Health Promoting Herbs and Spices
They’re perhaps most prized in modern times for their ability to add a flavorful punch to food. But what can herbs, spices, and botanical extracts offer us beyond just pleasurable tastes and aromas during mealtime? A whole lot, it turns out. The array of healthy herbs and spices that our plant world has to offer us expands our palates and perks up our dinner plates.
But even more importantly, they can also perform important restorative functions throughout our bodies to help keep us healthy, vibrant, and disease-free. Did you know that turmeric can prevent and fight cancer, mitigate radioactive exposure, protect against disease-causing inflammation, and bolster brain health? Or that astragalus has been shown to break down and eliminate tumors? Even chili pepper can stop damaging inflammation AND promote apoptosis. Check out the full article to discover the top herbs and spices you absolutely MUST have in your kitchen.
(Tom: And, as usual, 9 out of these 10, and a whole bunch more, can be found in my top nutrition bars and powders. So for a simple, easy way to keep your nutrient intake closer to optimal, check out https://www.healthelicious.com.au)
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…is knowing how you got into the hole you are in then knowing how to get out of it.
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They Are Wrong
The ‘hygiene hypothesis’ for autoimmune and allergic diseases: an update
According to the ‘hygiene hypothesis’, the decreasing incidence of infections in western countries and more recently in developing countries is at the origin of the increasing incidence of both autoimmune and allergic diseases. The hygiene hypothesis is based upon epidemiological data, particularly migration studies, showing that subjects migrating from a low-incidence to a high-incidence country acquire the immune disorders with a high incidence at the first generation. However, these data and others showing a correlation between high disease incidence and high socio-economic level do not prove a causal link between infections and immune disorders. Proof of principle of the hygiene hypothesis is brought by animal models and to a lesser degree by intervention trials in humans. Underlying mechanisms are multiple and complex. They include decreased consumption of homeostatic factors and immunoregulation, involving various regulatory T cell subsets and Toll-like receptor stimulation. These mechanisms could originate, to some extent, from changes in microbiota caused by changes in lifestyle, particularly in inflammatory bowel diseases. Taken together, these data open new therapeutic perspectives in the prevention of autoimmune and allergic diseases.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841828/
Did you know this about plants?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMWCUYz4Umo
An opinion piece from a vaccinated Australian writer
“If Covid was a battlefield it would still be warm with the bodies of the unvaccinated.
Thankfully the mandates are letting up and both sides of the war stumble back to the new normal.
The unvaccinated are the heroes of the last two years as they allowed us all to have a control group in the great experiment and highlight the shortcoming of the Covid vaccines.
The unvaccinated carry many battle scars and injuries as they are the people we tried to mentally break, yet no one wants to talk about what we did to them and what they forced “The Science“ to unveil.
We knew that the waning immunity of the fully vaccinated had the same risk profile as others within society as the minority of the unvaccinated, yet we marked them for special persecution.
You see we said they had not “done the right thing for the greater good” by handing their bodies and medical autonomy over to the State.
Many of the so-called health experts and political leaders in Australia admitted the goal was to make life almost unlivable for the unvaccinated, which was multiplied many times by the collective mob, with the fight taken into workplaces, friendships, and family gatherings.
Today the hard truth is none of it was justified as we took a quick slide from righteousness to absolute cruelty.
We might lay the blame on our leaders and health experts for the push but each individual within society must be held accountable for stepping into the well-laid-out trap.
We did this despite knowing full well that principled opposition is priceless when it comes to what goes inside our bodies and we let ourselves be tricked into believing that going into another ineffective lockdown would be the fault of the unvaccinated and not the fault of the toxic policy of ineffective vaccines.
We took pleasure in scapegoating the unvaccinated because after months of engineered lockdowns by political leaders blinded by power, having someone to blame and to burn at the stake felt good.
We believed we had logic, love, and truth on our side so it was easy to wish death upon the unvaccinated.
Those of us who ridiculed and mocked the non-compliant did it because we were embarrassed by their courage and principles and didn’t think the unvaccinated would make it through unbroken and we turned the holdouts into punching bags.
Lambie, Carr, Chant, Andrews, McGowan, Gunner, and the other cast of hundreds in prominent roles need to be held to account for vilifying the unvaccinated in public and fueling angry social media mobs.
The mobs, the mask Nazis, and the vaccine disciples have been embarrassed by “betting against” the unvaccinated because mandates only had the power we gave them.
It was not compliance that ended domination by Big Pharma Companies, Bill Gates and his many organizations, and the World Economic Forum…
It was THANKS to the people we tried to embarrass, ridicule, mock and tear down.
We should all try and find some inner gratitude for the unvaccinated as we took the bait by hating them because their perseverance and courage bought us the time to see we were wrong.
So if mandates ever return for Covid or any other disease or virus, hopefully, more of us will be awake and see the rising authoritarianism that has no concern for our well-being and is more about power and control.
The War on the Unvaccinated was lost and we should all be very thankful for that.”
Puppeteering
Reversing Soil Destruction
Over the last century, farmers have been encouraged to rely on unsustainable practices like chemical pesticides, monocropping (growing one crop exclusively), and repeated tilling.
In the long run, this doesn’t lead to more food….it leads to dead dirt.
Dead dirt deprives us of the nutrients we need.
And it also leads to soil erosion, as lifeless dust is running off into our rivers and oceans.
In the US, we’re losing soil 10x faster than we’re replenishing it!
Without healthy soil, there’s no food. Without food, we can’t survive.
However, there’s good news.
A handful of trailblazers are working to transform all of this — and doing an outstanding job changing minds, changing policies, and changing the way we think about soil and our food.
Their stories will warm your heart and give you hope!
This week, you can watch The Need To GROW for free.
It’s won over a dozen awards at international film festivals and features Rosario Dawson, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Paul Stamets, and others who are fighting the good fight.
For anyone who wants a serious (and entertaining) dose of grounded hope about the survival of our species and planet, this is THE film you need to see.
>> Watch this heartwarming, inspiring, and critically important movie right now — for no charge.
Yours for great movies and great messages,
Ocean Robbins
P.S. If you’re concerned about climate change, this is for you. The good news is, if we create enough healthy soil, it could pull much of the excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere!
This is truly exciting, and the film shines a light on how it’s possible.
Watch the whole movie now. (Free, for a limited time!)
https://grow.foodrevolution.org/