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09/25/2025

💚 Meet Your Vagus Nerve: The Body’s Calm & Connect Pathway 💚

If your body had a “secret hotline” that connected your brain to almost every organ — it would be the vagus nerve! 📞🧠➡️❤️➡️🍽️

This incredible nerve is part of your parasympathetic nervous system — the “rest and digest” mode that balances out stress and keeps your body calm. Here’s what it does for you:

🧠 Mood & Stress – Helps calm the nervous system and regulate emotions (think natural stress relief!)
💨 Breathing – Keeps your breath steady and in rhythm
🛡️ Immune Support – Reduces excess inflammation and boosts defense
❤️ Speech & Voice – Shapes tone, coordinates vocal cords, and even influences how you connect emotionally when you speak
🍽️ Digestion – Activates your digestive system so you can actually absorb all that good nutrition
😊 Facial Expression – Helps you smile, laugh, and connect with others on a deeper emotional level

👉 When your vagus nerve is happy, YOU feel more balanced, calm, and resilient.

✨ Simple ways to support your vagus nerve:
• Deep breathing exercises 🌬️
• Singing or humming 🎶
• Cold water splashes ❄️
• Gentle lymphatic work 🌿
• Gratitude & prayer 🙏

So next time you feel anxious, overwhelmed, or bloated, remember: your vagus nerve is there to help you reset and restore. 💫

📌 Bianca Botha CLT, RLD, MLDT & CDS
This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, exercise, or health regimen.

09/25/2025

From a follower:

The FDA has opened a public comment period, that I just learned about, on the use of hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women in light of the Women's Health Initiative Study, which as you know, was stopped in 2012 with great fanfare for a completely false analysis.

That study continues to impact women's health options despite a full redaction and reanalysis showing HRT is cardioprotective for women, while also reducing the likelihood of breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers compared to women who do not receive HRT.

There are only about 500 comments, and we need a LOT more.

Here is the link to the page with basic info, and the option to leave comments:
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2025-N-2589-0001

09/25/2025

Lyme disease Highyield notes ✅

09/25/2025

I am a huge advocate of lymphatic therapies !

Let’s Talk: Lymphatic Drainage & Autoimmune Disease – What’s the Link?
By Bianca Botha, CLT, RLD & MLDT | Lymphatica

If your immune system had a best friend, it would be your lymphatic system. These two go hand-in-hand like peanut butter and honey — especially when it comes to autoimmune conditions. But when the lymphatic system gets sluggish, that friendship turns into frustration.

So let’s dive into how Lymphatic Drainage Therapy (LDT) can become your secret weapon in calming the autoimmune storm.
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What’s the Lymphatic System Anyway?

Your lymphatic system is your body’s clean-up crew — flushing out toxins, old immune cells, inflammatory waste, and cellular debris.
It’s made up of vessels, nodes, and organs like the spleen and thymus — all working hard to keep your immune system balanced and your tissues clean.
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Now picture this…
If your lymph is stagnant, your immune system is stuck in traffic.
And when that happens — the body can start attacking itself instead of the bad guys. Yikes!
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Enter Autoimmune Disease

Autoimmune conditions occur when your immune system mistakes healthy tissue for harmful invaders.
It’s like friendly fire — and it causes pain, inflammation, fatigue, and so much more.
⚔️🧡🥱

This is where lymphatic drainage steps in, gently whispering to the immune system:
“Let’s detox, reduce inflammation, and calm things down.”
🌬️🧘‍♀️💧

How Lymphatic Drainage Therapy Helps:

Here’s how it supports autoimmune warriors:
🌿 Reduces systemic inflammation
🧽 Improves toxin removal
💨 Increases oxygen & nutrient delivery to cells
🤲 Calms overactive immune responses
🧘 Promotes parasympathetic healing (rest & digest mode)
🌀 Boosts gut lymph flow – hello, immune reset!

Autoimmune Conditions That May Benefit:

Here are just a few where LDT has shown incredible support:
✅ Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
✅ Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
✅ Lupus (SLE)
✅ Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
✅ Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis
✅ Celiac Disease
✅ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
✅ Fibromyalgia
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And let’s not forget…
Lymphatic drainage helps support those mystery flare-ups when you don’t even have a clear diagnosis yet — just a tired, inflamed, overwhelmed body.
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Your Body’s Not Attacking You… It’s Asking for Help!

Lymphatic drainage doesn’t “treat” autoimmune diseases directly — it simply creates a cleaner, calmer internal environment where your body can regulate inflammation, process immune responses, and heal with more ease.
And it’s gentle — like a loving hug to your immune system.
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Final Words:

If you’re battling an autoimmune condition, your lymphatic system might just be the missing piece in your healing journey.
Support it, move it, love it… and watch how your body begins to breathe again.
🕊️🌿✨

This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your healthcare provider before beginning any new therapy.

09/17/2025

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LONG COVIDS LINK TO BARTONELLA!

https://www.jillcarnahan.com/2025/06/21/hidden-infections-behind-long-covid-unmasking-bartonella-henselae/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAMytQhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrPoowlCz97KTrmOOQ5l6E9zAUUKxpldaiwcFbnwXXsel50SxVTWueow_Wet_aem_Z5wIFOC3eriVmnKgJCrxUAe

A fascinating case study recently published in the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases has shed light on this exact scenario. The report details how investigating a supposed case of long COVID revealed an underlying Bartonella henselae infection that was discovered throug...

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Bartonella

https://www.lymedisease.org/?s=Bartonella

09/12/2025

Progress

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BTaXGRzT5/?mibextid=wwXIfr

House committee approves $17.5M in new funding for tick-borne diseases. https://www.lymedisease.org/house-appropriations-lyme/