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Lots of good stuff today. Thanks!

needs a radical change if they was to age disease and pain free and escape the “medical loop”….there is an immediate change u could start today….go on a short term–3 day–modified fast of brown rice and miso soup–for 3 days u wouldn’t have organ system failure [lol]–u would be shocked how good u feel

Thanks to both.  I’ve got some melatonin.  Might try it.

Richard. Thanks, and maybe I will, but that’s too much to cope with right now. I don’t feel the need for lifestyle changes; just a way to get out of my head–very occasionally–when insomnia strikes. I can’t explain better now, and I need it today. A band-aid will do for now.

shitake as an immune system booster

 

This result earns shiitake mushrooms the right to be called a health-supportive food. But perhaps more importantly, beta-glucans also provide support for a wide variety of body systems, including our immune system, antioxidant system, and our endocrine system. Because beta-glucans can bind onto certain receptors on our immune cells, they can help support immune system function. These polysaccharides can also function as antioxidants and have been shown to have free radical scavenging activity. In addition, beta-glucan intake has been linked to better regulation of our blood sugar and insulin levels. What we are left with here is a category of nutrient intake—polysaccharides—that we don’t usually associate with such a wide range of potential health benefits. But research on shiitake mushrooms is convincing us to pay more attention to this carb-related group in shiitake and othe mushrooms.

 

SHITAKE MUSHROOMS

 

BTW—notice that no discussion is allowed about building up ones resistance and immune system through proper diet, herbs like echinacea, astragulus or elderberry extract—vit C-selenium—zinc—b-complex—colloidal silver—green tea extract-despite 100s of articles from PEER REVIEW journals showing their efficacy

 

I have all of the foregoing at home—I also have 2 cups of simple soup made from organic shitake mushrooms and water—which I blend after cooking for 5 minutes then allowing to cool down-

 

I add organic miso [I like sweet white or mellow white miso causa its mild taste]–never boil the miso—add after cooking when u blend—when reheating only bring to a simmer soze not to kill the beneficial bacteria]

 

What’s New and Beneficial about Shiitake Mushrooms

 

• A variety of different studies on the health benefits of shiitake mushrooms have converged on a special group of carbohydrate-related molecules called glucans. Glucans are polysaccharides (structures comprised of linked sugars) that are found in many different foods. However, shiitake mushrooms are unusual in containing not only a large amount of total glucans but also a large amount of one specific glucan called beta-glucan. Because these glucans cannot be broken down by enzymes in our digestive tract, they pass undigested all the way through to our large intestine where they help support growth of desirable bacteria in our digestive tract. This result earns shiitake mushrooms the right to be called a health-supportive food. But perhaps more importantly, beta-glucans also provide support for a wide variety of body systems, including our immune system, antioxidant system, and our endocrine system. Because beta-glucans can bind onto certain receptors on our immune cells, they can help support immune system function. These polysaccharides can also function as antioxidants and have been shown to have free radical scavenging activity. In addition, beta-glucan intake has been linked to better regulation of our blood sugar and insulin levels. What we are left with here is a category of nutrient intake—polysaccharides—that we don’t usually associate with such a wide range of potential health benefits. But research on shiitake mushrooms is convincing us to pay more attention to this carb-related group in shiitake and othe mushrooms.

 

