Rejected Rejection

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from Wayne & Tamara
Rejected Rejection
  I was wondering if I could get your help with a relationship I’m currently in, or rather, was in. I met this girl six months ago and it was love at first sight. We moved in together a few months later. Everything seemed to be going well. About a month ago we broke up and I was devastated.
We said we would be friends once we were comfortable with it. Now we have reached that comfort zone, though it is hard on me. One night about two weeks ago I told her I still had feelings for her. She said she didn’t have those feelings for me anymore, and only cared about me and worried about me. She said she doesn’t want a serious relationship right now because she is only 20 and doesn’t want to be tied down. Well, we went through that and moved on to “just friends.” It is still very strange being around her. We do things together. But every now and then she does something that makes me think she has feelings for me. We still seem to flirt with one another. Maybe she doesn’t realize it, but I get mixed feelings and signals from her. At times, when we are close together, it seems like a moment to kiss her. But I pull away because I don’t want to betray the fragile friendship we’ve worked to achieve.
I guess what I’m asking is if it is possible for people who were once in love, then become friends, to go back to being in love. If so, how do I know when the time is right and she feels the same way.
Owen
Owen, the 19th century humorist Josh Billings said, “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” It wasn’t love at first sight. It was desire at first sight. You didn’t know her then. Your relationship started based on what you could see on the outside. It was not based on what was inside her.
Perhaps you swept her up in your feelings for her, but friendship was not the basis of attraction. In a few seconds of looking at her in a moment of her life, you felt something. If you had seen her on her worst hair day, when she went shopping hoping no one would see her, the result might have been different.
Stop acting like a sleuth trying to detect her inner thoughts from a toss of her head, the way she holds her hands, or the dilation of her pupils. She speaks plain English. In plain English she said no.
You didn’t get involved to be her friend, and you are proving to yourself and now to us that you do not want friendship with her. Don’t hang around hoping for a weak moment or looking for signals that contradict her words. Because of your feelings and your desires, you cannot trust how you perceive her.
Life will be tough if you don’t think other people have the same rights you do. If you can tell her to be your girlfriend, some woman can tell you to be her boyfriend. And if you want what you want regardless of what she wants, you don’t care about her. There is a lesson here: you want someone who wants you with the same passion you want them. No less should be accepted. You deserve that, and it is the only thing which will work.
That’s the truth. But as Josh Billings said, scarce as truth is, the demand is always less than the supply.
Wayne & Tamara        
 Send letters to: DirectAnswers@WayneAndTamara.comas wondering if I could get your help with a relationship I’m currently in, or rather, was in. I met this girl six months ago and it was love at first sight. We moved in together a few months later. Everything seemed to be going well. About a month ago we broke up and I was devastated.
We said we would be friends once we were comfortable with it. Now we have reached that comfort zone, though it is hard on me. One night about two weeks ago I told her I still had feelings for her. She said she didn’t have those feelings for me anymore, and only cared about me and worried about me. She said she doesn’t want a serious relationship right now because she is only 20 and doesn’t want to be tied down. Well, we went through that and moved on to “just friends.” It is still very strange being around her. We do things together. But every now and then she does something that makes me think she has feelings for me. We still seem to flirt with one another. Maybe she doesn’t realize it, but I get mixed feelings and signals from her. At times, when we are close together, it seems like a moment to kiss her. But I pull away because I don’t want to betray the fragile friendship we’ve worked to achieve.
I guess what I’m asking is if it is possible for people who were once in love, then become friends, to go back to being in love. If so, how do I know when the time is right and she feels the same way.
Owen
Owen, the 19th century humorist Josh Billings said, “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” It wasn’t love at first sight. It was desire at first sight. You didn’t know her then. Your relationship started based on what you could see on the outside. It was not based on what was inside her.
Perhaps you swept her up in your feelings for her, but friendship was not the basis of attraction. In a few seconds of looking at her in a moment of her life, you felt something. If you had seen her on her worst hair day, when she went shopping hoping no one would see her, the result might have been different.
Stop acting like a sleuth trying to detect her inner thoughts from a toss of her head, the way she holds her hands, or the dilation of her pupils. She speaks plain English. In plain English she said no.
You didn’t get involved to be her friend, and you are proving to yourself and now to us that you do not want friendship with her. Don’t hang around hoping for a weak moment or looking for signals that contradict her words. Because of your feelings and your desires, you cannot trust how you perceive her.
Life will be tough if you don’t think other people have the same rights you do. If you can tell her to be your girlfriend, some woman can tell you to be her boyfriend. And if you want what you want regardless of what she wants, you don’t care about her. There is a lesson here: you want someone who wants you with the same passion you want them. No less should be accepted. You deserve that, and it is the only thing which will work.
That’s the truth. But as Josh Billings said, scarce as truth is, the demand is always less than the supply.
Wayne & Tamara        
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A Seeing-Eye Dog Wins First W. Gifford-Jones Prize for Humanity

By W. Gifford-Jones M.D.
A Seeing-Eye Dog Wins First W. Gifford-Jones Prize for Humanity
          Readers may ask why I chose to award a Service Dog the first W. Gifford-Jones Prize for Humanity. And wonder why human achievement was ignored. There were plenty of reasons and it required only moments for me to choose a seeing-eye dog.
          It’s been aptly said that, “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself!”

