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Post Edited (sandyfeet) : 12/26/2021 11:55:18 AM (GMT-7)

Did I post here about Health Canada wanting to regulate natural health products - ie as drugs?

And is this in part fuelling your feelings of vulnerability?

I can only imagine how much they will cost if it happens - and our choice of brands will lessen.

I had a tad of anxiety earlier as I looked at an old “to do” list with the words “earthquake kit” on it.
I think I’ve stalled on it because I don’t know how I would narrow down/ decide which supplements, meds I would put in it - without it being an extra large piece of luggage weighing 100lbs+. Lol

sandyfeet said...
Anyone starting to feel a little nervous and vulnerable around various moves to censor access to alternative health information?

After ten years and tens of thousands of dollars spent on alternative healthcare, my current concern is about having access to VALID information.

Although "conventional" healthcare certainly has its share of problems, it's not all bad. Conversely, "alternative" medicine certainly isn't a panacea. There's potential for harm in both camps. While "conventional" medicine can move too slow and be too cautious, "alternative" medicine can move too fast and make leaps of faith with things that may not have been fully validated.

So, to me, it's not the quantity of information that matters, it's the quality. The Internet has become an echo chamber of brain farts, when it comes to "health" information. I would say that no one really knows anything for sure. If they do, it will almost certainly change.

sandyfeet said...
On the same note does anyone have a good dietary/nutrient reference book to recommend? I’m thinking something that covers the various vitamins and minerals, importance of, and sources etc. Let food be thy medicine sort of thing. My library is currently missing something in this genre.

Regrettably, I've no books to share, but I'd recommend the following 30-day free e-mail course:

Vitamins and Minerals 101 by Chris Masterjohn, Ph.D.
https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/blog/2019/03/06/vitamins-minerals-101

Today is Day 22 for me, but I'm a bit behind on reading them.

If you'd like me to cut-and-paste one of the lessons here, so you can see an example, I'd be happy to do so. Just let me know if you have a particular vitamin or mineral in mind. Or, I can pick one at random.

sandyfeet said...
...living in some sort of bizarre alternate universe...

I can definitely relate to this, as I don't feel quite myself anymore, not to mention the neuro-psychiatric manifestations like depersonalization, derealization and other psych. symptoms that make this all the more difficult...

One or two things I would add to this about making tinctures (I haven't much knowledge of this, only know that straight vodka and other high-proof alcohols can be used in this process, whiskey also maybe, I think my Teasel root which as I recall was mighty-herxy may have been made with whisky because that's how it tasted...:

about gathering herbs, I personally wouldn't try to go gather anything wild right now, both because of ticks and other biting bugs/flies it being hot season for bug-bites--concerns and my lack of knowledge about whether herbs are safe for consumption, unless I could be assured the source was considered safe.

If I learned anything from Christopher McCandless (of Into the Wild fame) who died of toxic herb poisoning, eating the wrong herbs could be deadly, and misidentification happens; and also I wouldn't eat dandelions around the suburbs here because there so many insecticides and other pollutants and I live near a major highway where brake dust (and pollen and spores) are on everything.

Summer is an especially "rich" time for toxic air particulates here in the South, that is my somewhat-educated perspective...

Herbalism is very interesting though, and I want to learn more about it, so that I might incorporate said herbs into recipes more often such as chicken with oregano, thyme, sage, rosemary and know that there is a "medicine be thy food" effect happening as well.

Hardcover books could be handy, and I seem to forget as much as I read nowadays. Can't even think of a book I would recommend, except maybe HD Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, and if I lived that rurally (as in HD's Walden Pond and environs), that being bitten by various bugs (again) that far in the sticks would be a concern...

but then again, as Buhner says in one of his lectures, that the cure could also be close-by as that's how Mother Nature works (speaking of Japanese Knotweed seeming to grow around tick-borne-disease vector areas...)

Post Edited (borrelioburgdorferii) : 7/4/2019 4:05:19 AM (GMT-6)

Most folks I know attack these diseases from the alternative side of healing. I tried to learn to heal them from the conventional side of medicine. Not necessarily the drugs, but from the biochemical standpoint. Learn what is going wrong and work my way back to the molecular level. I don't think this method suites everyone but it has really helped me. Google Scholar is where I spent 95% of my time.