• New research has shown that a relatively small daily amount of dried shiitake mushroom (5 grams of dried mushroom, which is the equivalent of 1-ounce fresh mushroom or less than one large shiitake mushroom) can provide measurable anti-inflammatory benefits. This finding is great news for anyone who is interested in bringing small amounts of shiitake mushrooms into his or her diet, without necessarily making it any sort of dietary focus. Consumption of these small amounts of shiitake mushroom by 50 study participants lowered blood levels of the inflammatory messaging molecule MIP-1alpha (macrophage inflammatory protein 1alpha) and increased blood levels of anti-inflammatory molecules including interleukins 4, 10, and 1alpha (IL-4, IL-10, and IL-1a). This study outcome is not surprising since shiitake mushrooms have an extensive track record as an anti-inflammatory food. But it is great to see these benefits coming from dietary intake of shiitake mushrooms in a whole food form, and more importantly, in a very “do-able” intake amount. Just how easy would it be to consume this amount of shiitake mushrooms? In our World’s Healthiest Foods Meal Plan, we include 3/4 cup of fresh sliced and sautéed shiitake mushrooms in our Day 3 dinner alone. All by itself, this amount comes close to matching the shiitake mushroom intake that provided participants with these anti-inflammatory benefits.
• Researchers are getting closer and closer to understanding the biotin content of shiitake mushrooms, and this advance in understanding should eventually pay real dividends for our health. At WHFoods, we don’t provide any data values for biotin in shiitake mushrooms (or in crimini mushrooms) due to the scientific difficulties in measuring biotin levels. However, we are confident that shiitake and most other commonly eaten mushrooms provide very valuable amounts of biotin! So we are excited to see new studies about proteins in shiitake mushrooms called lentiavidins. You might recognize the “avidins” part of this name from research on egg whites. Avidins are egg-white proteins that can bind together with biotin. In the case of shiitake, researchers have added the designation “lenti”—from the shiitake genus Lentinula—to come up with the new protein name, “lentiavidins.” Thanks to recent research, we now know that lentiavidins are unique proteins in shiitake mushrooms that can bind together with biotin. What we don’t know is how these lentiavidins affect the retention of biotin in shiitake or the bioavailability of biotin from shiitake. But researchers are getting closer to answers here, and we view this research as providing additional evidence about the role of shiitake mushrooms are likely to play in providing us with important amounts of this B-complex vitamin.
• At WHFoods, shiitake mushrooms are our 4th best source of copper. (Our top three sources for this antioxidant mineral are sesame seeds, cashew nuts, and soybeans.) Researchers now know that a key enzyme found in shiitake mushrooms—called laccase—requires four atoms of copper to function properly. As a result of its laccase enzyme content, shiitake provides us with 650 micrograms of copper (0.65 milligrams) in a serving size of ½ cup cooked. Since our WHFoods recommended daily intake level for copper is 900 micrograms (0.9 milligrams), about 72% of daily copper intake can be obtained from a single serving of shiitake mushrooms.
• We are seeing an increasing level of research interest in one unique alkaloid found in shiitake mushrooms, namely, eritadenine. When compared to commonly eaten mushrooms like crimini and reishi, shiitake mushrooms appears to contain significantly higher amounts of eritadenine. Much of the interest in this phytonutrient has been focused on its ability to inhibit activity of an enzyme called angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE). Because ACE activity results in a constricting of our blood vessels, inhibition of ACE can help prevent unwanted blood vessel constriction. By preventing unwanted constriction, our blood vessels can keep a wider diameter and this wider diameter allows the pressure on our blood to stay within a normal range. In short: what we are looking at here is a unique nutrient in shiitake mushrooms that appears to increase our chances for better blood pressure regulation.
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FOR THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND PEER REVIEW CITATIONS GO TO THIS LINK:

 

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=122WHFoods Recommendations

Selenium has also been linked to a reduced risk of bladder cancer, although one of the most well-known studies regarding cancer and selenium was a 1996 study by the late Larry Clark, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona, which linked the mineral to an overall lower incidence of cancer risk of death.

In the study of 1,300 older people, the occurrence of cancer among those who took 200 micrograms of selenium daily for about seven years was reduced by 42 percent compared to those given a placebo.9 Cancer deaths for those taking the selenium were cut almost in half.

In addition, the men who took selenium had 63 percent fewer prostate cancers, 58 percent fewer colorectal cancers, 46 percent fewer lung cancers and overall 37 percent fewer cancers. Selenium was even found to reduce the risk of lung cancer to a greater degree than stopping smoking.

