bette dowdell

Flaxseed: The Ticket to Where You Don't Want to Go

Bette Dowdell Fish oil's good for you. Everybody says so. Yeah, fish oil, that's the ticket. Well, what about all the warnings about mercury in fish? Okay then, flaxseed's good for you. Everybody says so. Yeah, flaxseed, that's the ticket. Beg... Read >

One-Diagnosis-Fits-All Medicine

Bette Dowdell Here's the scene: You go to the doctor dragging your patooty behind you. Your body got fat, but your hair got thin. Overwhelmed by a whole new definition of tired, you find yourself doing beached whale impressions while life goes to po... Read >

The Fluoride Fraud

Bette Dowdell Enough with the fluoride already! Communities began adding fluoride to our drinking water based on "scientific" studies-which turned out to be bogus-claiming fluoride would protect our teeth from cavities. Based on the same "science," com... Read >

The Endocrine System's King of the Hill

Bette Dowdell Problems of the endocrine system are everywhere, often unacknowledged and untreated by most doctors. People talk freely about the thyroid, and they should; it's estimated 40% of us have thyroid problems. Adrenal fatigue is in style-and ug... Read >

Is Your Hand Lotion Doing You In?

Bette Dowdell The incidence of thyroid disease doubled in the last thirty-or-so years. Auto-immune diseases, which relate to the endocrine system, are skyrocketing. So, too, are diseases of the brain, such as autism, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer D... Read >

Thyroid Problems

Bette Dowdell Back in the olden days-say 1960-doctors diagnosed thyroid problems by asking about symptoms, then working to alleviate them. Simple system, that. And it worked for the 20% of the population with flaky thyroid glands. Ah, but then blo... Read >

The Cause of Constant Fatigue

I've been dealing with an underperforming pituitary gland most of my life-possibly from a seemingly minor head injury when a drunk driver hit my parent's car during my eleventh month. However it happened, the deal is this: When the pituitary ain't hap... Read >

Earning a Praise and Worship Brown Belt

Bette Dowdell Pity the poor novice who innocently walks into a ‘with it' church to worship. They expect to hear a little music, perhaps a reading from the Bible and somebody talking about God. But in the ‘Church of What's Happnin' Now,' these ... Read >

You Can't Get There From Here

Bette Dowdell A man stops to ask directions, only to be told, "You can't get there from here. If you were in Freeport, you could get there, but you can't get there from here." So he asks how to get to Freeport. "See. That's the hard part. You can't... Read >

Why Satan Got Kicked Out of Heaven

Bette Dowdell God created Lucifer, now known as Satan, as one of the three top angels in Heaven. Lucifer had responsibility for the angels assigned to worship, while Michael leads the warrior angels who oppose evil and unrighteousness, and Gabriel guid... Read >

PlanetUrine.com

You know life is not all you hoped it might be when you find yourself spending time at www.planeturine.com. Pray let me tell you a story of staggering to triumph through, over and around adversity. Once upon a time a girl named Bette thought it good to... Read >

Learning Pain's Lessons

by Bette Dowdell I talk to pretty much everybody. Starting conversations with strangers is my normal modus operandi. I mean, why stand in a line mute, an island unto myself, when I can have a perfectly lovely conversation with somebody I haven't yet me... Read >

The Terrible Consequences of Conformity

by Bette Dowdell All kinds of people push conformity. But why? Fitting in may sound harmless, but it leads to all kinds of misery. We need to talk about this. Teachers extol fitting in as a form of crowd control, pointing to the most passive kid in ... Read >

Raising Kids: The Death Spiral Days

by Bette Dowdell Anybody who's been around kids knows about death spiral days. Tell me this comes as news, and I'll say you haven't been paying attention. They happen in the best of families. And who knows how they start? A day begins like any other d... Read >

Get Your Dreams in Gear

Some say, "Good things come to those who wait." It's a funny thing, though. Good things almost never come when waiting's all that's going on. We shouldn't let our hopes soar sky-high if all we do is hang out. Success won't drop in like an uninvited guest.... Read >