Enjoy your weekend! May God’s face and presence shine upon you today😘.
xoxo~ liz
Liz James · ·
Enjoy your weekend! May God’s face and presence shine upon you today😘.
xoxo~ liz
Liz James · ·
Does it feel like the polarization of any topic these days is the predominate way the world views things? 🙋♀️
We’re labeled either far left or far right, conservative or liberal, it seems that black or white in our ways of thinking is all that’s being aired……. The gray areas that require critical thinking skills…. gray matter – if you will…. are remarkably in short supply.
*Viruses (plural) are pandemic… not just this particular one at hand. What in the world ?!?!
Well….pandemic, by definition, means a prevalence over a whole country or the world…. ever-lovin-where.
*They (viruses) are part of the world that we live in, and “they” outnumber our cells by perhaps 20 to 1….. or more. (the jury’s still out on exactly how many “they” are!)
Don’t panic friends…… many (if not most) come in peace and are not detrimental to human health. In fact, some of them actually protect us from bigger dangers later down the road.
How many of you had chickenpox? 🙋♀️ #metoo
If you are my age (50’s -ish) you’ll likely remember the chickenpox parties that were popular back in the day. I dug around a little and found this little 5 minute gem from back in the early 80’s… regarding the perils of chickenpox.
https://youtu.be/ZNEMPU4txc0
(Full House Season 1 Episode 15).
Chickenpox ( aka varicella-zoster) was once part of nearly everyone’s childhood experience and almost a rite of passage. Nearly every child under the age of 15 contracted this virus and experienced a generally mild illness, with full recovery in 5-10 days, and gained natural immunity for life. I “might” have a scar or two where I scratched a little too hard,… but I’ve had so many boo boo’s since then they are not distinguishable from life’s everyday battles out here on the farm. #ascarisatattowithastory
Long term side effects? …… I cannot recall any of my childhood friends having any long term repercussions, and I grew up in a town where we pretty much knew everyone (or knew of them).
*Twenty years ago, the CDC estimated that chickenpox was responsible for an average of 90 deaths per year, with 28% of those deaths in persons with preexisting conditions.
That’s 90 deaths / 282.2 million (the population in the year 2000) = a chance of 0.00003% of dying from chickenpox.
For point of reference, the odds of:
⚡️Getting struck by lightning in a lifetime is 1 in 3000 (according to National Geographic )
Being diagnosed with a brain tumor is 1 in 164. (with 14.9% of those being gliomas)
💔 Having coronary heart disease (the most common type of heart disease) is 1 in 18.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I would like to do all the responsible things that I can do to avoid and improve my chances of none of the above three happening to this girl.
Remember that convo we were having about chickenpox ( I hope you watched that absurdly eye rolling 5 minute sitcom clip I posted above). Yes, I know…. that’s 5 minutes of your life you’ll never get back…. but it did bring back personal memories for me of the mild illness I experienced accompanied by the intense need to scratch!
Well….. chickenpox is one of those viruses whose bark is worse than its bite 99.99997% of the time. In fact, as it turns out…. the bite (or blister in this case) is actually beneficial! 🙌
*A study published back in 2007 (in a Journal excitingly called Atherosclerosis) concluded that the chickenpox virus (and interestingly, other common childhood contagious diseases too) not only have PROTECTIVE effects against acute coronary events later in life, but also that the risk of coronary heart disease “decreased significantly with each infection resulting from the common childhood diseases.” WOW.
Here’s a link to the quick abstract of that study 👇 :
* Another study in 2016 titled “The History of chickenpox in glioma risk” published in a journal called Cancer Medicine found that………
“ …. a positive history of chickenpox was associated with a 21% lower glioma risk, adjusting for age and sex. The protective effect of chickenpox was stronger for high‐grade glioma, particularly among those under age 40.”
Link to study 👇:
I think I’ll wear my piddly pox scars with a badge of pride knowing that I’ve got a little extra protection under my skin.
We should always strive for a healthy, top notch immune system, but perhaps God and mama nature knew what they were doing when it came to equipping us in #alltheways.
But, but,but, …. Doesn’t the chickenpox (varicella) vaccine keep us from getting shingles later on in life?
You’d think so.
To be continued. Stay tuned for Part II!
xoxo~ liz
#knowbetterdobetter
#sharingiscaring
#alltheThieves
#ThanksYL
Liz James · ·
👏👇👇👇👏 THIS. 👏👇👇👇👏
This is why I do what I do during “normal” life…….educate my extended family here, in small private groups (online and in person), and one on one for those who need personalized help.
IF we would ever be allowed to see the full and truthful data …. case by case, of those who have lost their lives to this particular virus at hand, I know in my heart of hearts, that those who died had been set up to fail.