          Harry S. Truman, former President of the U.S., an astute observer of the political scene in Washington, once remarked, “If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.” Truman knew a dog would provide unconditional love regardless of what happened during his Presidency.
          The prize winner, Ulysses, will devote his entire life to the welfare of one person with decreased vision and protect her from danger. How many people are willing to give up everything in life to care for a single person, even a loved one, for the rest of their lives? It’s a near impossible assignment.
          So, when I recently presented a check to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) and also placed a medallion around the neck of Ulysses, an animal of uncommon devotion and intelligence, the intention was to send a powerful message. Can humans live up to the high standards and demanding tests this dog has endured?
          Consider human history. Animals in the jungle kill only to eat. Humans have been slaughtering each other in the name of religion, the colour of their skin or some other insane reason for over two thousand years. Prejudice, bigotry and horrendous cruelty rage still. I see no end.

           How long must we witness young children washed up dead on a Mediterranean beach? Or those scavenging for food, shelter, medical attention, or looking for dead parents where buildings lie in ruins after senseless wars. In our world, evil, destruction, and cruelty have known no bounds. And I hope there is a special place in hell for world leaders who incite this continuing carnage and suffering.
          Seeing-eye dogs never commit such sins. Nor will Ulysses, unlike humans, fall victim to “Pillitis”, demanding a pill for every anxiety and every ache and pain. The U.S. Center for Health Statistics reports that for those over the age of 12 years, 13 percent are taking antidepressant drugs! If you don’t think that represents a sick society you’re smoking too much marijuana.
          Some humans have also caused me a pile of trouble. For instance, Ulysses will never lie or be associated with human hypocrisy. Years ago I fought to legalize heroin to ease the agony of terminal cancer. Yet critics and major organizations lied repeatedly about its value causing needless suffering. It was only after I visited England, did my own research, and proved they were telling a pack of lies, that heroin was finally legalized in 1984.
          Today the hypocrisy continues. Some addiction clinics are providing heroin addicts three injections of heroin daily. Yet in a survey of Toronto’s teaching hospitals I discovered that there is not one milligram of heroin available for patients dying of terminal cancer pain. This is human hypocrisy at its worst.
          Let’s end on a happier note. Seeing-eye puppies begin their training at 16 months of age which lasts 26 weeks. During that time they work in all weather conditions except if it’s too hot.

          The course is intensive and requires extremely intelligent dogs. In the end, only about half of those trained become service dogs.

          We all encounter a seeing-eye dog occasionally and invariably they kindle respect and admiration. The temptation is to want to pet them. Don’t do it.

          Remember, the working dog is bent on protecting his owner at all cost. So pretend he’s not there. Any distraction could result in an accident, for which you would be responsible.

          So, considering the incredible devotion of this dog Ulysses and the humanitarian work of the CNIB society, why wouldn’t we want the first Gifford-Jones Prize winner to be a member of the canine race? They are what humans should be. There’s no contest.
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In The Spirit of Christmas

Logic
By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”
  
In The Spirit of Christmas
    I It took me years to fully appreciate Santa’s real HO, HO, HO.
When in reality it is more like HOW, HOW, HOW...
How did we not know GM was going to leave?
How is it that we the people of Canada  failed to plan for the closure of GM?
How can we stand against corporate Canada and send a message, ‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’?
Allow me to explain.   I know to some this column many not be what  would be expected as b eing Christmas and all I should be more traditional.   I feel this has to be said.
Oshawa, has been given a huge blow to it’s image, industry, commerce and people.   GM announced that they will be finally closing operations.  This meaning that an icon in Oshawa will no longer be.  This after billions of tax payers dollars were invested over the years.  Only to have GM without civic conscious think first of their bottom dollar and make such closure announcements.
   Soon after the GM announcement droves of politician at all levels of government putting on the shocked face and pretending to care and pledge to do something about it.    How can we even begin to save Oshawa GM from leaving when Oshawa municipal government has known for years and decided to do nothing to prevent it and or circumvent it by immediately going aggressively after other industry to offset this huge loss.
Soon after the announcement the Provincial government was noted waving a white flag and putting up their hands surrendering to GM corporate greed.   Our Federal leader was to busy playing Canadian Royalty in Argentina and kissing royal Saudi ass for business to even acknowledge where Oshawa was on the map.    In turn the people of Oshawa are left at the will of the Union to gather up the troops and create some sort of momentum to get politicians involved.
Just this week the Union held a rally of sort at Memorial Park.   Not the Mayor or the newly elected regional chair attended.  One would think...that whatever they had scheduled would take a back seat to supporting the local Union attempting to do what the city elect should have been doing.   Gathering up the people and put pressure on GM to stay.
I must say that the Union is trying... the question is.. is it doing enough and is it on the right track.   I think an announcement of this magnitude calls for more than a public awareness campaign.  I think personally all the union bosses should get together and in solidarity call for all membership across Canada of all unions shut the country down.
This would be sending a major message to Ottawa that the people of Canada will not become slaves to Corporate Canada.     We the people matter and we the people have a voice.  So if it means jail time for some of the union bosses.   Let it be.   If it means going against the wishes of corporate Canada.   let it be.   Let’s put a stop to this raping of our land by corporations.  We are not just a number.  We are hard working people that deserve our government to protect us from all threats.   A nation wide shut down will force the government to take some serious concern.   We can’t wait and see.   As you read this.  GM Oshawa is possibly selling off all equipment... Should we wait until they are done... and have to deal with the impact of their greed?   Who will clean up their environmental mess they leave behind?   In my estimate 40% of Oshawa has been contaminated by GM manufacturing.    Lakeview park, the harbor, the courthouse lands,  along Grandview Street north to name a few... not to mention the mess that will be left at the south plant.   I  hope that 2019 brings greatness.  My heart goes out to all the families affected and to all of the people of Oshawa.  Let’s make them pay.  Merry Christmas.

