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Switchel

Kombucha is so old hat Switchel is where it's at Ingredients: 2 cups mineral or filtered water ¼ cup raw, organic apple cider vinegar ¼ cup raw honey 1 ½ tablespoons freshly grated organic ginger For a little extra cleanse add a pinch of

It's not a mental illness, it's a mental disorder.?

So people fake being ill?Rule Rule number one of the internet: anything you read online is potentially false/fake.?

Itchy...

A few months ago my cardiologist recommended I increase my diuretic to resolve leg swelling when I sit at a computer many hours a day. If that doesn't work, I should wear compression stockings. Medium compression of 20-30mmHg was the recommendation.

Update on my illness.

I self-diagnosed covid, but after going through all the symptoms, I am now under the impression, that what I have is a very bad cold. How do I know that? Well.. Cold sores, or o*al herpes. They always present themselves when I have had a particula

I got vaccinated against the virus yesterday.

Yep, after my 'infamous' walk to the store yesterday (see other blog), I went to a pharmacy and got vaccinated. This was not my first one either. We microbiologists have an inside access. This was my second vaccine for this virus. It

| UPDATE | 9/22/21 - Low-Dose Aspirin Could Avert Worst COVID Symptoms

(See Comments for Update) Aspirin's Lung Protection May Reduce Ventilation, ICU & Mortality In COVID-19 Patients. More @ - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseret.com/platform/amp/u-s-world/2021/3/20/22339819/baby-aspirin-covid-19-sympto

Regression

Well...never thought this could happen...but the morning after pill is illegal in Wyoming...what states in the US will follow??? This quote is from CNN news... As the fight over abortion pills heats up nationally, Wyoming on Friday prohibited the

A huge can of worms. Updated.

Where should state health care end & personal responsibility begin, a question I reckon we'll all have to answer very shortly, the NHS in the UK has appealed & lost a court case over whether it's the health service that should provide the drug HIV pr

Crowned...

I've probably been to 8 or 9 dentists in the last decade. My preference is someone with a small practice. One guy in his 60's was in business at least 30 of those years with 2 chairs. Him and the hygienist. I tried a few times and was unhappy with hi

Do mRNA covid vaccinations permanently change our DNA?

Well the answer to that is NO It seems some here are addicted to anti-vax hysteria, and the pleasant (to them); resulting melodrama... Sorry to disappoint the anti-vax brigade on here; but once again, they DO NOT permanently alter our DNA ht

Unusual bath salt

Just this weekend, my son gave me a pack of choco banane as it is written on the package. With just that glimpse I asked him if he wants me to make a warm drink out of it. And he said no because it's a bath salt. I do pamper myself with a high alkali

Things will never go back to how they were after Covid19

I will mention only some examples, maybe you can write some others. People who used to travel often won´t do it again at least not with the same frequency they used to do. Many people are working from their houses now and in some cases that will be f

So over getting older

I've had too many samples of old age recently and it is really grating my carrot. A molar broke - just broke! - and then I was deaf for a while, sheesh that's the pits, back to normal now. Then my eyes started blurring and I had to get specs and now

About frozen food

Done my bulk shopping only days ago so all my freezers nicely full to the top I've had people staying with me over the past few days and Saturday night one turned off all my switches without realizing he had just unplugged my freezers

It's not about health care. Never has been.

Footage has emerged of the moment police pushed an older woman to the ground during violent anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne. Shocking video has emerged of police appearing to push over an older woman during the violent anti-lockdown prote

Bonebridge !

No, this is not about the bridge connecting two people during sex. Instead, it is about a new procedure to help those with hearing challenges. The first person in New Jersey recently got one with instant success. It will likely help a l

Give me a woman

There are certainly things that women seem unable to do as well as men, but there are also things that women do better than men. This morning I experienced an example of female superiority. I have always been phobic about injections, they terrify

Weather

Is there cold wave in the Europe ? How is weather there ?

when our health is irreversible

A friend of mine is very sick. Lung cancer. She smoked for the last forty years of her life. Today she is in the intensive care unit and is waiting for a lung transplant. A most painful illness. Seeing her with all the gadgets that helps her breath

self healing

In many diseases, our body has the ability to heal itself. When an animal falls ill, the first thing it does is to stop eating. I have been observing one thing since childhood that whenever my father has fever, he stops eating for two to three da

2nd birthday

I am 91 years old, how can I have a 2nd birthday? Today is my 38th birthday ! Here is how it happened, 38 years ago today, July 3, 1978, I received a triple bypass, it saved my life. Now I am the longest living human with a triple, proud to say th

What charity I most believe in, and why

Feel free to share yours, and why you do..... I have two that are important to me 1. For me, I believe in the Humane Society because I'm an animal lover, and I would love to see their lives made better. Seeing some locked up in shelters in cage

60.....plus....