The cancer reductions were so significant that the blinded phase of the trial was stopped early, and no cases of selenium toxicity occurred. Some of the scientific explanations for selenium’s anti-cancer effects include: 

• Increased antioxidant protection and immune system support
• Regulation of cell proliferation and apoptosis (programmed cell death) 
• Triggering DNA repair in damaged cells 
• Suppression of growth of blood vessels supplying nutrients to the cancer 
• Inhibition of tumor cell invasion 

A Little Bit of Selenium Goes a Long Way Toward Protecting Your Health

Your body has only a small requirement for selenium. The minimum daily recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for this mineral is 55 micrograms (mcg) for adults, and this is one nutrient where you don’t want too much. 

While small amounts provide important benefits, taking too much (for instance, 400 mcg daily) has potentially been linked to an increased risk of diabetes.2 That being said, unless you’re taking a supplement, it’s difficult to “overdose” on selenium that’s naturally occurring in foods.

As mentioned, many people struggle to get enough. This is particularly true if you eat a primarily processed-food diet, as selenium is destroyed by refining and processing.3 Why is it so important to be sure your body has optimal selenium levels? 

It acts as a powerful antioxidant (and its antioxidant effects increase when combined with vitamin E4). 

Selenium’s Antioxidant Effects May Help Prevent Chronic Disease

Selenium, therefore, plays an important role in preventing chronic diseases and is also important for thyroid and immune system function. According to research published in the journal Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease:5

“Selenium [Se] is critical to the health of living organisms. It has been postulated that the vast majority of the world’s population has suboptimal Se intakes, and hence is at increased risk of several diseases such as cancer, heart disease, viral diseases and other conditions that involve increased levels of oxidative stress.

There are several disease conditions (e.g. diabetes, several infectious diseases and possibly asthma) where … good Se status in combination with an adequate intake of other antioxidative nutrients may help cells and tissues better to cope with harmful oxidative stress caused.

For instance, by some toxic heavy metal or other environmental pollutants, by hyperglycaemia, or by the immune system’s reaction to infection. Efforts to increase Se concentration in the diet are urgent for both current and future generations.”

Low Selenium Levels May Increase Your Cancer Risk

Low selenium levels are linked with an increased risk of death from cancer and all causes.6

In 2015, research published in the International Journal of Cancer revealed that higher selenium levels are linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer, particularly in women. The study also found that selenium status is suboptimal in many Europeans.7

In 2016, a meta-analysis of 69 studies also found that high selenium exposure (from food but not from supplements) had a protective effect on cancer risk and decreased the risk of the following types of cancer:8

• Breast
• Lung
• Esophageal
• Gastric
• Prostate

Selenium has also been linked to a reduced risk of bladder cancer, although one of the most well-known studies regarding cancer and selenium was a 1996 study by the late Larry Clark, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona, which linked the mineral to an overall lower incidence of cancer risk of death.

In the study of 1,300 older people, the occurrence of cancer among those who took 200 micrograms of selenium daily for about seven years was reduced by 42 percent compared to those given a placebo.9 Cancer deaths for those taking the selenium were cut almost in half.

In addition, the men who took selenium had 63 percent fewer prostate cancers, 58 percent fewer colorectal cancers, 46 percent fewer lung cancers and overall 37 percent fewer cancers. Selenium was even found to reduce the risk of lung cancer to a greater degree than stopping smoking.