H.W. Bush vs. The Donald

H.W. Bush vs. The Donald
By Larry Klayman
It's good for the nation and our collective human soul to pay homage to a former president who has just passed on. I too mourn and pay respect to the death of the former 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush. However, there were a number of things that turned me off about the over-the-top and in many respects hypocritical celebration of this man and his son, George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States who gave the eulogy at his Dad's funeral.
The first thing that bothered me was the rank hypocrisy of the left-wing media, which in order to use H.W. as a sword against another president, Donald J. Trump, whom they truly hate, hypocritically sought to deify 41 – calling him a great gentlemen and statesman. But, notwithstanding President Bush's public persona of being gracious, facts speak louder than cultivated appearances.
Lest we all forget, as the left-wing media have been excoriating our current president for not severely sanctioning Saudi Arabia – which we all can agree is run by ruthless Muslim Wahhabi Muslims – they conveniently overlooked the fact that H.W. post-presidency literally and greedily extracted about a billion dollars from the Osama bin Laden family to fill the coffers of an investment company he became associated with: the Carlyle Group. Years later, H.W.'s son, W., would use the FBI to return the "favor" by quickly whisking members of the Saudi royal family out of the country in the hours after the horrific Sept. 11, 2001, attack so they could avoid interrogation.
In short, Daddy Bush, his compromised president son and all charter members of the Texas oil cabal kissed the derriere of their rich Saudi benefactors, bowing down to their "largesse." In the face of this, President Trump is trashed, even by establishment Republicans like Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bob Corker for not sufficiently punishing the Saudis for the death of a non-citizen, Washington Post Muslim "columnist" Jamal Khashoggi. Recognizing that Saudi Arabia is now a necessary ally to check the Iranian terrorist "nuclear" regime – "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" – The Donald exercised admirable restraint in not overreacting. Indeed, since when is it news that Sunni Muslims have little respect generally for human life with regard to even their own, much less Judeo-Christian "infidels"?
Second, there was H.W.'s meaningless war to "liberate Kuwait" when Saddam Hussein invaded this Muslim nation to seize its oil assets. Bush having armed his then-ally Saddam with biological and chemical weapons to fend off Shiite Iran, this war was simply about oil. Ask yourself this: Even if Iraq had not been thrown out of Kuwait, would Iraqi occupation have taken Kuwaiti petroleum off the world market, driving oil prices up? Absolutely not!
In the ironic words of Hillary Clinton post-Benghazi, "what difference does it make" which despotic Muslim regime owned and marketed the oil? And, to underscore the Kuwaitis' lack of appreciation for H.W.'s and our nation's having bailed its dictatorial Islamic regime out of Iraqi occupation, just last Thursday it conspired with Bolivia at the United Nations to procedurally deep-six an American resolution condemning Hamas terrorism in the Gaza Strip. So much for risking and sacrificing American lives and bodies for H.W.'s meaningless crusade.
Third, there was Bush's other most notable if not despicable lie to the American public during his Republican National Convention nomination address in 1988. Asking the citizenry to "read his lips" that there would be no new taxes, the 41st president went back and dishonestly reneged on his word, and in fact later agreed with the Democrats to raise taxes. This falsehood is reminiscent of former President Barack Hussein Obama's promise that Obamacare meant you could keep your doctor. By contrast, President Trump has sought to honor his promises to the American people.
Fourth, there was H.W.'s clueless stewardship of the economy. By the end of his presidency the economy was literally headed into the tank. To the contrary, President Donald Trump's economic policies have stimulated the economy and created new jobs for millions of Americans.
But the biggest contrast between our current fearless leader and H.W. is The Donald's simple even if sometimes crass direct honesty. Unlike H.W. and most of the "Bush aristocracy," Trump does not hold himself out as nobility or holier than thou. He calls events and situations as he sees them. Thus, as just one among many examples, judges are held out to dry for their prejudices, a subject dear to me as the founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch.
In short, Trump does not mince works nor couch his actions for the sake of appearances as part of the nation's "political nobility," and while boasting of his accomplishments, he does not pretend to be of an elitist establishment class.
What is most telling, if not the ultimate litmus test, revealing the huge differences between H.W. and Trump, is that while The Donald has rightly called Hillary Clinton a crook and called for her to be locked up, H.W. proudly announced after the last 2016 presidential election that he voted for her. And his son W., following his narrow election to the presidency in 2000 and after 40 Clinton era scandals, wasted no time inviting Bill and Hill to the White House for "tea and crumpets." Indeed, the two families – or should I say "crime families" – have become very close over the last 18 years! Disgusting! Need I say more.
So finally, while I do mourn the death of President H.W. Bush out of respect for the presidency and the end of a human life, President Donald J. Trump is far more worthy of the office than his Bush predecessors. So when I saw how the leftist media were using H.W., as well as some "Never Trumper" Republicans, as a foil to cleverly disparage if not trash Trump, I felt like throwing up.
The Bush family is not all bad, and in fact I have always liked Jeb as a person. But as for H.W., he was not the "best," and W. hardly the "brightest" of presidents, to put it most diplomatically. To the contrary, should Donald J. Trump survive the likes of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and their undaunted march to impeachment, our current president, who puts America and its citizenry first and does not try to appear morally and ethically superior, but recognizes and will forcefully confront the "facts of life," will in the end prove to be far "greater" than the elder Bush and his son.
Death cannot and should not rewrite history, even if many have short memories!

