I’ve always been fascinated by astronomy. I followed the progress of the new Mars explorer, Curiosity, as it made the journey to Mars and then safely descended to its surface earlier this year. Now Curiosity is sending back photographs of dried up river beds giving evidence that a large amount of water existed on Mars […]
Author Archives: Dr. Larry Hill
An Interesting Case: Tooth Erosion
The 22 year old man in my dental chair had all the signs of a specific condition. He had severe erosion of the inside surfaces of his upper front teeth. Almost a third of his enamel had been eroded away. I had seen young women patients with the condition I was tentatively diagnosing in my […]
Dr. Weston Price-An Early Nutrition Pioneer
Dr. Weston Price and his wife, Florence, traveled around the world in the mid 1930’s searching out people living a primitive lifestyle. Dr. Price located groups which were still eating a diet that they had been consuming for thousands of years. They took a series of photographs of the various people, measured a number of […]
Obsolescence
I have purchased several antique items over the last few years and as I use and admire these items I can’t help but wonder: is anything being built nowadays with planned endurance? Is anything being built with the intention of the items being around and being used a hundred years from now or even fifty […]
Sleep
Why do we sleep? What are the health effects of lack of sleep? How much sleep should we be getting? How can we sleep better? Ambitious for one page but let’s try to look at all these questions. Sleep is essential for regular functioning of the body and the brain. Sleep apparently plays a […]