Yes, coconut oil is good for you! When I spoke to my dad on the phone the other night, I could hear from his sexy, deep voice that he had a chest cold. I know what you’re thinking: “Big deal! It’s cold and flu season everywhere!” Except my dad is in his nineties and his… Read more »
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Pizza N Cheesecake
Pizza ‘n Cheesecake ‘n Melon, Oh My….. by Bera Dordoni, N.D. It’s Friday night. It’s been a long week. You’re tired, hungry, and want a drink to relax. You respect your body, so you only buy the best foods and beverages to fill it. You know you eat and drink all the right things: organic… Read more »
Benefits of Noni Juice
Years ago, when Gilbert ran up to me at a BASTIS Foundation lecture and excitedly claimed that I Have a Choice?!, my book on building/reviving the immune-system, had saved his life, you’d think I would have been thrilled. Not. Since he was overweight and pasty-faced, he wasn’t exactly the picture of health. Then he explained… Read more »
Management Shmanagment
Management Shmanagement! By Bera Dordoni, N.D. When Dr. Chris Dyer, Executive Director for UNM Gallup, asked me to come on board to teach classes on diabetes management in an effort to help lower the rate of this epidemic, I asked him why teach management of a disease that is often curable when the goal is… Read more »
Made from a Plant
Made From a Plant or In a Plant? I love to eat. I know some people can take it or leave it, but I really, really love to eat. But even people who don’t really enjoy eating cannot live without food. I mean, that’s just the way life is. The need for food is a… Read more »
Let’s Do It
LET’S DO IT THE FOOD BABE WAY! She limped up the pathway to my office, clutching a Big Gulp with one hand and her stomach with the other. “I’m Lila,” she said, as I ushered her inside. “Eddie said you can gimme something for my pain.” After removing the Big Gulp and settling her down… Read more »
Knowledge is Power
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER… Be Proactive NOW! This is a true story. Some of the names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent. ** My dad, Julio Ortiz, always a jock: High school football hero. College football hero. WWII B-24 navigator who survived a crash landing in Wales with nothing worse than a broken… Read more »
Kick It Up
Kick it Up Yet Another Notch! by Dr. Bera Dordoni, N. D. “Dr. Bera, you’ve just got to see this new video all about the amazing new discovery that can help someone lose a ton of weight!” Another “greatest find in the history of mankind.” It might be raspberry ketones, or the latest rediscovered… Read more »
Juice It Up
Juicer, a scruffy-looking dog, walks into the neighborhood watering hole, steps up to the bartender, and orders a carrot juice. “We don’t do carrot juice here, ya mutt,” said the bartender with annoyance. “How many times do I have to tell you and your friends? This is a bar. We sell booze and sodas. Who… Read more »
Green Power
Summertime… and the livin’ is easy. Or not, if you’re a farmer, and have to be up at 5 a.m. every day to make sure your plants are fed and nourished so you and your family and your local community can be fed and nourished. Farming is hard work, but it’s what keeps us alive… Read more »