Tough Love

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from Wayne & Tamara
 Tough Love
I do love your column, but I find that the merit of working out troubles is not presented sufficiently. I am an alcoholic, and I am married to one. We have been married for 10 years. With all the problems of marriage, alcohol, and other things, I think it is very important to work things out.   People who write you have problems, and you always suggest breaking away. We have two lovely boys. I can’t just walk out on this. So I quit drinking, but he didn’t. I still have faith in him. He will in due time, though I keep getting back to drinking when he doesn’t quit.
He has not been in trouble with the law over his drinking or drug use so far, so he feels infallible. I haven’t either, but I feel it’s important to try to quit before it’s too late. Everybody has their problems, you too probably, so don’t let people give up hope, because there might be hope. If there is no hope, there is not life. I wish you the best. Keep up the good work. Noelle
Noelle, it appears you don’t think we should tell people they can get out of a bad situation they are powerless to change. We don’t crush hope. We encourage it. We encourage people to make changes for themselves. We tell them they can change their lives. Often that means doing the hard thing and leaving behind a person who chooses not to change. On the surface it appears you have compassion for your husband. That compassion comes at a grave price to your sons. Alcoholics and alcoholism define their world. It’s only reasonable to assume they will grow up with the standard outcomes from living in an alcoholic household.
They will only guess what normal is. They will be impulsive and struggle with intimate relationships. They will have trouble completing projects, judge themselves without mercy, and suffer from a deep, undiagnosed depression. Even if your husband finally quits, your boys are likely to be grown before it happens, and the damage will be done. You don’t address an obvious undercurrent in your letter. Your husband is your excuse to drink. Staying with him allows you to drink because he is drinking, and neither of you will quit for the sake of the children. Parents define a child’s world, and you are both under the influence of alcohol.
In “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit from three ghosts. The first shows him the past, and the second the present. After each visit Scrooge can still say, “Bah, humbug.” It’s as if Dickens tried to be nice to Scrooge, then realized he had to be hard to be kind.
Only the third ghost can change Scrooge. That ghost shows Scrooge his own death and desolate gravestone. In desperation Scrooge cries out, “Why show me this, if I am beyond all hope.”
But Scrooge was not beyond hope. As Dickens explained, “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.” If you want a different life, you must do different things.
Don’t tell us it’s hard. We know that.
For your own sake, for the sake of your sobriety, and for your sons’ sake, you must act. But we won’t stop telling people they can redesign their life, and that the only person they can change is themselves.
Wayne & Tamara       Send letters to: DirectAnswers@WayneAndTamara.com

Remedies to Prevent Death from AAA
          Ask anyone about AAA and they will immediately think of the American Automobile Association. But in this case it stands for abdominal aortic aneurysm.  Sir William Osler once remarked, “There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.” He could have added that it’s a lethal disease, so prevention is better than cure.              
          Every year over 20,000 North Americans die from a ruptured aorta. Albert Einstein, the physicist who expounded the Theory of Relativity, and Lucille Ball, the TV star that made us laugh, both died of AAA. So, what causes the aorta, about the size of a garden hose, the largest artery in the body, to rupture?
 Getting a little stiff in various parts of our body is one of the problems of aging. But arterial stiffness, known as hardening of arteries, is particularly hazardous when it happens to the abdominal aorta. A sudden rupture can result in death in a few minutes. And studies show that about 5 percent of men over age 65 have some degree of AAA. It’s also five times more common in males than females. Sir William Osler, Professor of Medicine at McGill, John’s Hopkins, and Oxford University, remarked that, “It’s good to be born with good rubber.” In effect, to have soft, elastic, arteries that expand and contract with each beat of the heart.  But as we age arteries often become rigid, resulting in hypertension, heart attack, stroke and rupture due to an aneurysm. The cause is arterial calcification which can affect the aorta, coronary arteries and valves of the heart.  To reduce the risk of calcification it’s important to block its penetration into arteries as soon as possible. Several studies show that people with a higher intake of vitamin K2 have less risk of arterial calcification. But calcium is also an essential mineral to sustain life. In fact, without sufficient calcium we could not maintain the electrolyte balance needed for the normal rhythm of the heart. In a healthy body, 99 percent of calcium is stored in bone where it provides structural support. The amount of calcium allowed into the blood stream is strictly controlled.    Dr. Dennis Goodman, cardiologist and Director of Integrative Medicine at New York University, says that “Ignoring vitamin K2 is dangerous. Few are aware of how K2 aids bone health, but even fewer know how it helps cardiovascular health.”  The great risk is that a deficiency of K2 increases the risk that calcium will be deposited in the aorta. These calcium deposits weaken the wall, increasing the risk of rupture and sudden death. A Dutch study of 4,600 men aged 55 and older showed that a high intake of vitamin K2 decreased the risk of aortic calcification by an amazing 52 percent.
Since K2 is not easy to obtain in the diet, various supplements are available. For instance, K2 drops also contain vitamin A and D as all three are needed for bone health. And as we age, vitamin A also helps to improve night vision.  What is not mentioned in most studies is that a combination of vitamin C and lysine also strengthens the wall of the aorta and other arteries. This helps to decrease the risk of aortic rupture, coronary attack and stroke. Pills of vitamin C and lysine are effective. But for those who dislike swallowing large numbers of pills  Medi-C Plus and other brands of powdered C along with vitamin K2 Plus A and D drops are available at Health Food Stores.                                           Pathologists have known for years that arteries are soft and flexible in youth. But with age, calcification occurs in the soft tissues of the body, particularly arteries. So one secret for longevity is to keep calcium in bone where it belongs, and out of the aorta, coronary arteries and those in the brain where it can prematurely end life.  Osler was right. It’s good to be born with good rubber. But if this doesn’t happen, vitamin K2 along with high amounts of vitamin C and lysine, is the way to keep arteries elastic and increase longevity.   Online docgiff.com Comments info@docgiff.com

Today's nutrition topic, due to popular demand: what hormones affect weight gain/weight loss and body composition.

