5 Questions for @eco-alex! Kirtan, Miso & Eco-Communities - And the Value of the Innernet!
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Huge miso fan here. I grew up in Monterey Park, a suburb of L.A. where a high percentage of our neighbors at the time were Japanese and Chinese, and I grew up eating lots of Asian food.
I went through withdrawal when I moved to Tampa Bay, and even more so now in Tennessee, but at least I have a local reliable source of organic miso paste.
Are you aware of the so-called "miracle hospital" during WWII?
The short version is that there were two hospitals within the area of the blast zone in Nagasaki, when the second atomic bomb was released there, on 9 August 1945.
One hospital had adopted an essentially typical Western diet, and saw horrific symptoms of radiation poisoning in its patients and staff, as was to be expected.
The second hospital, St. Francis Hospital, by contrast, which was even closer to the blast radius, was run by a doctor who insisted upon a traditional Japanese diet for all patients and staff, including traditionally fermented miso soup.
The patients and staff in this hospital did not exhibit the expected symptoms, despite many on the staff continuing to venture into the worst-affected areas of the blast zone to bring back survivors in need of medical treatment.
Those survivors suffered symptoms in varying degrees, which ultimately came down to whether they had been consuming miso regularly before the blast, or only once they had been brought back to the hospital.
For obvious reasons, St. Francis Hospital in Nagasaki came to be known as "the miracle hospital."
In the 1970s, the Japanese government funded a clinical study which showed strong evidence of miso's strong ability to protect against oxidative damage from radiation exposure, especially when made with sea vegetables, as is traditional in Japan.
Many cancer patients all over the world are now advised to begin taking miso a couple of weeks before beginning radiation treatment and chemo.
Pretty fascinating.
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Wow! Time
To make some more miso soup! Thanks for sharing that i didnt know!
My grandmother used to make her miso soup as part of her diabetic diet. I never realised how curative it could be. Tome to look into it more and see if I can source some miso paste.
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Great interview and lovely to get to know you, @eco-alex better!
Interesting about the innernet to be so in touch and connected. I see where I have used it at times but I've never really set out with the intention of using it for a way of connecting with people. Let's give it a try now -sending you good vibes!
oooh, he sounds a nice guy that @eco-alex! interesting answers too! ;-)
THanks for sharing my words with everyone xx <3
He sounds like a really lovely guy, doesn't he? ;D
It's been good to get to know you a little more.
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I met him & can vouch he's the real deal!!... a great listener, supporter & damn handy in the kitchen. Nowhere did the article mention he's a web guru though. Sweet article giving.a sneak-peak into a beautiful soul.
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Such a pleasure to count @eco-alex as a personal friend. Lovely interview.
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@ecotrain, Great to know about you brother. And the most important channeling is inner channeling because we don't have any permanence on this planet we are here to pursue different path of experience to expand our soul and whatever we are, we are from inside.
@naturalmedicine, Keep bringing these kind of mind opening pieces team.
Stay Blessed.
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An absolute pleasure to present @eco-alex, and acknowledging his support of Natural Medicine with absolute gratitude.