Tag: brain

Going Against the Grain: Our Baby’s First Foods

Followers of the Cheap Medicine Blog know that one of the cornerstones of vibrant health is access to and consumption of whole nutrient-dense foods.  It should come as no surprise then that choosing the first foods for our baby daughter would be going against the grain – literally and figuratively. Most Moms and Dads of […]

Home Remedy: Gut Remodeling

“All disease begins in the gut.”  These famous words spoken by Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, are more important than ever for us to observe.  Gut integrity and the health of the microbiome determine how our internal world is influenced by the external world.  The gut processes food and drink into the building blocks […]

Home Remedy: Cooking Oils

When it comes to choosing a cooking oil, it is best to stick with the fats and oils that have been in the human diet for hundreds of years.  Ask yourself, what did my great-grandmother cook with in her kitchen?  If she would recognize and use that oil or fat, chances are your body would […]