The cancer reductions were so significant that the blinded phase of the trial was stopped early, and no cases of selenium toxicity occurred. Some of the scientific explanations for selenium’s anti-cancer effects include: 

• Increased antioxidant protection and immune system support
• Regulation of cell proliferation and apoptosis (programmed cell death) 
• Triggering DNA repair in damaged cells 
• Suppression of growth of blood vessels supplying nutrients to the cancer 
• Inhibition of tumor cell invasion 

Selenium for Thyroid Health, Asthma and Fertility

The wide range of selenium’s effects is still being unraveled, but it’s known that selenium plays a role in thyroid function. Your thyroid contains more selenium (per gram of tissue) than any other organ and expresses specific selenoproteins.14

Researchers are looking into selenium’s role in Hashimoto’s disease15 and Graves’ disease as well as its use in pregnant women with anti-TPO (thyroid peroxidase) antibodies. There is also some indication that selenium may be useful for people with chronic asthma, and observational studies have demonstrated that people with chronic asthma may have lower levels of selenium than those without.16

Low selenium levels during pregnancy may also play a role in childhood asthma, although this is still being investigated.17 Selenium has also been found to have a favorable effect on male fertility,18as it is required for sperm motility. Among women, there is suggestion that it may reduce the risk of miscarriage.19 Beyond this, selenium deficiency has been linked to adverse mood states. 

Best Food Sources of Selenium

Selenium is a nutrient you should strive to get via your diet. There is still quite a bit of contradictory and confusing research surrounding selenium and its role in human health, and much of this stems from the use of selenium supplements. 

Researchers writing in the Journal of Environmental Science and Health even went so far as to ask whether we’re witnessing a Copernican revolution in regard to selenium, as there is some evidence suggesting it may have toxic effects at lower concentrations than was previously believed.20 They even noted that selenium’s “upregulation of antioxidant proteins … may be a manifestation of self-induced oxidative stress.”

Until more is understood about selenium’s role in the body, it makes sense to focus on eating a variety of whole, unprocessed foods, which will naturally optimize your selenium levels (along with other important nutrients). Good food sources of selenium include:

In the U.S., selenium levels in soil tend to be relatively high (northern Nebraska and the Dakotas have soil that is especially high in selenium). However, in other areas such as China, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, soil levels of selenium tend to be much lower, and if you eat food primarily grown in these areas, a high-quality selenium supplement may be beneficial. Even parts of the U.S. have been identified as selenium-deficient regions, including:

• The Pacific Northwest 
• Parts of the Great Lakes region and east of it toward New England 
• Parts of the Atlantic Coast 

If you live in one of these areas and focus your diet on locally grown foods, you may be low in selenium. You may also have low levels of selenium if you smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, have had weight loss surgery, or have Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. If you choose to take a selenium supplement for health maintenance, you should use it in a high-quality bioavailable form in a low dose (such as 200 mcg).

Sibanye-Stillwater faces strike at South Africa gold mines

Don’t believe me? Then believe one of the top doctors in the world in her field–I learned the macro diet 42 yrs ago

My e-mail address

clairejoie@aol.co

Sherry A. Rogers, M.D.

Macrobiotics: a major tool to heal the impossible

I had over 20 diagnoses for which there still to this day are no known causes and no known cures in medicine. So I figured the first place to start would be to see what folks had used who claimed they had cured their own cancers. When I read Elaine Nussbaum’s story, Recovery From Cancer, I then investigated her and many other people who had claimed the same. She is very well today 23 years after her metastatic cancer, against which medicine was totally powerless.

The next step was to see what macrobiotics could do for me. I was dependent upon eleven allergy injections a week for years for migraines, asthma, chronic sinusitis, brain fog, and eczema, triggered by many pollens, dust, molds, foods and chemicals. As well, I had colitis, arthritis, unwarranted depression, exhaustion, and a recent onset of a uselessly painful right shoulder which baffled orthopedic specialists.

I couldn’t even raise my arm to brush my hair or pick up a medical chart for six months. Within one month of the strict phase macrobiotic diet, as I described in detail in The Cure Is In the Kitchen, I was windsurfing in the Caribbean, because my shoulder was cured. As well, I’ve never had or needed another allergy injection. But what macrobiotics did for me is a drop in the bucket, compared with what I saw with hundreds of my patients. I saw people turn on and off like a switch such conditions as multiple sclerosis, severe chemical sensitivities, multiple myeloma and other cancers and conditions.

