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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. 7