Healthy Living
Healthy Eating
from Marissa Liana
 Certified Nutritional Practitioner/Health Coach
Today's nutrition topic, due to popular demand:
what hormones affect weight gain/weight loss and body
composition.
For the purpose of length and efficiency, today I will be talking only about 5 of the main hormones that affect weight gain/weight loss and body composition.
THE 5 HORMONES: CORTISOL, THYROID HORMONES, ESTROGEN, TESTOSTERONE, INSULIN Other hormones worthy of mention which I wont be talking about today are leptin, growth hormone and glucagon. Let me know in the comments section if you want me to continue this conversation and explain these as well in their relation to body composition.  To begin, hormones are chemical messengers that travel through your bloodstream to your tissues or organs. Even a slight hormonal imbalance may have a significant effect on your metabolism, which controls the rate your body transforms the food and drink we eat into usable energy.
1) CORTISOL - Cortisol is a stress hormone that is produced by our adrenal glands (aka the fight or flight glands).
From a weight and body composition perspective, cortisol is a catabolic hormones (meaning to break down - as opposed to build up, which is what anabolic hormones do, such as testosterone). 
Cortisol increases blood sugar when levels fall too low and/or during stressful situations so we have adequate sugar in our blood to use as energy in a stressful event. Elevated cortisol levels also disrupt our body’s ability to covert our T4 thyroid hormone into the active T3 hormone, — and many of us know thyroid hormones are responsible for controlling our metabolic rate.
It is important to know that elevated cortisol and elevated stress can come in the form of dietary stress, under-eating, over exercising, emotional stress and environmental stress.
Which brings me into the next hormones - thyroid hormones!
2) THYROID HORMONES (specifically T4 AND T3) - When you don’t have enough of these important hormones, your metabolism slows down, resulting in weight gain and trouble losing weight. Thyroid hormones are affected by nutrient deficiencies such as iodine, selenium and zinc, as well as elevated stress levels and adrenal burnout.   To support your thyroid, reduce stressors in your life and make sure you’re getting adequate nutrients needed to support proper thyroid function as mentioned.
3) ESTROGEN - Estrogen is an anabolic sex hormone that influences gene expression, cell growth and is responsible for the development and regulation of the female reproductive system and secondary female sexual characteristics.  Unfortunately, the more abdominal fat we have, the more estrogen we produce as fat cells produce estrogen, and then this becomes a viscous cycle as fat cells produce estrogen and estrogen influences fat retention.
Elevated estrogen levels can be due to elevated fat, as well as xenoestrogens in the environment in the form of pesticides, herbicides, BPA in plastics, hormones in meat, dioxins in dairy products, BC pill, and hormone disruptors in personal care products like paragons and phalates.  Elevated estrogen levels have been shown to stimulate estrogen dependant conditions like breast cancers, ovarian cancers and endometriosis.
Helpful tools to lower estrogen is to exercise to reduce fat mass, consume organic meat and avoid dairy, clean up your personal care products, and include tons of estrogen detoxifying ingredients like cruciferous vegetable such as kale, broccoli, brussels and cauliflower.
4) TESTOSTERONE - Testosterone is an anabolic, sex hormone and plays a role primarily in the development of male reproductive tissues as well as secondary sexual characteristics such as increased muscle mass and the growth of body hair.  Testosterone is also of course important for women looking to build lean muscle mass.
Unfortunately, elevated cortisol / stress levels cause testosterone to decrease which can often be due to overtraining, under-sleeping, poor nutrition and also an increase in age.  Additionally, something called the Aromatase enzyme converts testosterone to estrogen, further depleting free testosterone levels and increasing estrogen levels. In this case Aromatase inhibitors stop the production of estrogen in postmenopausal women. Aromatase inhibitors work by blocking the enzyme aromatase, which turns the hormone androgen into small amounts of estrogen in the body. Maca: Maca is a cruciferous plant that originates in Peru. Proponents say it has a host of benefits, including enhancing fertility and blocking estrogen in men. Although mama does contain many vitamins and nutrients, there’s little scientific evidence that it plays a role in regulating hormones. Grape seed extract: This extract has been shown to act as an aromatase inhibitor or estrogen blocker, in postmenopausal women at high risk for breast cancer. Men may experience similar benefits when taking it as a supplement.
5) INSULIN
Insulin lowers the sugar in your blood and provides your cells with immediate energy while the remaining sugar is stored in the form of glycogen in our liver and muscles and excess energy is converted and stored as fat for later energy use. This also makes it an anabolic hormone, which means to build/grow.  Eating too much sugar or carbohydrates (especially in the absence of protein, fat and fiber) can increase your levels of insulin too high, for too long, which may lead to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and perpetuates inflammatory conditions.
Manage your insulin levels by insuring you're not consuming more than you need per day. It is best to consume carbs around your workouts to help improve insulin sensitivity, and always try to pair your carb sources with fibre, fat, protein or all three to help blunt the impact of insulin and better manage blood sugar which will help with hunger and weight loss.
if you guys are looking for more specific information on how you can manipulate your hormones to achieve your ideal body composition, send me an email to marissalianacnp@gmail.com and I would be happy to help!
You can also visit the SHOP section of my website at www.marissaliana.com to browse my self-guided ebook programs which help balance hormones, improve weight loss and aid in digestive healing!
Kindest regards,
Marissa!.
                                             Until next time, stay well! Marissa

RAPE - RAPE - RAPE

By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”
  
