The Comedian PHD Blog

It’s hard to sometimes look back and realize how much change gone through whenever you’ve gone through change.  The new stuff becomes standard, and the old stuff seems so far back you don’t really remember it being that way.

Thus, I’m sitting here eating a Thai Cocoanut Milk soup — that I made.  And over in the crock pot is simmering an all-day bone broth that I’ll use for a bunch of other flavorings in this and that.

For those who cook cook, none of what I’m doing adds up to much .  But for the guy who sat with his kids wondering burgers or grilled cheese, noodles or full-on spaghetti — this is pretty awesome.  And the soup is even edible.

Whoosh.  I am in my own future.

Ok, so every Monday I’m going to post a summary of the Body Puzzling I’ve done the week before, and a little preview of the week to come.  I’ll bullet-point this sucker for easy reading.

So, last week’s high-lights:

()  On Sunday went to a lecture sponsored by the Austin Primal Living Meetup, featuring Dr. Amy Myers, who specializes in “Functional Medicine” (which she defined as trying to figure out the root body causes of problems, not just fix medical symptoms).  Her take is that our bodies are in constant states of inflammation due to problem foods, environmental chemicals, nutritional deficiencies, inherited disorders, etc. — and that an awful lot of our diseases will go away if we find the root cause and either eliminate the cause, or boost the body to power up what is lacking.  Good stuff, smart person.

() Which dovetailed annoyingly well with the fact that my kids were sick all last week, apparently with a virus that’s going around.  Light fevers, headaches, stomach-aches, sore throats, lethargy.  It’s hard right now after gaining so much new pseudo-knowledge about health issues — i.e., that a strong immune system properly fed, with all underlying infections taken care of, and not hampered by incoming food toxins and nutritional deficiences — should pretty much kick the crap out of incoming viruses like that.  Maybe.  But at least knowing that your kids are being given all the body support they need, instead of always worrying that you’re handicapping their bodies with pretty much all the food you’re stuffing into their little kid pie-holes — knowing that you’ve got things aligned pretty well for your kids would be nice.  But I really don’t have things aligned yet.  So this week, setting out to give some highly visual and well-thought out structure to the kid’s menus, and the kids health resources.  Going to have to go all rational on this stuff, see if we can make real progress.

()  And, three, did the free Wednesday Body Puzzle show for the first time last week.  Interesting.  Finding that the information itself is so evocative — new, logical, useful, intriguing — that the comedy is almost in the way.  People were raising their hands to ask questions.  It’s becoming more of a super-powered lecture, flavored with comedy, than a super-powered standup show, laced with tidbits of info.  Interrresting.  We’ll see.