LongeCity - Healing & Medicine

Only 15 percent of the decisions a doctor makes

everyday are based on evidence.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Robert Califf M.D. Director of Duke University's Clinical Research Institute

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Time magazine October 12, 1998)

Cultural assumptions are often the hidden rationale

underlying many scientific premises.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fatimah Jackson

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Professor of Biological Anthropology

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .University of Maryland

men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moliere

The microbe is nothing; the terrain is everything.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louis Pasteur

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and

he that is wise will not abhor them.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brillat-Savarin

. . . . . . . . . . . . . ."The Physiology of Taste" 1826

There can be healing without labels and labels without healing.

. . . . . . . . . . Luminosity

What you do not bring forth will destroy you.

. . . . . . . . . The Gnostic Gospels

A nutrient can be life-giving, useless or an irritant depending its the form.

. . . . . . . . . Luminosity

Does being thin resolve anything? No.

. . . . . . . . .Demi Moore

The binges are part of the diet.

. . . . . . . . . Luminosity

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