Life beyond the Industrial Medical Complex

In this video we take you on a tour of the top 10 medicines that keep us outside the industrial medical complex. If you’ve never considered the following as medicines, we invite you open to this next half hour as we reveal our story of health and well-being, and why our family hasn’t required a medical centre or a doctor for many years.

Here’s the audio only,

 

and here’s the video version:

 

The key medicines we cover in this video are:

1. Ritual, ceremony & love
2. Barefeet, earthing & sunlight
3. Cold water immersion
4. Walked-for wild foods
5. Sleeping, nose-breathing & circadian rhythm
6. Fasting & listening to country
7. Home-grown food & kinship with soil
8. Fermented foods & honouring death & decay
9. Sauna to cook out winter toxins
10. Meaning making as creatures of place

As always your comments and additions are heartily welcomed.

Sending love, connection and good health to all who come here with an open heart,

Artist as Family x

Vitamin D – The lowest hanging fruit for Covid-era health, rarely picked

Hello Dear Reader,

We’ve been back for three weeks now and we are pleased to present our third video in this weekly Covid series, once again drawing on the vast medical commons that is so rich online. The first video uncovered conflict of interest in media reporting. The second drew on scientists with alternative analysis to what’s reported in the corporatised media. Now we are excited to share this third story with you as we believe it is essential information to hold in our community Covid toolkits. In this video (11 mins) we take a look at the overwhelming scientific literature pointing towards the importance of vitamin D in the unfolding Covid story, and the conspicuous absence of government health advice about vitamin D deficiency and its ‘predictor’ relationship to Covid-19 morbidity and mortality.

Well, we hope you enjoyed this video as much as we did making it. Please find below the articles we drew upon to make this video and please let us know what you think in the comments.

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/10/3596
https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/vitamind
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00513/full
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/103/4/1033/4662891
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7723676/
https://www.health.vic.gov.au/publications/low-vitamin-d-in-victoria-key-health-messages-for-doctors-nurses-and-allied-health
https://content.health.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/migrated/files/collections/policies-and-guidelines/l/low_vitamin_d_info-pdf.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26864360/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/expert-answers/coronavirus-and-vitamin-d/faq-20493088 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4018438/

We look forward to sharing our weekly videos with you, and some of the other things we have been up to now we are back home in Djaara Country.