Sherry A Rogers, M.D., a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice, a Fellow of the American College of Allergy and Immunology and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, has been in private practice for over 26 years. She is a lecturer of yearly original scientific material, as well as advanced courses for physicians. She was the keynote speaker for the international symposium Indoor Air Quality 86 in which she described the office method for testing chemical sensitivities. She developed the Formaldehyde Spot Test and published her mold research in three volumes of the ANNALS Of ALLERGY. She has published chemical testing methods in the National Institutes of Health journal, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES. She has published 17 scientific articles, 10 books, and was the environmental medicine editor for INTERNAL MEDICINE WORLD REPORT. 

Medical researchers now have conclusively shown that 95% of all disease, including cancer has only two major causes: diet and environment. We’re the first generation of man to have ever eaten so many processed foods low in nutrients. As well we are the first generation to ever tank up on so many chemicals in our air, food, and water. As a result, the work of detoxifying this enormous, yet hidden load, causes the loss of even further nutrients. As well, government EPA studies show that 100% of U.S. humans harbor in their bodies PCBs, dioxins, volatile organic hydrocarbons, pesticides, heavy metals and other chemicals, most all of which are potent triggers to cancers. The load is so heavy now that when I was in medical school 35 years ago cancer was rare, the 10th cause of death. Now it is the number two disease to cause death in adults and number one for children ages 1-15. If that doesn’t give us a wake-up call that we have done something very nasty to the environment, then I guess nothing will. 

As a result, we have found that as healing as the macrobiotic diet is, many people are too polluted and nutrient-depleted to heal with just the macrobiotic diet alone. As we described in Detoxify Or Die, we show folks how to determine their levels of vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and correct them. As well, how to determine their levels of toxicity and get the disease-promoting chemicals out of the body. The beauty is that the combination of the macrobiotic diet, nutritional correction and reversing the level of toxicity has enabled people to heal the impossible. And if they are just plain well, it’s the closest thing to the fountain of youth that we can attain, for it restores our levels of health back to where they were decades prior and in fact most are even better. Thank you for the opportunity to bring this information to folks. I’ve been practicing medicine for 33 years and also offer phone consultations to folks who want guidance through the maze of options. I know that many people are unnecessarily suffering. They haven’t a clue that they possess the major control over their health destiny.

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Stage 4 kidney cancer

To all those walking in my path … it’s normal to be scared and skeptical at times when faced with something that seems to take all the control of your LIFE out of your hands and places it in the hands of strangers.

Just think positively and do not put your eyes on the path, but look up into the sky and breathe the fresh air, for it is here that your strength and healing will come.

You should know that I’d never been admitted to a hospital for anything before all of this happened. Sure, I’d get colds and the flu, but basically I was an average healthy person. I had worked for 26 years as a police officer and retired early as the commanding officer of the Investigation Bureau of the County Prosecutors Office in Somerset, N.J. I had learned to be invincible and deal with anything I had to deal with.

But I certainly wasn’t prepared to deal with kidney cancer. That happens to smokers and people who abuse themselves. Not me.

I’m truly a novice at all of this. But I’ve read several books and researched macrobiotics (MB) for hundreds of hours on the Internet. My girlfriend at the time and my four wonderful and loving adult kids also have spent hundreds of hours researching cancer treatment options.

I didn’t have the luxury of time when I was diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma) on Oct. 30, 2002. On the day before Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, 2002, the top kidney surgeon at Sloan Kettering Medical Center in New York removed my right kidney – and a tumor the size of a football. An exploratory examination and biopsies were done. I was told they got it all.

Three months later, I learned that the cancer had spread to my liver and lungs. In a six week period CT scans showed the cancer tumors had grown 35 percent. Doctors ran more tests and consulted with other “medical experts” at Sloan Kettering. They decided that the best approach would be a clinical trial drug called Interferon. This drug had some success (15 percent) with slowing the growth of kidney cancer in clinical trials. I was told there is NO MEDICAL CURE for Kidney Cancer.

