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Healthy Homemade Formula

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Feeding babies in a healthy manner has been around since the beginning of time. There ARE very healthy homemade formula recipes available out there should you find yourself in need of baby formula.
 
Remember, prepackaged food is generally not uber healthy. In fact, sometimes it’s downright unhealthy. (Does anyone remember the Nestle baby formula fiasco a few decades ago?)
 
I have been a follower and member of the Weston A Price Foundation for more than 15 years, and I stand behind their teachings. This is an organization that believes in both science and time honored healthy traditions.
 
 
xoxo~ liz
 
 

April Young Living Gifts

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Whoop!!!…There’s no April foolin’ when it comes to this month’s gifts with qualifying purchase. Young Living has done their homework and given us some mighty health tools for free!
 
Pine and Lemon…. friends, if you know…. you KNOW how important these two are for every single one of us right now. I’m wondering if Dr HK Lin had a hand in picking this selection out?…… I wouldn’t be surprised😉.
 
USE your lemon every single day however it best fits into your world. Dr. Lin suggested (when talking to him back in January in Utah) diffusing daily. I personally also use it in a roller bottle blend on the bottoms of my feet twice a day (my blend recipe looks like this)…..
1 10ml roller bottle
~ 20 drops of Lemon
~ 20 drops of Pine
~ 20 drops of Geranium
~ 20 drops of Thieves
Fill remainder with carrier oil
 
I also use a couple drops of Lemon in my water and also in my diffuser….. as you (hopefully) know…. Lemon and Lemon Vitality are both the same essential oil …. just different “wrapping” on the bottle to keep the FDA happy!
 
Immune systems still seem to be fighting some major battles in all areas and we know that much of the immune system health originates in gut health. A free bottle of Life 9 probiotic🤩? Yes please!!
 
Seasonal stuff (hello cedar season in North Texas) is here too…… if you haven’t made a little LLPC inhaler or taken a LLPC capsule bomb when needed, you just might be missing out on enjoying Springtime fully (if you tend to get taken down a notch or two by cedar etc) …👀👀lookie, lookie…. all you need is lavender and copaiba (which you probably already have on hand if you’ve been here for 2 minutes🤩) to make that happen!
 
Purification……I use it in the laundry room (extra stinky laundry!), on dogs (we are running a geriatric hospice for a couple of our pups right now😥)…. thankful for Purification and Thieves Household cleaner🙌🙌). Purification is also a stellar “little dab will do ya” on helping keep biting bugs away and also helping stop the itch if you do happen to get bitten 🐜or stung🐝.
 
My most favorite happy oils are Tangerine and Lushious Lemon! Let’s chat about Lushious Lemon for a sec…. While it does smell amazing, it actually has some pretty significant activity on the body (in addition to making smiles!🙂). Inside that bottle is Lemon, Lemon Myrtle, Ylang ylang, Spearmint and Eucalyptus Globulus…… the short sciencey version is this…. supportive of lymphatic, immune system, lungs🫁 and heart🫀 health. See what I mean? Luscious Lemon is a stealth health helper! Don’t be afraid to whip up a room spray with it and use it with wild abandon🕺💃
 
Happy April friends! What’s in your shopping cart that will get you these items for free?
xoxo~ liz
 
PS….. if you are ready to be part of the healthy scene, let’s chat. I’m thrilled to be an active part of my tribe’s individual health journey. Creating a YL account is free. Get yours here, and let’s talk! https://yl.pe/beablessing

Attention Deficit

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Do you find it interesting that the diagnosis of “attention deficit disorder” didn’t exist until 1980? I do. A “diagnosis” is important because without one, insurance companies won’t pay for a treatment. Insurance companies rarely pay for a holistic approach but nearly always pay for a pharmaceutical approach. Follow the money.
 
My formal pharmacist education took place in the late 80’s and very early 90’s where mental health disorders were “absolutely” attributed to a chemical imbalance in the brain. Thankfully, this theory has been debunked (though many people still erroneously believe it to be true, and sadly many many practitioners prescribe as though it is true). Later, it was blamed on genetics. This too has been debunked.
 
Just as with most mental health disorders, there is no biological marker (ie: no affirmative blood work) for diagnosing ADHD. All diagnosis is based on behavioral characteristics: lack of focus ability, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
 
After attention deficit disorder became an official diagnosis in 1980, the % of kiddos said to have it began creeping upwards. By the early 1980’s it was 3%… 5% by 1984….. and 10%+ now. Not coincidentally, 🤔 this timeline also coincides with a massive increase in the childhood vaccination schedule, decreased playtime outdoors, the introduction of and massive increase in screen time, less family time, increased toxin load including glyphosate and heavily processed foods as an eating way of life.
 
THIS is the most important piece of the article below:
” The problem doesn’t necessarily lie within the child, but rather arises from the child’s response to his or her environment. Society could see the “prevalence” of the disorder as a marker of distress in society.”
 
Take some time to read the study ( towards the end of the article) . The outcome of the study can be broken down as such:
 
🔎 There is no evidence in the trial of preschoolers that taking methylphidate actually facilitated better functioning children.
 
🔎 Kids put on methylphenidate frequently suffered moderate to severe adverse events (prone to crying, crabbiness, picking at their skin, insomnia, anxiety, loss of appetite).
 
🔎 At the end of the 10 month trial, the kids were notably shorter (20% less growth) and lighter in weight (52% less than expected).
 