RAPE - RAPE - RAPE
    I don’t know about you.  But I am tired of being raped by Global corporate.   No matter where you go.  You feel it inside you.
From Bell to your local church.   The ‘ME, ME’ mentality is so prevalent.
Look at the recent fiasco with GM.   GM to close down their main plant in Canada and we as good Canadians take it in the ass and nothing is done about it.
Bell, Rogers and many other corporate take away our jobs and offshore hire people to dictate and mandate how we the customers will pay and what services we are entitled to.  If we don’t like it. Tough luck for you.
Is this customer service?   Is this how the world should be.   Corporations not caring about their clients as they base their profit not on customer service but on the bottom line.  Knowing that due to the sheer populations number.  Loosing a few does not really mean anything to them.
Let’s go back to GM recent announcement.  The day of the announcement the line up of political hypocrites flooded television screens.   Out raged and making all kinds of empty promises.
The next day.. .much like a storm.... No one gave a shit.
Like really!  I can understand the municipal government not doing anything about it.  They are a bunch of incompetents.  They rather jockey for where they are going to sit during the new council term...then dealing with a real serious issue like the major industry closing.  Then you have the Provincial circus.   The ‘ME’ mentality reigns supreme....  What are we left with.
The Feds!  The Feds are so wound up with handing out tax dollars to refugees that the closing of GM is like... Who is GM.    We have a Prime Minister that is nothing short of a flag in the wind to social outcry.  
I wonder in all this where is the Union?   The Union President talked big.... talking about meeting with the Prime Minister... what they hell is that going to accomplish them... playing scrabble with the Prime Minister... you may be laughing... but really... it be just as productive to talk to a Prime Minister that clearly does not care.
In most countries an announcement like this would produce a general strike across all unionized industry.  People would take to the streets.  Major protests would follow.   Canada must be the only country in the world that would not dare think to call all unions across the country to unite and shut the country down until the Federal Government came up with a solid proposal to keep GM open.
No instead our Prime Minister is playing royalty in Argentina, kissing Trump ass.
I call on the Union to resolve this.  I call on the Union President to show some balls and stop this corporate raping of our jobs.  Enough is enough.
In Canada we would not dare unite and walk off the job... Hell, even though we feel for our brothers and sisters... ‘i can’t afford to walk off the job at $30 dollars an hour’.    The Union President would not dare call an illegal strike... After all he is making well over $250,000 a year and can’t afford possibly going to jail...   Plus it is to cold to be out protesting...  What about the insurance liability if someone gets injured...  LIKE REALLY FOLKS...  How about growing some balls and putting aside the ‘ME, ME, FIRST MENTALITY’.  Have we not learned from WWII that it does not affect me so I will do nothing MENTALITY is the first step to you being next.
I call on the Unions to unite and call all their people off the job.  Force the government to act and to take action NOW.   Today it is GM closing.  Tomorrow it may be where you work.  If no one is going to help workers in a place like GM. Do you think for a moment anyone will give a shit at the place you are working.   Let’s put an end to this raping of our people.

Big mistake for Mueller to indict Jerome Corsi

Big mistake for Mueller to indict Jerome Corsi
By Larry Klayman
There is an old expression: What goes around comes around! In the context of my client Dr. Jerome Corsi – a 72 year-old, vibrant, renowned and distinguished conservative journalist, investigative reporter and accomplished New York Times best-selling author now in the cross-hairs of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's "witch hunt" to take down President Donald J. Trump – should Mueller and his prosecutorial comrades indict the good doctor, they will have made a huge mistake.

Unlike other subjects or targets of Mueller's runaway investigation, Dr. Corsi does not labor from the near-universal notion that one has to play "nicey nice" with the special counsel to escape unjust prosecution. Indeed, the president himself, at least from a legal perspective, notwithstanding his daily tweets, apparently has been counseled to effectively roll over to Mueller. With the "advice" of his lawyers, The Donald has produced over a million documents and somehow got bamboozled to now submit written "interrogatory" responses to the special counsel, answers that, when compared by Mueller to what others have testified to, could put the president in greater jeopardy by way of a so-called "perjury trap." If I were in Trump's shoes, I would have to say to my lawyers a la Laurel and Hardy, "A fine mess you have gotten me into now!"

I have been asking myself over the last year and a half why the president's lawyers have not directly challenged Mueller's mandate and the unconstitutionality of his appointment in federal court and attempted to have him removed. Save for Andrew Miller, a friend of target Roger Stone, no one thus far has taken this route, and the courts are unlikely to give much attention or credence to a lonely third-tier witness, despite what this crucial issue deserves. But if President Trump had directed his attorneys to take the matter all the way to the Supreme Court, there would have been a good chance the "conservative majority" might have shown Mueller an exit stage left.

Also, puzzling to me is why Trump's lawyers have not gone on the counteroffensive by bringing suit for the illegal surveillance against the president, his staff and his family. This would have been a no-brainer, but then again the president's ego-driven establishment lawyers seem to have been mostly fixated on cable news appearances, rather than taking strong legal action.

So along comes, by the divine grace of the Father and his Son, my esteemed client, a true American hero, Dr. Corsi, who has the "cajones" to stand up to the treachery of Mueller and his conflicted and venomous leftist/Democratic prosecutorial staff. Mueller offered Dr. Corsi what the special counsel in his infinite arrogance considered a sweetheart plea deal if he lied and falsely ratted out Roger Stone and President Trump with regard to alleged Russian collusion, but my client stood his ground in self-defense and told the special counsel to stick it where the sun don't shine. While not equating Dr. Corsi to Jesus, let's not forget how He told the Romans to do the same thing.

