Vibrant Gal and I grind our coffee beans at Lazy Acres. It's a health food supermarket in Santa Barbara. Perhaps if we were hardcore coffee connoisseurs, we'd pound our beans instead of grinding them. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (The Physiology of Taste, 1825) wrote … "According to a... Read More

The millions of people who take unnecessary stomach drugs (exposing themselves to a Pandora's box of mild to severe side effects) might benefit from the creative use of hot and cold water. Potable water is also a heck of a lot cheaper than all those potent purple pills for pacified people. Wil... Read More

Christina Ponsot asked Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) how she could lose weight. She'd done Solar Nutrition, fifteen-day fasts, etc., and nothing had worked. "I'll tell you, but you're not going to like it," Adano warned. "Well, tell me anyway," Christina insisted. "Don't drink any fluid... Read More

Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) was recuperating at the Royal Victoria Hospital, 689 Park Avenue, Montreal, Canada, from his fall off a roof, and his best friend Sonny brought him some figs to eat. A seed in one of them took root in his intestines and caused a hemorrhage. Adano was rushed acros... Read More

We really do have rocks in our heads. We have concretions known as "ear rocks" (otoliths) in our ears, and concretions known as "brain sand" (Corpora arenacea) in our pineal glands. But the bulk of the rocks and sand in our bodies are in the intestines (including the gall bladder, liver, and p... Read More