Let’s embark on a journey of discovery. A fact-finding mission, if you will. Together, we seek to answer the not-so-simple question: “Who owns organic?” I already know the answer because I wrote this. Then again, it’s an easy guess. I refer to the usual rogue’s gallery of malfeasance-y food corporations getting up to their usual […]
Author Archives: Heather Wilkinson
I am a lover of all kinds of merch. I hunt down postcards during vacations to big cities or little beaches. I adore keychains from lonely gas stations and crowded amusement parks. I will never pass on hoodies from rock shows or caps from baseball games. I love nerdy merch from museums and seminars as […]
I’ve got deep pockets. But before you romance scammers get too excited, you should know my deep pockets are not of the monetary kind. They are the kind of deep pockets your dental hygienist discovers, and then she snitches to your dentist, and then he comes to talk to you, while you are still wearing […]
“It is hard for most people to accept the colossal picture of dishonesty to be traced once we look into this matter of counterfeit foods. It is too late to act on the knowledge that this state exists once we become a victim of cancer, polio, heart disease, diabetes, or arthritis.” In 1956, Dr. Royal Lee […]
A peek at my calendar tells me that Independence Day, my third favorite holiday, is rapidly approaching. Have you noticed that independent thought is a bulwark of the Selene River Press Historical Archives? I sure have. It is an especially strong current in Dr. Royal Lee’s Applied Trophology newsletter, which he published every month from […]
I met my husband because of barbecue, yet barbecue almost kept us apart. I’ll explain. In the earliest years of the early aughts, I was going to school in Austin and working at a local institution called Artz Rib House (yes, with a z). By the end of a six-hour shift delivering heaping plates of […]
My mother’s mother grew up on a farm in Utah. My husband’s mother grew up on a farm in Indiana. I grew up in a house across from an empty field, and my husband grew up in an old house by a cemetery. For us, no farms in sight. Instead, we have been passed down […]
Last week I needed to pick up a prescription from the pharmacy. My husband was home. I occasionally adore him, so I asked him if he needed anything. “Body Fortress,” he replied. “Vanilla.” That’s when I realized my mistake. To ask my husband if he needs anything from the store is to risk losing many […]
Here at SRP, we’ve been thinking about an old proverb. You know the one: Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime. Dixie Lee Huey’s The Nourishment Mindset is a bit like that proverbial fish: Nourishment can sustain you. But with a nourishment mindset, you […]
Practitioners, if you know Selene River Press, you know we have an expansive catalog of patient education materials to boast of. That’s because we’ve been at it since 1986, and from the start our goal was to help translate practitioner knowledge into a language patients can understand. With so many titles to choose from, focusing […]
Ever wondered how nutrients are taken out of a whole food and put into a whole food supplement? At least part of the answer involves smart people doing smart things—inventing, engineering, building, manufacturing. And they are at it again in Palmyra, Wisconsin. There, on the certified organic farms of Standard Process, Inc., exists what is […]
SRP has a gripe. And before we turn our attention to this month’s Product Spotlight, we’d like to discuss it. The issue? Practitioners whose reaction to the words “ongoing education” is a resounding…meh. You know who we’re talking about. Practitioners who are content—with the level of their patient care, with the pace of their referrals, […]
Being the new anything is hard. The new kid in class. The new member of the team. Or, God forbid, the uncoordinated newbie at yoga class. Now imagine the new patient who walks through your door. They have a lot to learn, and you, being the excellent holistic practitioner that you are, want to help […]
This month we’re shining our Product Spotlight on Why Your Doctor Offers Nutritional Supplements by Stephanie Selene Anderson with Mark R. Anderson, now in its fourth edition. Which begs the question…why does your doctor offer nutritional supplements? There’s not one answer; Anderson lays out an entire ecosystem of them. It begins once upon a time, […]
Psst…how’s your sleep? If you’re exhausted, you’re not alone. Millions of Americans, as many as one-third of us, are sleep deprived in one way or another, and it’s seriously messing with our health. The consequences of sleep deprivation range from the obvious (tiredness, mental distress, poor cognitive function) to the surprisingly dire (heart disease, diabetes, […]
Prenatal Nutrition and Birth Defects is an essential new booklet from SRP that tackles one of the most fundamental problems in today’s America: the continued genetic destruction of our progeny. In just a few information-packed pages, Mark R. Anderson connects the dots between abnormalities in the developing fetus (which are frequently revealed later in life) […]
Imagine preparing your family a slow cooked masterpiece on a cold winter’s night. Or whipping up your first batch of homemade kefir, yogurt, butter, or cheese come a leisurely weekend afternoon. Which would you rather do? Happily, there’s no need to choose. With Chef Phyllis Quinn’s Slow Cook Gourmet and Udderly Cultured at your disposal, […]
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride—author of Gut and Psychology Syndrome and creator of the GAPS healing protocol—is back with two more deeply researched and thoughtfully written books exploring the intersection between food and health: Vegetarianism Explained – An essential read for anyone following (or considering) a plant based diet. Dr. Campbell-McBride turns her focus to the value […]
We’ve got great news for holistic health providers: SRP has just added three new titles to our on demand series at Vimeo.com. That means you can watch the following essential presentations on any device. Anytime. Anywhere. A Review of Mark Anderson’s BTS 2015 Seminar: Cardiovascular Endurance, Performance & Maintenance – Dr. Michael Gaeta A Review […]
It’s not every day that a new book geared to new parents promotes an entirely new understanding of birth—yet that book is finally here, and it’s called Your Baby’s Microbiome. Written by Toni Harman and Alex Wakeford (authors of the award-winning documentary Microbirth), this book is an important read for would-be parents who want to […]