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The disinfectant units, called fog machines, are about the size of a golf bag. A special blend of hydrogen peroxide and a silver solution make up the liquid disinfectant that is poured into the fog machine and sprayed in a mist in a sealed-off room.
Lucy Pallot had never experienced the lows of depression and anxiety until she started taking pregabalin.
“I would never even think about suicidal thoughts and that was the only thing we can pin it to, is the Lyrica. That’s all,” said Ms Pallot, 25, from Bairnsdale in Victoria’s east.
She was taking what is now the most commonly prescribed subscription medication for pain in Australia, pregabalin, which is sold under the brand name Lyrica.
Doctors issued 4.1 million scripts for the drug last year.
Ms Pallot, along with a growing number of health professionals and other patients, is now questioning whether pregabalin is being incorrectly prescribed to make up for inadequate specialist healthcare in regional Australia.
In 2017, Ms Pallot, who has type one diabetes, was working in a beauty salon in Melbourne when she went to a doctor complaining of restless legs.
“The doctor who prescribed it to me didn’t do any tests. She just said ‘take this, it will help you sleep’,” she said.
“[It was if the doctor said] medicate yourself, and if it gets worse, have more.”
So that is what Ms Pallot did.
She upped her daily dose from 25 milligrams to 250 milligrams, and within eight months she was addicted and critically ill.
She weighed just 49 kilograms, suffered blurred vision, and had the heart rate of an 80-year-old.
“I ended up losing about 35 kilograms in three months and I was put in hospital for about four to five weeks in ICU in Melbourne because I had anorexia,” Ms Pallot said.
“There were times I would be rocking. I was fully, mentally unwell.
“And I had this brain fog where I would try to say something but the words wouldn’t come out.”
It is a gross mismanagement of our resources that we are not doing a better job of looking after our most precious physical assets.
I have included 10 medicinal mushrroms in my top powders and bars. One of them is called Turkey Tail. Here are some health benefits of this unusually named mushroom.
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Coronavirus is an ordinary flu like virus and far less fatal. I thought this immediately when I began to read about it. However, today I met with a client who KNOWS about it. He runs a government certified microbiological testing lab testing food and other products. BTI helps with security for the lab which contains samples of really bad stuff. We do their access control, cameras, alarm, and telephone systems to protect the public from getting into the wrong place. I asked what he thought about coronavirus. His words were that it’s a tailor made, relatively weak bug to sell hysteria, government control, and vaccines.
Cards are sort of stacked heavily against most kids aren’t they?
Many probiotic products on the market may claim to contain high amounts of beneficial bacteria, but if the product has been heated during manufacturing—that beneficial bacteria could be no longer.
On today’s episode, I’m with practitioner Brad Leech to discuss a few myths about probiotics.
Three teenage girls are fighting date rape drugs, using a straw as their weapon. Date rape is a significant problem, particularly with female college students, but a simple straw may help prevent crime. The girls came up with the concept during an entrepreneurship class they attended. They decided to enter their product in the 2017 Miami Herald’s Business Plan Challenge and won first place.
In some of the cases examined by Dr Tucker, children have been able to recall enough detail about their past lives to trace the memories back to specific people.
Tom: This is not new, it has been recorded for at least decades and was part of our cultural awareness until the father of modern psychology, Professor Wundt, in 1879 decreed man was not a spiritual being but an animal.
The sperm count of men in Western countries has been declining precipitously with no signs of “leveling off,” according to new research, bolstering a school of thought that male health in the modern world is at risk, possibly threatening fertility.
By examining thousands of studies and conducting a meta-analysis of 185 — the most comprehensive effort to date — an international team of researchers ultimately looked at semen samples from 42,935 men from 50 countries from 1973 to 2011.
They found that sperm concentration — the number of sperm per milliliter of semen — had declined each year, amounting to a 52.4 percent total decline, in men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Tom: If you get rid of as many chemicals as you can from your air, food supply and environment you will reduce your sperm loss.
Total sperm count among the same group also tumbled each year for a total decline of 59.3 percent over the nearly 40-year period.