As a person gets older, changes occur in all parts of the body, including the brain. Certain parts of the brain shrink, including those important to learning and other complex mental activities. In certain brain regions, communication between neurons

How Big Pharma's Money Is Affecting Our Health And

Turning down a prescription from your doctor might not seem like a smart decision. However, recent research revealing the influence of pharmaceutical companies on doctors in many disciplines makes it clear that your prescription may have less to do w

Do You Pay Attention To Your Body? You Should.

It started about six years ago. I was having pains in my hips and my lower back and arms. My doctor would give me a prescription for pain. Well that was not helping so I asked what is causing this? It was hard to move, it hurt to bend or twist. I fin

Gray, not blue

It is the time of the year, again, when leaves turned into beautiful colors of orange, red and yellow before they fall to the ground. Yet the sky is always gray or worse, black and rain just keeps coming day after day. I wonder where the sun goes.

Eating food

Eating food to prevent getting sick as this is caused by starvation Will be followed by my next blog Breathing air to prevent getting sick this is called Suffocation and is usually caused by lack of oxygen to the brain

Immune Booster Not.

In biblical era plagues were punishments from God. (Some people think so even these days.) We are not dealing with a plague but a pandemic, some will say. Whatever. ...(I will learn the difference if someone doesn't point out the difference betwee

Hospice...

I received some bad news this week. The mother-in-law of my nephew who was diagnosed with cancer 4 years ago is no longer responding to chemotherapy. My nephew was working in California for a few years and his wife came back to Florida to her parents

Ladies of CS?

If your husband said to you, he wants to put you up the duff, would you say yes or no? 000

Why do women live longer than men?

All across the world, women enjoy longer lifespans. David Robson investigates the reasons why, and whether men can do anything about it. One early idea was that men work themselves into an early grave. Whether working in a mine or ploughing the la

Sad Story of Mental Illness

Like most we wonder why people commit suicide...should there be more support for those that suffer?...

Dementia in close-up

Last night was my first real encounter with a person in an Alzheimer meltdown - strictly speaking in the form of LBD, Lewy body dementia, but I'd never heard of that before. A local friend brought her husband over (we live walking distance apart) for

Safer Cigarette

In the 1960s, the Liggett & Myers tobacco company created a product called the XA, a cigarette in which most of the stick’s carcinogens had been eliminated. Dr. James Mold, Liggett’s Research Director, reported in court documents in the case of

American cancer patients hopping the Mexican border for this?

For years American cancer patients have been hopping the Mexican border for a strange treatment that looks like nothing more than water… Why? mexican border Because an in-vitro study shows this Mexican “Water” helped to kill 10,000 times more

Depression & mental illness

I see we have yet another blog about the above.... and truthfully we've heard it all before on previous blogs. Not that I disagree with any such topics as some are therapeutic for many.... I sympathise with anyone who must live with such condit

Overall mental health of the blogging community

Do you folk think that we have a mental 'health' epidemic here on the blog lately? I kinda have a feeling that that's prolly the case, actually. Don't know if you've sensed it. I did. Watch out.

Giving Up Smoking

Giving Up Smoking

I Know I Need To...

but I am not looking forward to it. Over the weekend I purchased some lemons, a container of raw honey (almost local- from one State over), a bit of ginger root, and a bottle of Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar. I know a concoction of all these thin

every ''body'' is different.

Dr. Richard Fleming a convicted felon, lies about COVID being a bioweapon

14/09/2021, 09:31 FBI — Doctor Sentenced in Health Care Fraud Scheme Home • Omaha • Press Releases • 2009 • Doctor Sentenced in Health Care Fraud Scheme Doctor Sentenced in Health Care Fraud Scheme Omaha Division Links Omaha Home U.S.