ABOUT
We're here to share our experiences with chronic illness & our solutions.
so, what're the solutions?
Hint: None of them come from Pharma. Here’s a big one:
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
-Hippocrates
Sure, easier said than done, but it’s possible & comes with no serious side effects.
My wife & i both grew up suffering from a multitude of "common", chronic childhood & adult illnesses, both enduring this cycle:
"Sick"
Doctor
Drugs
rest
"Healthy"
this cycle was not acceptable to us, so we spent years systematically removing our reliance on the allopathic, pharmaceutical paradigm.
"Sick"
“SICK” is the body’s natural elimination process – clearing toxins, a pathogen, bacteria, fungii. The more action taken in daily life to remove toxins from food, clothes, household products and maintain overall nutritional health, cardiovascular health, mental health, etc., the easier this process will be and the less “sick” you will feel.
Doctor
My hat is off to anyone attempting to care for others on a daily basis. Breakthroughs in medical sciences and procedures are mindblowing… But a doctor who quickly prescribes drugs over checking/correcting nutrient levels, stress levels, activity levels, etc, is a pharmaceutical salesman, not a doctor. With the multitude of health markers in which we can measure, one thing’s for sure: Nobody’s body is lacking in pharmaceutical products. Health is created outside the lab, within each of us.
Drugs
Laundry list of side effects. Massive money-makers. Bribes. Fraud. These products warrant informed consent for a reason. They are a choice.
Rest
Kind of a no-brainer across the board. When you’re not feeling well, REST. That, more than anything will have you back to prime-time in no time. Rest the mind as well as the body. Fear or anxiety over an issue will only exacerbate the situation.
"Healthy"
Healthy is a relative term. For us, healthy is being free of pharmaceutical products and relying on ourselves and our knowledge to thrive through the body’s natural detoxification processes related to toxins & organisms prevalent in our environment, creating a stronger, more vibrant vessel.
resource Sections
Many pages will have a certain amount of resources at the bottom of the content. These resources are articles, studies, etc. which pose relevant or intriguing points.
Sections will look like this…
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Title of article or study
Excerpt from article or study.
* Our comments, conclusions, opinions.
This site is currently under construction and will continue to be updated regularly.
The majority of the content is created by me – Hi, I’m Will – along with much sharing of information, consultation, and contributions from my wife. I’ve been designing & developing web sites & web apps almost as long as my wife & I have been together – appx .20 years. We’re appx. 40. What can I say? We like each other. We’ve been researching & refining our health and lifestyle for some time now, observing drastic improvements in all of our prior chronic conditions, as well as dealing with new challenges along the way, crunchy-style. We seek only the continuation of learning and growth we’ve experienced together over the last couple decades.
Suffering the toll from years of antibiotics, steroid creams, drops, inhalers, etc., forced us to explore “the why” – the cause of our issues, and discover indelible solutions.
We’re not perfect. We’re not happy all the time, healthy all the time, or even crunchy all the time… but we enjoy being in control of our health, learning about the body & mind, and constantly questioning what we know. Things change, science changes, but properly nourishing the body & mind – that will never change.
Cheers to all you Happy, Healthy, Crunchy folks! And to those of you recently discovering your inner crunchiness 🙂
Much love to you all.
– The Crunchy Fam
At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes — an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.
– Carl Sagan