Bugoy’s tailbone pain, his wallet and his upcoming marriage

I saw my brother during this Christmas vacation.  Happy to see him I gifted him with a copy of Dr. Henry Bieler’s book Food is your Best Medicine.  Also gifted him with a DVD of Food Matters.  Bugoy was jolly fat, as fat as I once was in 2001.  He doesn’t notice, just like most fat people don’t notice.  Someone from the outside must tell you and tell you point blank.  He is happy with the progress of his psoriasis, but I was not.  I told him I expected him to be totally clean by the end of 2008.  He still had some old barnacles, some scratching, and he still used some lotion.  Tsk tsk tsk…. [Read more…]

My sandfly bites are now mere scabs

In 1994 I was bitten by sandflies in the beaches of Boracay island.  I suffered for 2 years of what I recall as leishmaniasis.  The dermatologists were of no help then, they injected me with steroids until I got exasperated at the pain.  Then I was given topical steroids until it stopped working.  Then I decided then to do nothing and after 1996 my body god rid of whatever it was. [Read more…]

Sand fly bites, welts, Christmas feasts, egg yolk liver flush and itchy detox

This is an on-going blow by blow documentation of my sand fly bites – 20 plus bites – from Palawan – which may have infected me with protozoan leishmaniasis, malaria or who knows what exotic microbes they have there.  What is significant is I came down with a severe cold, mucus… can you believe it?  Being on a mostly raw paleolithic diet the whole year I have never gotten a cold… except after those 20 sand fly bites. [Read more…]