On my oncologist’s recommendation, I started weekly Interferon treatments. The side effects and success ratio from this and the other traditional medical options (chemo, Interferon, etc.) were well known. Doctors are not well versed, though, on nutritional aspects of healing or food in general. In my case, Stage 4 kidney cancer meant a 15 percent success rate with conventional medical treatment. But the definition of “success” was never clear, their hopes were that it would give me a few more months to live, certainly not cure me.

About five weeks into my Interferon treatments, I had to be taken off the drug because of the deleterious effects it was having on my white and red blood cell counts every week. The doctors told me I’d have to give my body about eight weeks to rebuild from the damage the medication caused, and then they could try something else. They had no hopeful answers as to what was next with traditional medicine. Recovery did not look like an option.

In May, 2003, I started a very strict macrobiotic healing diet (also known as a cleansing diet). This was five months after my surgery … and I’ve never looked back. The knowledge and counseling of a good MB nutritionist was most helpful. My first counselor was Elaine Nussbaum, from here in New Jersey, and another MB cancer survivor. Elaine and Janet Vitt Sommer are my heroes. Their own path to recovery from cancer gave me hope and vision for my recovery.  Their kindness, caring and thoughtful advise helped save my life, and I love them dearly.

I was determined to find a way to have “quality of life,” no matter what the time frame might be. I was torn between going with the medical recommendations to try other clinical trial drugs or with staying strictly on the MB approach. Early in my macrobiotic journey, I was hesitant and skeptical. I needed major persuasion and information to get started. There are so many wacky things on the Internet – some legitimate, others just scams or hype.

What convinced me that MB was the way to go was having the ability to control something in my life. That convincing came from attending classes and also speaking to dozens of Cancer survivors at my first Macrobiotic Conference. I didn’t know if the disease would respond to a macrobiotic approach, but the diet certainly couldn’t harm me. My research told me it made sense –even though I had no experience with it. It was something I could work on with a positive mindset, when everything surrounding me in the medical arena seemed negative and unclear at best.

In a short period of time I was already feeling the positive effects of the MB diet. For example, I’d been on Atenenol to control my high blood pressure for 15 years. In 30 days, the diet had reduced my blood pressure to 120/74, allowing me to stop taking that medication. Today in 2010 it is the same.

My doctors told me to eat whatever I wanted. They didn’t tell me that sugar and processed food, feed and energize disease and cancer. Doctors also didn’t tell me that my body would be less able to properly fight off the cancer growing inside me if it was using all its resources to digest meats, diary and heavy fats. I later learned that doctors typically get about four to eight hours of education on nutrition during eight years of medical school.

Please, DO NOT take this as MD bashing because it’s not intended to be that. It’s just fact. I owe a great deal to my surgeon at Sloan Kettering for his expertise in removing what had to be removed. He is the best in his field. But neither he nor my current oncologist know about or acknowledge macrobiotics. And they should!

I learned all of this by attending a national conference on macrobiotics in July of 2003 at the Kushi Institute Summer Conference and listening to about a several medical doctors who have traveled the same journey as me (many diagnosed with terminal cancer with two weeks or two months to live). I met more than 100 people there who share the same basic story as mine.

In August  2003, my CAT scan showed a 25 percent reduction of the liver tumor. My doctor told me to come back in six weeks for another scan. The October scan again surprised my oncologist, who couldn’t explain another drastic 45 percent reduction in the tumor. I reinforced the fact that I thought it was my diet. He simply responded by saying, “Just keep doing what you’re doing.”

Then, on Dec. 16, 2003, another scan showed no evidence of tumors. The doctor came into the room and said, “I don’t know what this miracle stuff is you’re doing but I don’t see anything on the scan.” He politely listened to our brief but enthusiastic explanation and said “keep doing what you’re doing and we’ll have you back in three months for a routine scan.” He didn’t ask any other questions once he found out it was the result of the diet I’d been on for SEVEN MONTHS!!

