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Preserve your Harvest the Old Fashioned Way with Lacto-Fermentation
When I was growing up in rural Muskoka, my grandparents fermented all kinds of foods. This tradition served to preserve foods over the long winter...
Ancient Indigenous Practices for Healing During Challenging Life Cycles
The Indigenous Amazonian prophecy of the Eagle and Condor speaks of a time when all people walked together as one. There was one language spoken,...
Woodford Files: Top Therapies for COVID; Get Stronger with Plant-based Proteins; Guide to Organics
In the months leading up to the release of our Summer 2020 issue, we’ve seen some weird and wonderful trends emerging on the heels of...
Worldwide Nutritional Immunity – Why Everybody Is Taking Vitamin C
“I have not seen any ’flu yet that was not cured or markedly ameliorated by massive doses of vitamin C.” (Robert F. Cathcart, MD) The...
Beyond the Pandemic: Top 10 Ways to Create Wellness in Your Life
(Updated July 27, 2020) Now that the coronavirus pandemic is mostly under control in Canada, it’s time to consider the most effective ways to restore...
Garlic Medicine: Folklore Traditions from the Far East
(Updated July 1st, 2020) Through the centuries, people have either believed that garlic was divine or, with fanatical aversion, detested its very name. This well-known...
Nutrition for Autism: How Multivitamins and Folic Acid Can Lower Autism rates
(Updated June 30, 2020) In March of 2018, a report by the Public Health Agency of Canada estimated that one in every 66 Canadian children...
Spring Detox with Wild Herbs and Weeds
There are many ways to detoxify the body, and for a herbalist the favourite strategy involves medicinal plants. From my perspective, weeds and wild herbs...
Protected Group Immunity, Not a Vaccine, is the Way to Stop the COVID-19 Pandemic
“Sufficient doses of vitamin C and other nutrients such as vitamin D3, zinc, magnesium, and selenium lower the risk of developing viral infections, and can...
Are Prescription Meds Making COVID-19 Infections More Lethal for Seniors?
“In the torrent of information about COVID, one aspect of the crisis is conspicuously missing – the manner in which the medication burden people are...
Homeopathic Remedies for Common Menstrual Disorders
A menstrual disorder is an emotional or physical problem that interferes with a woman’s menstrual cycle, causing pain, unusual bleeding, delayed menarche, or missed periods....
The Collective Wound of Not Being Seen and Heard
After about 20 years of my own inner healing work, and listening to many clients tell me their life stories, I’ve arrived at the perspective...
Ask the Doctor: COVID-19, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and New Research on Natural Treatments
Dear Vitality, I’ve been reading your magazine since your Dec. 1999/Jan. 2000 issue. It’s beyond impressive – what tremendous good all your experts have done....
Surviving and Thriving in a World Full of Viruses – 17 Best Strategies
The current COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of fear, and must be taken seriously. Yet potential pandemics have always been a reality of life....
