The Blueberry Smoothie Incident (...and other musings)

A Day in the Life of Marlee Jacob by Sharon Farrow

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Both sexes suffer from the ACNE plague in our teens, but girls get more than their fair share. Their menses gets screwed from being irregular to painful and later into the infertility hell.

Blueberry-Raspberry-Strawberry Smoothie

PCOS is just another way of saying how screwed up the female hormonal system is. So if this young woman would give up these two major negatives, her health would start improvng overnight while simultaneously dropping pounds, releasing energy, which then would grant her the freedom to start the activities she really enjoys, and consequently, could be really tired enough to go to bed at night and get some darned good sleep. There are so many choices to help people find out how to help themselves.

Let food be thy medicine. So we are all on our own. You are too kind.

Three years ago, a psychotherapist learned of Energy Medicine at a conference. At that time, she was suffering from Lyme disease and a constellation of symptoms, including high anxiety, intense sadness, and fear. She now finds her life filled with promise and opportunity.

At that time, she was suffering from a deeply embedded, long-term sadness over her inability to have a second child. She had become pregnant after using fertility drugs but miscarried at 11 weeks into the pregnancy. She was overcome by grief. Though she expected to move through the grief and on to emotional recovery, her body was so depleted by the loss that it was vulnerable. In this state, she contracted Lyme disease which resulted in a cycle of fear and worry that she now had a chronic condition from which she would never recover.

It was in that state that Sally first began working with Eden Energy Medicine. She had learned of Donna while attending a conference for psychotherapists, but she had not done any formal training. Still, determined to find some measure of healing, she invited a group of friends over to her house on Sunday evenings to watch Donna teach the five-day introduction to Energy Medicine on DVD. It was a leap of faith for Sally, since neither she nor any of her friends knew anything about Energy Medicine.

Sally has been feeling well for many months and has been symptom-free and off all medications for eight months. Just three weeks ago, she got confirmation that the Lyme disease had been healed. She has had three different tests for inflammation in the body and for evidence of common Lyme co-infections.

Each of those tests had given very high readings when she was in the midst of the disease and are now all in the normal range. Her hyperthyroid condition, which seemed to be related to the Lyme disease, has disappeared. Her thyroid tests are in the normal range. Sally feels that EM was a critical factor in her healing. She continued to work with a doctor throughout her healing process, but feels that without EM the traditional medical approach would never have yielded such a positive result.

She notes that with the exception of just a few sessions she received from others, all of her EM work has been self applied. She attributes her success to her persistent application of the basics. Sally also found that as her spleen energy came into its natural strength, she joyfully opened to the idea of alternative parental choices.

June 1, 2017

Her family is now pursuing adoption. I have befriended triple warmer and my heart is wide open.

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The hum is created by a cluster of powerful pumps forcing millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into six deep wells. The state has issued permits to drill as many as wells in Carroll County. If every well is drilled in Carroll County, companies will use as much as million gallons of water to free the oil and gas. Across Ohio, as many as 2, Utica wells could be drilled by the end of , according to state estimates. Industry officials say the process is safe. The change alone in Car-roll County is huge.

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That year, Carroll County residents, farms and businesses drew Most heavy industries that need water, including power companies, locate their plants and mills next to large lakes and rivers. Companies must get their water from wells or other water sources and either pump it to drilling sites in pipelines or drive it there in tanker trucks. An analysis of state groundwater maps shows that the aquifers in 12 counties in the Utica shale region produce a maximum of 5 gallons of water per minute. With the possibility of drilling more than 2, wells in the next three years, drilling companies are increasingly signing contracts with counties, cities, townships and regional agencies to draw water from public reservoirs and lakes.

At least a dozen oil and gas companies have filed requests with the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District to buy water from six reservoirs in eastern Ohio. Officials delayed plans to begin selling water for fracking after residents objected earlier this year. They are now awaiting a U. Geological Survey study of the Atwood, Leesville and Clendening reservoirs to determine how much water can be sold off without harming the environment or recreation.

The drawdown releases more than 6 billion gallons of water from both lakes to increase storage capacity for thawed snow and ice during winter months. Officials said the amount of water oil and gas companies need for drilling is a small fraction of the drawdown. While government groups are debating water sales, oil and gas companies are signing agreements with private landowners to buy access to their wells and ponds. Since January , shale-drilling companies and fracking contractors have registered at least 62 water withdrawals in 16 counties.

State law requires companies to register with the state if they intend to take more than , gallons a day from a pond or stream in the Ohio River basin. Companies that take at least 2 million gallons a day must get a state permit. A well there helps supply the reservoir.

The drilling company, Chesapeake Energy, says a lake on yet another farm also provides water for its fracking operation there. Paul Feezel, the leader of a group called Carroll Concerned Citizens, said he fears that these companies could drain water that farmers use for drinking and livestock. He mentioned the Chesapeake water well as a potential threat. Kristin Meyer, the clean-water program director for the Ohio Environmental Council, said the state should create limits up front.

Hallfrisch said his office monitors stream-flow gauges and ground-water levels and advises drilling companies to avoid drawing water during dry or drought conditions. But companies could risk fines for harming wildlife in a dewatered stream. How much water is that? Nearly 78 percent of the 3.

That thirst, however, is on the wane. In , for example, power plants used 3. Industry officials attribute that to the recession, which has reduced demand for electricity.

