In the last post, I said sleep is becoming even more essential. This is why.

For the past few decades, we have been handed the magic bullets of antibiotics to cure all that ails us. Then we were sent back to work. No problem.

Now, the magic is running out of power. Many older antibiotics are useless against resistant strains of bacterium. The few new ones that do work sometimes are apparently loaded with serious, almost incredible side effects that can include deafness, severe joint pain and psychosis leading to suicide (1, 2)… in addition to the usual damage that nearly all AMA drugs do to the kidneys and/or liver, and the rest of your body.

Let’s shift gears for a moment. We know that only the body can heal the body. Everything we do is just trying to help it heal itself, giving it extra building blocks, or trying to take some negative factor out of the way. Bandaging does not heal a wound. It just keeps dirt out of it. (more…)