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I wanted to talk about gratitude and why it is so powerful for our overall health and well-being. Gratitude can help us in many situations and in these times it might be one of the most important emotions we can express.      The HeartMath Institute has shown science of why positive emotions such as gratitude can be an effective way to lessen stress and create more balance in life. The institute has discovered how the brain and heart are very well connected. That is why practicing gratitude can play a crucial role in your health.  Feeling grateful for anything in your life produces oxytocin in the body which serves to relax the body, blocks out pain, and helps with other health related characteristics. Gratitude can help balance out the nervous system which helps the body heal and increases its adaptability to stress. Gratitude is a powerful feeling and can be practiced anytime. It is easy to wake up and think about all the things that are or could go ...

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-             I hope that everyone had a great weekend and enjoyed some sunshine-get that vitamin D now and help your immune system, never been more important! We had plenty of rain too, which should bring up the May flowers. In this Spring time of year, I think it’s important to realize how life continues and rebuilds itself. This goes for our bodies and immune systems as well. If you are not doing well or feel tired and just not yourself, this means the body is not healing correctly and needs help. Like the flowers and the grass need rain and sunshine, our bodies need nutrients and the digestive ability to absorb them. This is what we do at Natural Health.             I’m sending along an article on where the most likely place is to contract this virus business. The article is good and actually uses some common sense thinking to...

Analysis by  Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE The authors of one study found evidence the risk of COVID-19 is higher in enclosed environments, such as at home or in transportation vehicles German scientists cultured surfaces in one home where people were infected and did not find any live virus; a follow-up study is planned Only one outbreak is known to have been passed outdoors The benefits of being outside may be related to increased vitamin D production and exposure to fresh air In the life of scientific evidence and research, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has only been around a relatively short time, less than six months. When the number of infections across the world began to grow rapidly, scientists scrambled to collect data and make conclusions to reduce the spread and improve treatments. The pandemic has exposed several weaknesses, such as poor preparation with personal protective equipment stockpiles and expired N95 masks, as well as inflexible  food ...

Hello Natural Health Family. I hope everyone was able to enjoy the great weather we had this weekend. It looked like winter made one final comeback, but it looks like now we are off to spring weather. Spring is a great time for change and new beginnings. Only this year it appears the changes seem to be more dramatic. If it feels like life is getting overwhelming or you feel like you have lost direction, it is important to do things that will ground you and keep life in more balance.       Setting some goals that you would like to achieve is a good way to organize your mind. These can be small goals so as to not be overwhelming causing other issues. Setting goals or having a clearer picture of what you want in life can help your mind be more collected and not so  scattered. Goals can be as simple as finding time to help others, calling a friend or relative every week, or setting aside time to do something you want to do.      Mor...

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-             Wasn’t Sunday’s weather excellent? It’s so nice to have sunshine and the temperatures being in the 60s at least. So despite the erroneous mainstream medicines advice that sun causes cancer, please go out and enjoy the sunshine as mankind has been in the sun for millennia and it helps to activate vitamin D which definitely supports and strengthens the immune system. Also the fresh air is great for cleaning out toxins in the body. And as a bonus, the sunshine kills viruses and bacteria, one of the reasons we always seem healthier in the summer.             This week’s article talks about how one New York Dr. is using zinc to help his coronavirus patients and their pulling through it much easier than other conventional doctors care. In the article is this quote from Dr. Mercola-“It’s hard to understand this kind of igno...

How to Improve Zinc Uptake to Boost Immune Health Analysis by  Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Your immune system is your first line of defense against infectious diseases, and there are many different ways to boost and improve its function Zinc is one nutrient that plays a very important role in your immune system’s ability to ward off viral infections, and may play a vastly underrated role in the COVID-19 pandemic Zinc is vital for healthy immune function and a combination of zinc with a zinc ionophore (zinc transport molecule) was in 2010 shown to block viral replication of SARS coronavirus in a cell culture within minutes Zinc alone is incapable of fully stopping viral replication as it cannot easily enter through the fatty wall of a cell. Getting all the way into the cell is crucial, as this is where the viral replication occurs The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine appears to work against COVID-19 by improving zinc uptake into cells. Natural zinc ionophor...

            I hope that you had a great and Blessed Easter, and was able to get into the mood of the day. It sure was strange not being able to go to church, especially on Easter Sunday. Again we’re seeing signs that this will be over soon but we all need to look at our health status and keep this from happening again. Mainstream medicine is doing their thing right now and helping people to make it through their illness, which is great, but just treating people over and over with medications is not helping people get healthy and vibrant.             I’ve included an article today that reports 99% of the Italian fatality’s had pre-existing diabetes or heart disease. I think we will find that the statistics from other countries will show a similar trend. We all knew that people with lowered immunity would be the ones hardest hit. It’s time for us to get away from this main...

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it and happy spring to all others. Springtime marks the time for new beginnings. A time, especially in the situation at hand, that creates change in our lives. In what seems to be a time of darkness and confusion, we will emerge in a new light.  Let’s talk about darkness and light in regards to health. It is our human nature when we get hurt or have a certain health problem come up we look outside of us for answers. We tend to think that we must have “caught” something when we feel ill. Like the primitive man before, if a branch fell from a tree and hit us we would naturally think that pain and illness happens from outside the body. We would then be focused on our external environment and always scanning what is around us that may cause us ill. When we think this way, we become more focused on the problem or darkness of our lives. This causes us to always seek answers to why we have a problem or what the problem is. We tend to seek other...

Want to Defeat Coronavirus? Address Diabetes and Hypertension  Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola TORY AT-A-GLANCE In Italy, more than 99% of fatalities from COVID-19 occurred among people who had underlying medical conditions The finding came from an examination of 18% of Italy’s COVID-19 deaths, which revealed that only three people who died — or 0.8% — had no underlying conditions Among Italy’s COVID-19 fatalities, 76.1% had high blood pressure, 35.5% had diabetes and 33% had heart disease Underlying health conditions like heart disease and diabetes are linked to “poorer clinical outcomes,” such as admission to an intensive care unit (ICU), a need for invasive ventilation or death, among COVID-19 patients To beat COVID-19, one of the best strategies is to get your underlying chronic conditions under control; even diabetes and high blood pressure can often be reversed via healthy diet and lifestyle While the World Health Organization has put the death rate fro...