In so doing, in the mold of Clint Eastwood's famous line "make my day," Corsi effectively dared Mueller and his political hack prosecutors to indict him, in the process also instructing me and my co-defense counsel, David Gray, to prepare a criminal complaint against the special counsel. This complaint, to be filed with Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and the heads of the Office of Professional Responsibility and Inspector General of my alma mater, the U.S. Department of Justice, will set forth the crimes of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and witness intimation, among other felonies, committed by the special counsel and his staff, as well as his spokesperson, Peter Carr, and others in his office, who have furthered the criminal leaks of grand jury information not just about Dr. Corsi, but a myriad of the putative and now actual defendants. Stay tuned for this filing this Monday, which will ask for Mueller's removal and professional discipline and much more by way of criminal prosecution for him and his accomplices.


The complaint also will address the unethical if not illegal conflicts of interest of the prosecutors, including Mueller himself, inherent in the ongoing "witch hunt."

And should the special counsel unwisely then seek to indict Jerome Corsi, on "Trumped up" and false charges, this will give my client, through our legal actions, a vehicle to challenge in court Mueller's legitimacy, or rather lack thereof, all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

All of this is long overdue! It is particularly overdue given the previously unchallenged march of Mueller and his collaborators in the now-Democrat controlled House of Representatives, who will use his phony work to ignite impeachment proceedings when the likes of new Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her band of rabid, leftist and anti-Trump comrades take control of the people's chamber in early January 2019.

I feel privileged and proud to represent Dr. Corsi not just because he is in a unique position to legally end Mueller's "reign of terror," but more importantly, because he is exemplary of the courage of our Founding Fathers, who stood up to another despot in 1776 and, through fearless action, formed a new nation. In so doing, our Founding Fathers and later our framers looked to God for divine guidance and provenance.

In rejecting the felonious plea proposal of Special Counsel Mueller and his prosecutorial staff just last week, which called for my client to lie under oath, Dr. Corsi invoked his godly belief that he was doing the right thing, not just for himself but the nation.

That is the true spirit of what it means to be an American – and for those other patriots who feel as if they out there in the wildness without legal recourse to save the republic, let's all take a lesson from this modern-day hero. Dr. Corsi's "last stand" brings hope to those citizens who believe in the rule of law and the Constitution!

Loveless

Direct Answers
from Wayne & Tamara
Loveless
I am a 45-year-old woman married to her second husband. In February he told me he has been unhappy for a long time and wanted his freedom.
This was prefaced by my finding email of a more than friendly nature from more than one woman. I confronted him. He said he was just "having fun" and "a lot of these women think they are in love with me."
I had a hysterectomy in January, and while home recuperating, I happened to find the email. After that there was no turning things around.
I got him to go to a marriage counselor one time. He told numerous half-truths about our married life, then left in a hurry saying he didn't need another appointment.
We live in a split-level home. He moved his things downstairs, but he hasn’t slept there. At first, he said he came upstairs because he heard me crying and couldn't stand it. No sex, but we sleep together like always, most nights wrapped around each other.
We are also having a bad time financially, though I tried my hardest to remedy that. We are selling our house, and I put money down on a mobile home for myself. He wants to live separately. Two months ago he purchased a ticket to Las Vegas, for himself, to go have a good time.
I think the reality of getting a place of my own has affected him, but there has been no overt move toward reconciliation. He hasn't even looked for a place yet.
He knows I love him. I tell him at least once a day. But he has a separate checking account and post office box. He sold his Lexus and is driving a junker. He spends most of his time at home on the computer. I no longer see his contacts because he uses his laptop.
Our house is going on the market next week. He’s leaving town for four days and leaving the cleaning and yardwork to me. He has offered to help me move, pay for my car, and not divorce me because I would lose his insurance coverage. So here we are. I still have hope in my heart that he will come to his senses before it is too late. I’ve tried being strong, and begging and pleading. Oh, he also says it is not me, it is him. What are your thoughts on this mess?
Wendie
Wendie, when he says it’s him believe him. He is confessing that his feelings for you are not strong enough to keep him in your marriage. He is so certain of that, he won’t let some counselor try to change his mind.
It’s simply the way he feels. You can’t talk people out of their feelings. If you could, they could talk you out of yours. Who is more in the right? You for wanting him to stay? Or him for admitting, once you caught him, that he is looking for someone else to be in love with? You can’t be happy forcing a man to stay against his will. There must be a connection both ways.
People want to blame the internet, Facebook and dating sites for breaking up relationships. All the internet did was shine a light on all the people in broken relationships looking for the real deal.
There is no begging and pleading in love. That’s adversarial. Though you are willing to settle for his physical presence over love, if he doesn’t love you, he is not present. So, what’s the point?
Wayne & Tamara
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Remedies to Prevent Death from AAA

 The Doctor Game

By W. Gifford-Jones M.D.
Remedies to Prevent Death from AAA

          Ask anyone about AAA and they will immediately think of the American Automobile Association. But in this case it stands for abdominal aortic aneurysm.  Sir William Osler once remarked, “There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.” He could have added that it’s a lethal disease, so prevention is better than cure.              

          Every year over 20,000 North Americans die from a ruptured aorta. Albert Einstein, the physicist who expounded the Theory of Relativity, and Lucille Ball, the TV star that made us laugh, both died of AAA.

          So, what causes the aorta, about the size of a garden hose, the largest artery in the body, to rupture?

          Getting a little stiff in various parts of our body is one of the problems of aging. But arterial stiffness, known as hardening of arteries, is particularly hazardous when it happens to the abdominal aorta. A sudden rupture can result in death in a few minutes. And studies show that about 5 percent of men over age 65 have some degree of AAA. It’s also five times more common in males than females.

           Sir William Osler, Professor of Medicine at McGill, John’s Hopkins, and Oxford University, remarked that, “It’s good to be born with good rubber.” In effect, to have soft, elastic, arteries that expand and contract with each beat of the heart.

