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like the kidneys in your body, which help the pee-pee to filter out
poison.”
I gave up demanding scientific explanations because I got the same
answers all the time: “I’m not a doctor, how should I know? I know
things because I saw them, and my mother and my grandma told me
about them. If you want to know why, go to school and learn; I can
teach you only what I know.”
I realized much later how much they knew, when I studied anatomy
and physiology. In a simplistic way, without scientific explanation,
they knew how the human body works, and what it needs to stay
healthy. Grandma warned people about their diets and bad habits,
and she recommended certain foods or herbs to them. Over time she
learned who was receptive to her advice in our small town; those
people came to her regularly. The skeptical ones she ignored.
I didn’t understand most of what I heard and unconsciously learned
from them, until I went to nursing school and later when I studied
alternative medicine.
I learned that there is a connection between cherries and migraine,
the auto-immune disease called Systemic Lupus that grandma called
the body think itself as enemy disease, and the different physical and
mental issues of people having different dietary and nutritional
requirements. She must have done everything right as she lived to
ninety-eight and she was healthy all her life.
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