⚠️ WARNING this video includes worms and is NOT for the faint of heart. If you saw our last post, I talk about parasites in the caption. This incident actually happened while we were in Botswana this past Summer but we only shared it on our Bucket List Friends video : THINGS GONE WRONG IN AFRICA. 😰 Cali had been complaining of a pain on the top of his head but it just looked like a little red bump. The next day it had a white tip like a pimple but after showing our guides and a local medic nobody knew what it could be. Randomly, I texted a photo of it to my girlfriend back home and her husband recognized it as a boy fly! A BOT FLY!!?!?!! 😱 Have you heard of these??? Basically, 6 days prior, a bot fly bit Cali on the head and laid its egg inside his skin. The egg then hatched and the larva continued to live in his head and would have been there for ~20 more days until it was ready to crawl out and fly away on its own!! 🤯 It was late into the night when my girlfriend notified me it may be a bot fly so I woke up Garrett and with tweezers in hand said “you’re not going to believe this. I think the pimple is alive and we need to operate.” Those who know Garrett know he hates gross stuff like this but he went total Papa Bear mode and with steady hands, got it out! We didn’t know what to expect so you can imagine our shock and terror as that long work began to pull out!! 😱 That look on Garrett’s face at the end says it all! 😳 Cali immediately felt better and fell back asleep and as soon as the next morning he was bragging to his big brother about the “head monster” that dad pulled out of his skin. 😳😱🤯 MORAL OF THE STORY : Traveling isn’t always rainbows and butterflies. Sometimes it’s tweezers and bot flies. ❤️‍🩹

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When you look at the faces of indigenous cultures before they had access to “modern foods of commerce,” (refined flours, grains, and sugars) you will see perfectly aligned teeth, high cheek bones, wide jaws, fewer wrinkles. This outward picture of health matches an inner picture of health too! The work of Dr. Weston Price can teach us a lot about the way humans are meant to eat. He documented stark contrast between the cultures that stayed on their indigenous diets, and the ones who started to consume refined wheat and sugar- quickly bringing disease, tooth decay, birth defects and more on their people. The book “Nutritional Degeneration” by Dr Price is a powerful testimony to the way humans are designed to eat. Despite geographic differences, certain principles held up across the globe. Here’s what they are: •No refined or denatured foods •Always ate animal foods (even if only seasonally), as well as animal bi-products like dairy and eggs, fish liver oils, organ meats & bones. •Meaty Bones, were cooked down into collagenous, gelatinous soups, stews, and sauces as a part of nose-to-tail eating. •Consumed some raw animal meats and cooked most plant foods •Consumed cultured (Lacto-fermented) foods •No fear of and consistent consumption of whole-unrefined sea salts •No fear of, and consistent consumption of cholesterol, animal fats, and a balance of land and sea animals to balance omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids •They took special care of a woman’s diet in pre-conception, pregnancy & postpartum— as they KNEW this is what creates healthy offspring Contouring our faces with chemical paint won’t get you (or future generations) as far as eating real food, nose-to-tail, locally and seasonally. Braces, breathing apparatuses, pharma & the like are all bandaids to solve ultimately structural issues that are caused by poor nutrition over several generations. Let’s hear your thoughts!! 👇 @wildnutritionist PS- if you want to learn more about the REPAIR in modern times, and how to get your family on the right track with real food, comment “GUT” and I’ll send you my latest masterclass, gut health for babies and children! @wildnutritionist

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