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01/29/2022

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01/25/2022

What is vegan vs. plant-based?
Is there a difference? It’s all explained in this article.
Either way, eating more plants has been shown clearly in research to reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes, inflammation, cancer and so much more.
Strive to eat 10-15 servings of plants daily and reduce your animal-based protein, or st least your serving-size of an animal protein are both a great start!
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https://vegnews.com/2022/1/vegan-versus-plant-based-difference

What does it mean to be vegan? Is plant-based the same thing as vegan? Here are the basic dietary terms, defined.

08/27/2021

This graph compares the chance of getting an adverse event from the Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine vs the same condition from Covid-19 disease.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110475

08/27/2021

08/03/2021

While there are some limitations to this study, it is a decent study showing the efficacy of the mRNA SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccine.

Background: With the emergency use authorization of multiple vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 infection, data are urgently needed to determine their effectiveness in a real-world setting. Objective: To ...

04/02/2021

Long haul patients symptoms reduce after receiving both rounds of the immunization.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/03/31/982799452/mysterious-ailment-mysterious-relief-vaccines-help-some-covid-long-haulers?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&fbclid=IwAR0OtBbbtoUoJEkrqQwRGBIlRfn74-kV-yJPxVeWRp6IKc7rd7Uf_SjNcYk

The possibility that vaccines meant to prevent the disease may also be a treatment for long COVID — when symptoms linger for months — has sparked optimism among patients and scientists.

03/17/2021

Vaccine side effects often mean the vaccine is working

Many of us are eagerly awaiting our turn to be vaccinated and hearing from others about their experiences taking the vaccine.

You may have noticed that some people have side effects and others don’t.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), side effects are normal signs that your body is building protection. Having side effects may make it difficult to do daily activities, but they should go away in a few days. Some people have no side effects, but the vaccine is still working.

I have had reports from patients that they felt absolutely nothing to severe body aches, headache, fever, flu-like symptoms for 5 days or more. It’s all the spectrum of your immune system getting educated about those spike proteins of the Coronavirus.

See the graphic below for a list of common side effects and what you can do to relieve them.

After vaccination move your arm, massage it, do exercise! After my vaccination, I packed the house to move and went to dance class. My arm felt much better after exercise.

02/02/2021

Clark County Public Health
To be clear: There is not an outbreak at this facility. An individual who tested positive for COVID and was potentially contagious was at the facility on the days and time listed and in close contact with others. We have not been able to identify and notify those individuals that they were in close contact with someone who tested positive. That is why this information was announced. We have done similar announcements in these circumstances in the past.

People who visited a Camas salon recently may have been exposed to COVID-19 and should quarantine at home.

Anyone who visited Stellar Hair Design in Camas between 10 am and 7 pm Jan. 19-23 or Jan. 26 may be at risk of contracting COVID-19. Skamania County Community Health and Clark County Public Health have been unable to identify and notify individuals who may have been exposed. It’s unclear how many people may have been exposed.

Individuals who visited the salon during those times should quarantine for 14 days from their most recent visit to the salon during that timeframe.

Health officials recommend anyone exposed to COVID-19 quarantine at home for 14 days and monitor themselves for symptoms. People who do not live or work in a high-priority setting – such as long-term care facilities, health care facilities, food processing facilities or jails – may shorten their quarantine in the following circumstances:
• If a person who is in quarantine has no symptoms, quarantine can end after Day 10.
• If a person who is in quarantine receives a negative COVID-19 test and has no symptoms, quarantine can end after Day 7. The person must be tested on or after Day 5, and quarantine cannot be discontinued earlier than Day 8. Even if a negative test is received before Day 8, the quarantine period should still be a full seven days.

Anyone who has been in quarantine should continue to monitor their symptoms through Day 14. If they develop symptoms, they should isolate themselves immediately to avoid infecting others and seek testing for COVID-19.

02/01/2021

Does this establish causation? No. Does this support Vitamin D supplementation, especially at higher latitudes? Yes.

A study has found that more than 80% of COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Spain are deficient in vitamin D.

01/24/2021

01/20/2021

Researchers from the Princeton Environmental Institute find the continued spread of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is driven by only a small percentage of those who become infected.

12/23/2020

"The finding that the COVID-19 death rate was three times higher than for seasonal influenza is particularly striking when reminded that the 2018/2019 flu season had been the worst in the past five years in France in terms of number of deaths," Quantin noted in a Lancet news release.

