Thursday, March 9, 2023

Preserving organic seeds, providing healthy food

High Mowing Organic Seeds has become one of the only companies producing organic seeds from organically grown plants

Their mission is to grow organic seeds that came from an organic source that have high disease and insect resistance, high yield and that produce high-flavor crops
 
They now grow over 600 heirloom, open-pollinated and hybrid seeds, including vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers, for home gardeners and commercial growers 

95 %  of the acreage of organic vegetable farms are planted with conventional seeds
 
Choosing organic seeds is important for avoiding pesticides and growing the heartiest, most resilient plants

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Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Natural immunity protects

A recent systematic review and meta-analysis found natural immunity is “at least as high, if not higher” than that provided by two mRNA injections, and “provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness”

Overall, infection-acquired immunity decreased the risk of hospitalization and death from a COVID reinfection by 88% for a minimum of 10 months. For comparison, previous studies have shown the efficacy of two COVID shots wanes to BELOW zero by the sixth month, meaning the effectiveness becomes negative, making you more prone to infection than you were before

However, the study was funded by the Gates Foundation and appears to have been spun to facilitate the deployment of vaccine mandates

U.S. Medicare data show the COVID jab increases the all-cause mortality risk among the elderly rather than lowering it

Analysis of data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in the U.K. reveals the shots increase all-cause mortality for all age groups, and it’s only getting worse over time, all while doing nothing to reduce deaths from COVID specifically

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Sudden increase of Bell’s Palsy cases

Bell’s palsy diagnoses increased 8.6% among those who had COVID-19, while the incidence of Bell’s palsy also rose 6.8% among those who received a COVID-19 shot

Bell’s palsy has previously been noted as a complication of meningococcal, hepatitis B, smallpox and influenza (seasonal and H1N1) vaccinations

During two phase 3 COVID-19 shot trials involving 73,898 people, eight cases of Bell’s palsy were detected — seven among the shot groups and one among the placebo groups

According to one analysis, the observed incidence of Bell's palsy among those who received COVID-19 shots is between 3.5 times and 7 times higher than would be expected in the general population

The Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 shots are most commonly involved in Bell’s palsy cases; the time between receiving the shot and onset of facial weakness ranges from 1 to 48 days

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Edible flowers support your health

Flowers have a long history of use in traditional medicine and were often used against illnesses. Without recordings of the botanicals used in traditional medicine by physicians and herbalists, modern medicine would not have evolved as we know it today
 

Many of the health benefits ascribed to eating flowers come from their vitamin and mineral content as well as antioxidant activity and anti-inflammatory properties

Take care to only eat flowers you can positively identify since some can trigger digestive problems and others are poisonous and even deadly; never eat flowers you purchase from a florist or garden center or harvested from the side of the road and they likely were sprayed with pesticides not labeled for food
 

Several flowers with health benefits include violets, roses, moringa flowers, jasmine,
lavender and pansies; while sold as vegetables, broccoli, artichoke and cauliflower are flowering plants

 

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Poverty, availability & pain cause the opioid crisis

Evidence suggests the opioid addiction crisis is the result of a perfect storm of poverty, trauma, availability and pain, both psychological and physical
 

Among men, non-Hispanic Whites and those younger than 45, economic downturns that substantially reduce house prices increase rates of opioid-related deaths
 

Researchers have also connected economic recessions and unemployment with rises in illegal drug use among adults


Job loss due to international trade is also positively associated with opioid overdose deaths. For each 1,000 people who lost their jobs due to international trade — commonly due to factory shutdowns — there was a 2.7% increase in opioid-related deaths
 

Aggressive marketing is another leading cause of the opioid crisis. In states where triplicate prescription programs were implemented, which led to less aggressive marketing by Purdue, OxyContin distribution rates between 1996 and 2017 were half that of states that did not have such programs

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Monday, March 6, 2023

Molecular Hydrogen, the super antioxidant

Molecular hydrogen acts as a selective antioxidant, meaning it doesn’t indiscriminately suppress free radicals
 

It uses your body's biological systems and feedback loops to identify where and when you’re under oxidative stress, and when found, pathways are activated and key proteins released that cause your DNA to make the antioxidants themselves
 

Molecular hydrogen is not intrinsically an antioxidant. Rather, it helps your body make its own endogenous antioxidants. This is what makes molecular hydrogen so unique

Molecular hydrogen has been shown to have therapeutic benefits in more than 170 different animal disease models
 

The reason it has such diverse benefits in so many different disease models is because all of them have excessive oxidative stress, redox dysregulation and inflammation as their root cause. By regulating the oxidative pathways, molecular hydrogen is able to address these root causes

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First dismissed as a conspiracy theory, now called the truth

For nearly two years, there was a complete ban on discussing the COVID-19 lab leak theory
 

Facebook reversed its censorship policy on the lab leak theory in June 2021. Now, mainstream media are forced to admit the pandemic was most likely caused by a lab leak
 

January 28, 2023, epidemiologists Colin Butler and Delia Randolph published a joint statement saying a lab leak is the most likely source of COVID-19. The two had previously authored separate reports for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), which commissioned them to investigate the possibility of the pandemic being the result of “humanity’s abuse of nature”

February 26, 2023, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Energy Department has now revised its assessment of the origin of SARS-CoV-2, concluding the pandemic “most likely arose from a laboratory leak”
 

The FBI also concluded a lab leak was the most likely scenario all the way back in 2021, yet played a central role in censoring anyone who suggested this is where COVID came from

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