I wanted a quality of life no matter what the long-term prognosis might be. The need to have some control and input led me to MB. Thank God it did. It’s also very important to have a spouse or a partner to support and assist you. It would be very difficult without that.

I’m not unique. I’m fortunate to have been exposed to macrobiotics and have a dear and beloved friend, who helped me to see the path and stay the course. Macrobiotics is more than a diet. It’s an approach to balanced living, based on a balanced, wholesome diet (with natural foods), moderate exercise, and an understanding of harmony in our environment (our world and our body).

I haven’t come to understand all of the philosophical principles that are written and spoken about in MB yet. But I accept them as part of a bigger picture that will come to me in bite-sized pieces on my journey to better health and longevity. I initially focused on a strict healing diet, but after about a year started eating a standard macrobiotic diet. It takes discipline and commitment, but I have more energy and vitality than most men my age.

The greatest thing I have received from this MB journey is the ability to become responsible for my own life and health. I control my body’s energy and health by what I feed it. When I keep out toxins, feed it properly, and exercise moderately, it takes care of itself.

Robert (Bob)  Mikell
Washington, NJ
908-689-6905
www.cooking4life.com
email:   rkmbiz@comcast.net

Try Melatonin … also said to be an anti viral anti covid substance.

• Received my second passport
• Opened foreign bank accounts
• Stop paying taxes
• Stop using fiat unless absolutely necessary
• Use Crypto for transfers
• Hold precious metals in several overseas locations
• Moved overseas.

1. know about how the system works, complain how unfair it is and do nothing.
2. Get off my butt and do something about it.

I am doing ok I think with the illness and whatever else I might have gotten, but I am having really serious sleep issues the last couple of nights.  I’ve got to find something to help me relax (either natural or drug; whatever works in a very occasional situation) and/or take my mind off my insomnia. I have had similar bouts with insomnia before, with different causes, but when it happens it’s severe.  It doesn’t matter what the trigger is, what happens is that I start to worry I won’t sleep, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.  If I can get my mind off it, I immediately start to relax, but it is almost impossible to keep it up long enough to drift off to sleep.  I really need to find something today.

Thanks for that info.  Sorry to hear you are coming down with something, too. I understand about the fever; how high would you let it go before trying to bring it down? Hoping that won’t happen, but I should know in advance.

Bitcoin should follow?

Scum not hammering us but also not letting anything move to the upside.

We are a beach ball being shoved under water.

Tesla Owners Have “Buyers Remorse” As Cold Weather Knocks Out Heat

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Mandalay Resources Corporation Announces Production and Sales Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2021, Provides Production and Cost Guidance for 2022

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Discovery Files 43-101 Technical Report for its Preliminary Economic Assessment for Cordero Project

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IAMGOLD (IAG) 2021 Production In-Line with Guidance, Down Y/Y

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Eldorado Gold Announces Strong 2021 Preliminary Production of 475,912 oz; Announces Board and Management Appointments; and Provides Conference Call Details

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Lundin Mining Announces 2021 Production Guidance Achieved for All Metals; Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Results to be Released February 17, 2022

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Paramount Gold Nevada Corp.: 2021 Year in Review

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Nullagine Gold Project Production Update

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Silver Range Resources Ltd. Stakes Two Projects in Nevada and Provides Corporate Update

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Revival Gold Announces $10 Million Non-Brokered Private Placement Financing

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Scottie Resources Intercepts 11.8 g/t Gold Over 6.57 Metres and 37.2 g/t Gold Over 3.71 Metres at Scottie Gold Mine Project and Provides Corporate Update

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TanGold Continues Execution on Sustainable Business Plan

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No help to the SM. Rates still up a little, USD flat.

Will they let the pm sector rise on another down SM day?

I hesitate to call it, but it appears the SM is finished. Earnings from JPM = not helping.