Also of interest in this trial: (excerpt directly from the attached study)
 
👉Many toddlers apparently got better with parent training as a first intervention and parents removed their child from the study as a result.
 
👉In the randomized four-week trial, only 21% had an excellent response to the drug, compared to 13% in the placebo group. This means that if you medicated 100 preschoolers with methylphenidate, there would only be eight additional “excellent responders” than there would have been otherwise.
 
👉Adverse effects on methylphenidate were frequent and told of behavioral deterioration, particularly in the 10-month maintenance phase.
 
👉There is only a small percentage of preschoolers—10% to 15%—that could be said to enjoy a benefit from the treatment in terms of reduction of symptoms over the short term. That means that 85% or so of all toddlers treated with methylphenidate will experience the adverse effects of that drug without receiving any additional benefit, a net result that tells of harm done.
 
👉 The study did have three and six year follow ups with the kids. Here is the outcome: At the 3 year mark 66% were on additional psychiatric drugs, and at the 6 year mark 73% were.
 
Another quote from the article following this information:
“The findings tell of stolen childhoods. These children were diagnosed with ADHD as preschoolers and that turned two-thirds of them into persistent mental patients who grew up constantly on psychiatric drugs. At their tenth birthdays, this group would have no memory of being alive without the mind-altering effects of psychiatric drugs.”
 
Additionally,
” What fate awaits as they move into their teenage years and into adulthood? While there are long lists of adverse effects associated with longer-term use of stimulants and other psychiatric drugs, which collectively tell of impaired physical health and social development, there is an absence of good research on how such drugs may fundamentally alter brain development over time. However, there have been animal studies studying the effects and those studies have sounded an alarm. ” A lifetime of exposure to stimulants in animals demonstrated disinterest in exploring new things, disinterest in the brain’s reward system, reduced ability to experience pleasure.
 
👉One final note on the PATS trial: in the published report of the safety and efficacy results, the authors collectively disclosed 72 “relationships” with pharmaceutical companies, with the manufacturers of ADHD drugs prominent on the list of disclosures. Do you understand what that means? Any study with ties to a pharmaceutical company will be slanted in favor those with the gold.
 
Our country’s babies are the canary in the coalmine.
 
Our job as healthcare professionals👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ should include assessing risk versus benefit and actually presenting that information so that informed decision making can be made as an opportunity to the client. We are the ultimate CEO’s of ourselves and our families. I see posts all the time “this or that”…. and people pick (ie: salty versus sweet). As simple as that sounds, we aren’t choosing blindly because we know what salty and sweet tastes like.
 
….. and yet, taking medication without full disclosure (similar to what I just wrote above regarding methylphenidate) or offering the exploration of an alternative plan of action instead rarely happens. Why is that?🤔 Follow the money. 💰
 
Informed consent. Everyone has a right to choose what works best for themselves and their family….. at least for now. Believe me, they’d like to take that away from each one of us.
 
Don’t give up your right to choose. But choose with informed consent. Do your own research and dig deeply…. beyond what anyone in a white coat tells you. Use your Holy Spirit discernment, and then dig in and do your due diligence. God gave that to each one of us who chooses to use it.
 
xoxo~ liz
 
 
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Children Need Cooties

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Isn’t that snapshot of the microbiome on that child’s hand beautiful? Pretty is as pretty does. Our body NEEDS cooties. Without them, we’d be in a sorry state. Take care of whatcha got, and work to create diversity among the community within you. You won’t regret it! 😉
xoxo~ liz

The microbiome is truly beautiful! 🍄

*This is the hand of an 8-year-old boy who placed his hand on a petri dish after coming inside from playing. Now I am sure at first glance you thought to yourself how disgusting this is and how this MUST be a bad thing, however, it is actually the contrary

  • First I want to point out that we are made up of more foreign matter than we are our own cellular DNA. Let me explain, there are more microbes in and on your body that quantitatively make up more cells than the ones that are YOU
  • The microbiota is said to be about 1.3 for every 1 cell that is our own. These microbes are responsible for keeping us healthy, digesting our food, creating nutrients, assimilating our vitamins/minerals, the processing of our information/neurotransmitters, our immunity and nearly every process and mechanism in the entire body. They exist in your mouth, on your skin and most importantly in your gut. (Terrain)
  • With the continuous rise of industrialized farming, environmental toxins, and even the overuse of hand sanitizers, we are not only depleting the microbes in our soil but the ones on our bodies, too. This is like taking down our force field and allowing the pathogenic bacteria, viruses, mold, and other pathogens to infiltrate. .
  • This post is to continue to create awareness that bacteria/fungus/viruses are not truly “bad,” and we must support a healthy microbiome inside/out. THEY ARE OUR FRIENDS and we must respect life even down to its smallest counterparts
  • The avg. human should have about 3.5lbs of gut flora in the intestines, however, on the standard American diet of overly processed/refined foods and the overconsumption of pesticides/insecticides, as well as the other near 80K man-made chemicals we interact with daily, we would be lucky to have a couple ounces
  • Do your best to avoid high 💯 alcohol-based hand sanitizers as they kill our first line of defense, the same for your mouth, avoid using alcohol-based mouthwashes and synthetic chemicals in/on your bodies; you want to support our little friends, not kill them off. 👾
  • PARENTS this is especially important for your developing children and THEIR microbiome! @tasturm1
    ⌨️ @dr.josepharena
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Parents Must Know!

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“For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you. ” ~ Proverbs 2:10-11

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