Tubert-Bitter added, "Taken together, our findings clearly indicate that COVID-19 is much more serious than seasonal influenza."

The death rate among COVID-19 patients was 18.5%, while it was 5.3% for those with the flu. Those with COVID were nearly five times more likely to die than flu patients, according to the study published online Dec. 15 in the BMJ.

12/16/2020

This is a long but informative read.

Long Covid "is a phenomenon that is really quite real and quite extensive," Anthony Fauci said earlier this month.

11/26/2020

TL/DR: Adopting universal masking policies can help avert future lockdowns, especially if combined with other non-pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing, hand hygiene, and adequate ventilation.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-science-sars-cov2.html?fbclid=IwAR3UJSUDPM7LOZI3IQuvAtFRnwDaCymwVQ4yNSVfpnIJZmlDM6JTFFksjy0

CDC provides credible COVID-19 health information to the U.S.

10/19/2020

Autumn is my favorite season! Eat your autumn veggies!

09/18/2020

https://aapsonline.org/big-tech-silencing-physicians-a-very-dangerous-road-for-american-medicine/?fbclid=IwAR1PhreOZ2FbQWanpN7MliacK5UEfvGQttOYHLANykNStnqsvxxo2qTTK2M

By Lionel Lee, DO, FACOEP “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” The Constitution plainly and clearly states the importance of allowing every American, including physic...

09/14/2020

From a trusted environmental med ND, Dr Louise Tolzmann:
Here are some of her suggestions.
(Please check with your doctor first if you're not sure about your own health situation.)
“This week I literally finished my 100+ slides for a presentation I am giving at the end of October on smoke & the health effects seen in firefighters.
Here’s my summary:
Smoke is not just particles - it is all the substances that are burning. It is gases & plastics & pesticides & toxic metals & flame retardants. These get attached to the particles & we breathe them in. And we absorb them through our skin (even firefighters on oxygen have elevated levels of benzenes). And we ingest them.
The particles they are measuring as part of air pollution is PM 2.5 - which is just the size (2.5 micrometers). The smaller particles - PM 0.1 are much more toxic. They aren’t being measured & often the PM 2.5 is made up of 0.1 glommed together.
In any case these small particles are dangerous because they don’t stay in your lungs - they go straight into your blood stream & straight into organs like your brain & your heart.
So what you can do:
•Try to reduce your exposure to smoke!
•Don’t go outside.
•Don’t exercise.
•Close your windows & doors.
•Wear as much of a mask as you have - N100 or N95 or your homemade ones - maybe doubled or tripled (??).
•If you have air filters & you forgot to turn them on - do so.
•If you have a way to circulate air in your house through a filter - like an HVAC system - do that.
•If you can - double up on your filter in the unit or change it frequently.
•And if you do have a way to circulate & filter - then seal your house up - use tape on windows or doors that are leaky.
•Close your chimney flue.
•Reduce the dust inside - wipe down surfaces, vacuum.
The particles that have come in are carrying all the toxic things - try not to have them move around every time you move around & rebreathe them.
Supplements:
1) B complex vitamins.
- they did a study where they stuck people into a pollution chamber (literally) for 2 hours after they had been on placebo or B vitamin for a month - and the B vitamins protected & reversed the DNA damage from the pollution!!
2) Fish oil
- heart attacks go up after smoke exposures. Your entire body is getting inflamed from this - especially your brain. Take your fish oil
3) N-Acetyl Cysteine
- 500 mg 3-4X per day. Major support for detox pathways in your body
4) Glutathione:
- you probably don’t have this - but if you do & you forgot to take it - do it now. And then take some Vitamin C to help you recycle your glutathione.
5) Green Tea!
- start drinking it. Super anti-oxidant - helps so many chemicals get cleared
6) Brassica Veggies:
- broccoli cabbage cauliflower. . . . . . all super important helpers for you to clear the toxicants you are being exposed to.
Any other anti-inflammatory supplements you happen to have around - turmeric, vitamin C, vitamin D, elderberry. . . . . . your body is working really really hard to clear the smoke - give it a little help.
Stay safe friends! These are indeed very interesting times we are living through.”
- Dr. Louise Tolzmann, Portland, OR 9/2020