Your Turn

Hi, Everyone!

I started this blog as a place to keep my story straight.  I see from the traffic report that about 700 people a day are now reading and a hundred or so have signed up for the email alerts.  I'm amazed.  I'm just not sure how many of these 'hits' are real people and how many are just spam-bots or web-crawlers searching for my bank account numbers or trying to get personal information for marketers.  I have a feeling the real number is around 100-150 people a day looking, but even that number amazes me.  I would like to ask that every 'real person' reading this leave a comment, even if it is just to say 'hi'. 




When I was a little kid, I loved my Weekly Reader and I still love on-going stories, like the "Adventures of Lew and Charlie" in the only magazine I still subscribe to, Fur-Fish-Game  (if anyone wants to learn how to hunt, fish, and live off the land, FFG is a must).   I'd kind of like to turn this blog into a place where you can just come and read for a while and then move on.  Maybe spark some new thoughts.  I don't have all the answers (yet).  I'm also going to play around with my new camera and try to put some cool pictures up that weren't just stolen from other people, like this one I took yesterday:

Mount Foraker, Alaska Range

 I doubt I will ever become a "real blogger" and I'm not interested in becoming well-known for this blog, but I do think I have things to say you might like to read.  Some of my best real life friends are  people I met through blog comments and various forums.  Like minds seem to somehow attract each other.  I'd also like to open this space up to anyone else who wants to write a blog post, just let me know, it's easy to do.  I'd love to see personal reports on health, fitness, or any hacks you have found that work (or don't work).  I intend to stay away from politics, religion, and drama, so if that's your thing--sorry! 

I came up with the name Vegetable Pharm as a way to complement Dr. Grace's Animal Pharm.   Grace has a great place where she explores the intricacies of the broken gut.  My focus will be more on the science behind the broken gut, broken metabolism, and poor health in general by looking at the foods we eat and the reasons we eat them. If you are trying to heal a specific problem, go check out Dr. Grace's blog, she has great information there.

I had originally intended to call this blog "Pica Nation."  I even had a cool mascot picked out:

Pica

But there's another kind of "pica":

Pica

Pica is the seemingly unnatural urge to eat things like dirt, clay, chalk, glue, and God forbid...raw starches.  They used to perform lobotomies on these poor souls, but now we're learning that pica is just a natural way that our second-brain, the one in our intestines, gets us to eat some vital nutrients we need as humans.  I think that many of the things we desire to eat today are a form of pica...chewing gum, breakfast cereal, candy, bread, tea, salad, and much more.  I hope to explore this notion in greater detail in the coming year.   


OK, your turn.  What would you like to see?  Are comments important?  What about frequency of blog posts?

Anyone interested in cancer prevention?   

Oh, and if anyone is using my blog-roll list to keep up with their favorite blogs and want any added to it, just let me know.  I love this feature, it saves me time in clicking on my blogs looking for updates.

Hope to hear from every person that reads this to the end, even you lurkers who lurk EVERYWHERE and never, ever comment--you know who you are, just give an anonymous nod.  

Thanks,
Tim