Category Archives: Editorial Insights

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 […]

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 […]

Some days start out so promising. The coffee is good. The traffic is cooperating. You’re in a singing mood for no particular reason. But then the road beneath you turns to quicksand. The guy in front of you stops suddenly, and now you’re exchanging insurance info while dabbing at the hot coffee splashed all over […]

We were excited to introduce the first-ever Back to School for Doctors Video Contest this year. We asked you to take 60 seconds to tell us about a Selene River Press product that helped to support you or your patients in some way and you did not disappoint! We were astonished with the outstanding quality […]

Many of us are angry and frustrated at the uncertainty, fear, and vulnerability we feel—not just from having a new virus introduced into our environment but from the sense that we are being “handled.” That we might be mistaken as weak and willing to give up our self-governance, our autonomy, and authority over our health […]

UPDATE November 30, 2021: A2 Milk Company under scrutiny again for crooked business practices. “The A2 Milk Company is the defendant in a proposed class action lawsuit that claims it misleadingly advertises its products as able to ease digestion for those who experience discomfort from drinking milk.” Read on! If you actually read the book […]

No other event has done more to bring the teachings of the greatest nutritionist of the twentieth century, Dr. Royal Lee, to a modern audience than Mark Anderson’s Back to School for Doctors. Every year this annual seminar manages to transform Dr. Lee’s body of work into a relevant, living tradition of holistic nutrition that […]

If you want to be a good downhill skier, there are certain items you need to invest in. Skis, yes. Lessons, preferably. A warm hat. (Some people ski naked, but they always wear a hat.) Well, if you want to be healthy (and a stronger skier), there are six items you need to invest in: […]

SRP Founder Stephanie Anderson Interviews Diana Hermann of Zi Zai Dermatology. The skin is our hazmat suit for planet Earth. But how does it protect us from invasion by invisible microbial life forms? To start with, the skin needs two substances to be present in the GI tract: lactic acid and acetic acid. The body […]

Look in the mirror. What do you see? Is your image scary or pleasant? Hopeful or dreadful? Capable or faking it? Whether you see yourself as smart or dumb, as gorgeous or hideous, as confident or meek, there’s one skill that, if you master it, will truly show you just how smart, successful, sexy, and […]

This recipe might come in handy one day for you guys out there. More a method than a recipe, it was invented by my husband. I call it Mark’s Heap O’Bacon. You’ll need a large fry pan and a package of bacon. Cut the package open. Remove the lump of bacon. If it’s still frozen, […]

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. —Terry Pratchett I started out in life thinking old people were just people who were old. Some were gruff and aloof, like my maternal grandfather who made no attempt to speak to me in English or even his native Italian. Some were doting and […]