A weakened immune system (or any other body system) rarely happens spontaneously. There are triggers.
Surely, lifestyle choices are just that…. a choice. But misleading advertising, mainstream media, sometimes questionable recommendations by world heath organizations, outright sabotage by companies in it for the almighty dollar, and even Google algorithms make it hard to decipher truths that lead to health. A lifetime of this nearly always yields an unfortunate outcome…. thru death or a decreased quality of life. I see it in the pharmacy daily.
Until a person enlists their God given critical thinking skills and begins to piece together information and develop an action plan that is beneficial for their immune system and overall health, that person is literally at the mercy of people and organizations whose motives may have more to do with profit and power than the well being of mankind.
It ends here in my tribe. #joinus!
If you’re part of my community (beyond this page), I pray you’ve been blessed beyond measure in all areas of your life. That’s my hope and vision and business model. 💕
I am your scout, your tour guide, and your park ranger…. and I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t been duped too years ago.
#neveragain #eyeswideopen
Let’s chat.
xoxo ~ liz
#sharingiscaring
#receiveablessingsoyoucanbeablessing
#payingitforward
#knowledgewillchangeyourlifeandyourhealth
#wecantaffordNOTtoknow
#youaretheCEOofyou
#ThanksYL
#Purposeoverprofit
Liz James · ·
Yesterday was a pharmacy 👩⚕️ workday for me.
Masked and gloved…. because that’s how pharmacy rolls right now.
It’s 10 hours of opportunity to observe humanity while working, and as all recent workdays, there are exactly two kinds of people out and about…. those that are living in faith 🙌 and those that are living in fear 😱 .
“For God hath not given us a spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” ~ 2 Timothy 1:7
The two…. faith and fear … cannot coexist in the same body.
I have friends who are elderly and immunocompromised who have been operating thru this season on faith with a sound mind. They are protecting themselves, but standing strong…. shoulders back, and carrying a wink and a smile in their eyes. (These are my dear folks who should and do wear a mask).
I have other elderly friends who are 80+ years old…. strong as an ox still (most of them are farmers 👨🌾👩🌾 and ranchers btw) who are taking minimal precautions, and navigating life as they always have been…. with confidence, humor, and a practical mindset.
These two groups are my personal heroes….. I pray I am like them when I am 80+ and going strong. Life is short friends… and they make the most of every day. 💕
Then, I see others….. of all ages….. shoulders either up around their ears or curled forward, eyes that have lost their sparkle, wearing a mask made of anything they could find. Asking how (or IF) “we” are going to survive all of this… and then go on to quote all that the mainstream media has said for the last many days. Clearly, they’re absorbing all that is being dished out.
Fear can be an idol all of its own. People don’t start out wanting to be fearful, but the mind is a powerful thing. Constant exposure to fear based media will begin to shape and program the brain until fear becomes the driving force of how someone thinks, acts, and responds. Our immune system responds accordingly to how our brain is programmed.
Fear drives the immune system downward to ultimate sickness. 😷
Faith raises the immune system. 🙏🙌
Faith and fear cannot coexist. The Bible is very clear about this, and interestingly (but not surprisingly) science endorses this statement.
We will become what we think about the most, and it is terribly important to be aware of the type of information we are exposing ourselves to.
According to science, it takes 63 days to develop a pattern in the brain. And, according to the Nielsen report, United States adults watch roughly 5 hours of televison per day (or 77 days a year).
Television
“Tell you vision” .
If what your eyes see and ears hear feed a fear based mentality, I urge you to reconsider what you expose yourself to.
Additionally, if you’ve never tried the Young Living essential oil blend White Angelica, I’d encourage EVERYONE to keep a bottle on hand and apply it or diffuse it daily. Do it for a month and see if it doesn’t change your world…. especially if you spend a great deal of time around negative minded people. #youcanthankmelaterforthistip 😘
Hugs and love friends.
xoxo~ Liz
#youarecreatedforgreatness
#faithoverfear
#enjoyyourweekendoutdoors
#faithisfreedomfearisprison
#ThanksYL
Liz James · ·
I’m curious about a few things…….
1.Have you ever had an Itovi scan? If so, how often do you get them?
2.Do you understand the information that the Itovi scan relays?
3. Do you own an Itovi scanner? And if so, where do you live?
Itovi updated their app awhile back, and the graphic attached is an easy to read explanation of what the new scanned info looks like . I realized when I was looking at it that I was misinterpreting the scan results slightly. I hope it helps someone else too!
For more information about the Itovi:
#youneedanItoviscan
#letshookyaup
#bettertogether
#Useyourtoolsknowyourtools
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