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Less electricity means less coal and less water is needed. Power companies will take even less water in years to come as more old coal-fired generators close in the face of tougher federal clean-air regulations. The biggest changes will come in , when new limits on mercury and other toxic air pollutants take effect. American Electric Power plans to retire its Picway plant, a generator at its Conesville Plant and four of its Muskingum River plant generators by June Industry officials are quick to point out that most of the water that power plants draw in is returned to streams and lakes, but usually much warmer.

Melissa McHenry said that AEP has had to cut back generation at plants along the Muskingum River when stream levels were low in order to avoid overheating the stream and harming wildlife. It started in your house. These pollutants are the unused drugs we flush down the toilet as well as the bits of medications that we pass from our bodies. They include birth-control pills, antidepressants, blood-pressure medications and antibiotics. Many of these pollutants, which hospitals, pharmacies and factory farms dump into waste water, are measured in parts per trillion.

Environmental Protection Agency limits in drinking water. But research shows that estrogen and other birth-control drugs might cause male fish to develop ovaries. Environmental Protection Agency is completing a survey looking for about drugs and other chemicals in tap water at about 50 sites across the United States. The creek bed is laden with PCBs, which are banned chemicals. Polluted streams — dozens statewide — pose critical problems for fish, wildlife and humans. Harmful compounds, including mercury, can work their way up the food chain, passing from microbes to fish and then to people.

Other contaminants threaten drinking-water supplies and cost taxpayers millions to purify. The same goes for work to repair 1, miles of streams in southern and eastern Ohio rendered nearly lifeless by a mix of sulfuric acid and metals that continues to seep from century-old abandoned coal mines.

Recent steps to scrub air pollutants — especially mercury — from coal-fired power plants, raise hopes that Ohio streams can recover. Yet there is some hope. Power plants must cut their emissions by 90 percent by , according to U. EPA rules enacted last year. The government hopes that mercury levels in streams and rivers will dissipate, but no one knows how long that will take. The total cost for the project is unclear.

In February, Ohio EPA officials lifted no contact and do not eat warnings for a 5-mile stretch of the Ottawa River after tests of fish there showed significant drops in chemicals, including PCBs and PAHs, or polyhydroxyalkanoates, which are bio-plastics. The Great Lakes Legacy Act paid for half of the cost and a partnership of 10 companies and the City of Toledo paid for the rest.

The dredging removed more than , cubic yards of contaminated sediment, including nearly 3 tons of PCBs and 40 tons of PAHs. The partnership continues to work on the Ottawa, transforming it from little more than a ditch where it flows through the University of Toledo into a meandering stream with a flood plain. Restoration efforts include slowing the flow of storm-water that runs off of nearby parking lots and roofs and catching road salt and vehicle pollutants before they reach tributary streams that flow into the Ottawa.

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The idea is to trap pollutants in storm water before it runs into Sibley Creek, a key Ottawa River tributary. State mining officials have significantly increased funding to clean streams poisoned by old abandoned coal mines. Hundreds of mines legally abandoned by companies — some more than a century ago — leak sulfuric acid, iron and aluminum into streams. The mixture stains stream bottoms orange and white and leaves the waterways nearly lifeless.

The scope of this cleanup is immense. McCament is a former coordinator of the Raccoon Creek Partnership, a group committed to cleaning the southern Ohio stream of the same name. McCament said the Ohio Department of Transportation paid for four acid mine drainage cleanup projects as part of an agreement with federal officials to replace environmental losses caused by its Rt. The projects placed materials including limestone to remove acid and dissolved metals from the water.

No money, no cleanup. There is a stretch of the Little Scioto River southwest of Marion that has been toxic since the s. The Baker Wood Preserving Co. Rain water likely washed the poison from the yard into a nearby sewer line, officials say. The company continued the practice until it closed in the s. EPA completed partial cleanups in and that dredged more than 68, tons of creosote from a 1.

More than 3 miles of contamination remain, with no source of funds to clean the stream. The Little Scioto was named a Superfund site in September The federal program, which provides money for environmental cleanups, lists more than 1, toxic sites in need of funding. At the time, Steve Snyder, the U. Guess we have come to expect such enchantment with all her degrees and expertise. When pathogenic bacteria take over, the result can be a disaster for your health. This can deplete your immunity.

It can also cause allergies, auto-immune diseases, cancer, hormonal imbalances, the inability to lose weight and much more. This can help to replenish the numbers of healthy gut bacteria in your gut. But the truth is that many probiotic foods and supplements are completely ineffective. Are Your Probiotics D. If you read the small print on probiotic supplements, you may see something like: The friendly bacteria found in these products are very fragile.

They can be easily destroyed with the time and heat that comes with transit and storage. In the case of sauerkraut, these products are vinegar-cured, instead of fermented. And the kefir in the dairy section is usually heat-pasteurized. That may increase the shelf life.

But it destroys most of the billions of friendly flora that would find in a raw, lacto-fermented version. But a company called Inner-Eco has solved this problem with their line of coconut kefir products. This fermented milk beverage originated when shepherds of the Caucasus Mountains packed their milk in leather pouches, where it would ferment into a living food. Kefir is believed to be one of the main reasons that people of this region live such long often over one hundred years and disease-free lives.

Instead, they use freshly harvested coconut water from young green coconuts. They add the kefir culture and let the fermentation process work its microbial magic. Best of all, it is lab tested to contain an average of over billion live, health-supporting cultures per serving. I like to think of it as probiotic champagne. Or you can add it to smoothies and juice drinks for a powerful probiotic punch. Pick up a bottle of Inner-Eco in their Original, Wild Berry or Tropical flavor to make your friendly flora flourish today!

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