In California the delta and omicron can be in the same place so initially you don’t know what you have.
My temps gone up a little bit as is usually lower than normal and had a bit of the chills last night.
I do hope if it is the virus it’s the omicron because it doesn’t tend to get deeper but stays a upper respiratory type but any one can be dangerous especially since hospitals won’t treat it right.
I wouldn’t take personally anything to drive the temp down less it goes really high because you could prolong it.
It does have the one aspirin but that’s it. My grandson I pushed fluids in small intervals after so many hours with a fever
, adults can retain water longer. The younger the more you have to watch in kids. But if you can tolerate the heat and temp doesn’t get too high it helps get rid of it. You might feel better for awhile but then it can creep back.

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I had some very telling symptoms starting last Thursday.  Just a mild, sporadic cough that day; thought it could have been from some dusty corners I was cleaning up at work.  Nothing else.  Next day same cough was there, and started getting the other symptoms: body aches, slight fever (99.5 was the highest it got), occasional slight chills.  All symptoms mild (though the body aches, especially my back, especially between the shoulder blades, got pretty uncomfortable on day three or four), but couldn’t deny they were there.  Took Ivermectin five days in a row, along with my vitamins and povidone iodine nasal spray, and antiseptic gargle.  No nasal congestion in that period, no sore throat. None of the other possible symptoms.  Was pretty good by day five (Tuesday) so stopped taking ivermectin. None Wednesday or today.  I had been wondering how many days in a row I would want to take it; still don’t know.  In answer to your warning, the only drugs I am on regularly are 40 mg atorvastatin and 81 mg aspirin; I did have a heart attack five or six years ago.

Then, oddly, I started getting some sinus congestion yesterday, Wednesday.  That was discouraging, because I thought I was on the mend.  No runny nose, no sore throat. My temperature was 100.4 last evening.  I took aspirin before bed, then a couple of tylenol around midnight.  Fever was gone in the morning, but hovered at about 99.1 today. I am better all around today; got rid of much of the congestion in the morning, and have been breathing without trouble.  Very little cough. I’m wondering if I managed to pick up a slight sinus condition at the same time as I had the other, which I’m pretty sure might have been Omicron.  I didn’t test because there were none available.  Now I’m just lying low and taking vitamins and gargle and nasal spray, and hoping nothing returns or gets worse.

This is pretty gross but you better listen up and know what is being done to your food supply! (click on the brighteon url below)

https://www.brighteon.com/975b8bc3-b96d-4e4f-b8a6-23dbb610ce2a

If they nipped it in the bud with Ivermectin we might not have all these variants.
A new variant in France who got it from Africa but not as contagious. Ihu

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/health/ihu-covid-variant-symptoms-france-b1991288.html%3famp

I believe Dr Zelenko was the first to try the Hydroxychroloquine and was being used until Ivermectin.
But with Hydroxy you need to take zpac
Azithromycin
Common brands: Zithromax, Zithromax Z-Pak, Zmax.
For some reason that isn’t clear it works together. Just hypothetical how it works as far as I learned.
Also one of the doctors Dr Mobeen gave it to family members and they all developed arrhythmias and had to go to the hospital.
So people prone to them maybe shouldn’t take it.
The only thing you have to watch with Ivermectin is if your on warfarin anticoagulants. You will have to monitor closely your InR levels and adjust the medicine while taking the ivermectin.

Here’s Dr Merik, at one time most of these Dr scientists believed they system be Who or CDC but no more. The science contradicts everything thing they’re doing.
He said post vaccine syndrome is very similar to Covid long haulers. It gets in your macrophages and creates a non stop inflammatory response. They can treat it but regular doctors or vaxx pushers won’t even recognized it and why people can’t trust them. If they get sick their on their own.
A little girl in one of the trials is really messed up now. She went from healthy to near death, a wheel chair and feeding tube. You know what they wrote in her side effects? Stomach aches.

Dr marik

Great news!