          But as we age arteries often become rigid, resulting in hypertension, heart attack, stroke and rupture due to an aneurysm. The cause is arterial calcification which can affect the aorta, coronary arteries and valves of the heart.

          To reduce the risk of calcification it’s important to block its penetration into arteries as soon as possible. Several studies show that people with a higher intake of vitamin K2 have less risk of arterial calcification.

          But calcium is also an essential mineral to sustain life. In fact, without sufficient calcium we could not maintain the electrolyte balance needed for the normal rhythm of the heart.

          In a healthy body, 99 percent of calcium is stored in bone where it provides structural support. The amount of calcium allowed into the blood stream is strictly controlled.  

          Dr. Dennis Goodman, cardiologist and Director of Integrative Medicine at New York University, says that “Ignoring vitamin K2 is dangerous. Few are aware of how K2 aids bone health, but even fewer know how it helps cardiovascular health.”

          The great risk is that a deficiency of K2 increases the risk that calcium will be deposited in the aorta. These calcium deposits weaken the wall, increasing the risk of rupture and sudden death.

          A Dutch study of 4,600 men aged 55 and older showed that a high intake of vitamin K2 decreased the risk of aortic calcification by an amazing 52 percent.

          Since K2 is not easy to obtain in the diet, various supplements are available. For instance, K2 drops also contain vitamin A and D as all three are needed for bone health. And as we age, vitamin A also helps to improve night vision.

          What is not mentioned in most studies is that a combination of vitamin C and lysine also strengthens the wall of the aorta and other arteries. This helps to decrease the risk of aortic rupture, coronary attack and stroke. Pills of vitamin C and lysine are effective. But for those who dislike swallowing large numbers of pills  Medi-C Plus and other brands of powdered C along with vitamin K2 Plus A and D drops are available at Health Food Stores.                                         

          Pathologists have known for years that arteries are soft and flexible in youth. But with age, calcification occurs in the soft tissues of the body, particularly arteries. So one secret for longevity is to keep calcium in bone where it belongs, and out of the aorta, coronary arteries and those in the brain where it can prematurely end life.

          Osler was right. It’s good to be born with good rubber. But if this doesn’t happen, vitamin K2 along with high amounts of vitamin C and lysine, is the way to keep arteries elastic and increase longevity.

I TOLD YOU SO

Logic
By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”
  
I TOLD YOU SO
    For those that followed me through the Mayoral candidacy race would note that I been harping this for some time...GM IS LEAVING.... AM I THE ONLY ONE WITH EYES OPEN?   Our municipal government has failed us.
In a news report our beloved Mayor was quoted as saying: “ Oshawa Mayor John Henry said he was shocked by news that broke on Sunday that General Motors may be closing its Oshawa plant. “Everyone knew there was an issue with product, but that’ not out of the ordinary they’re always looking for product,” said Henry, but he added that the company has made millions of dollars in investments in its Oshawa plant in the last two years.”
Like really dude... what kind of a community leader are you?   GM went from 30,000 workers to 2,500 and he did not find that  OUT OF THE ORDINARY.  The man is a total incompetent.   GM has been tearing down its south plant for the past 2 years and HENRY has sat on his hands and done nothing. 
He should have planned ahead for the obvious.   Now it happened and Henry says he is shocked....  Shocked would be someone kicking him in the nuts as he lies to the people.
There is nothing shocking about GM announcement.  
I say kudos to GM for picking the perfect time for the announcement.   The old City of Oshawa council in my opinion failed the people of Oshawa by not preparing for the closure.  The new council made up of mostly have beens and wonna be’s....   GM is getting away with murder.
To top off that we have a Mayor that has a mentor, the former Mayor and now Regional Chair.  The man responsible for failing the people of Oshawa to prepare for such an economic catastrophe.  One has no clue where GM is the other pretend to know.  Carter leadership is weak and without backbone to deal with such major economic impact to the region. It appears that Oshawa rewards incompetence.      I am not a politician.  I am a business person and I operate five years ahead of the game. Under my administration. I would have mobilized City Staff under my direction to aggressively work on getting the City infrastructure up to par to attract major business and industry to Oshawa.   I would have been careful of cardboard type development much like the ones spreading like a wild fire north of Durham College.
I would have made sure that GM was on my short leash.   Up to date.  City council feared the loosing of GM.  GM in its corporate arrogance treats City elect including our Mayor as insignificant.  Dogs with no bite.
Under my administration.   I would have made sure that GM paid for all the environmental problems they have cause.   As soon as they announced the closure of the plant. I would have filed a class action suit including the Union for 20 Billion dollars.
I would ask for damages GM has cause over the years to Oshawa environment.
I would ask for damages GM has caused the people of Oshawa for duress of plant closures.
I would ask for damages GM is causing the local economy and it’s affiliated industries.
I would ask for damages to our city image and reputation.
But wait our newly elected council.  Will be to involved on issues like... council meeting protocol or who sits where. I say, make them pay.  Hit them where it hurts.  Why should the people of Oshawa suffer.  Do we not suffer enough knowing many of us will be out of work.   Who will pay for the environmental mess GM leave us in?   I say slap a law suit now.  I say freeze all their equipment and operation in retribution of the billions the Feds gave them.  I say enough of the walking on egg shells and demand what is ours.  Corporation need to learn respect of the communities they silently rape and pillage. In 2022 remember there is an option.  Joe Ingino

Bombs the result of breakdown in justice system?

Bombs the result of breakdown in justice system?
By Larry Klayman
No one condones violence. Indeed, I have always condemned it, which is why I conceived of and then founded both Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, to peacefully and legally enforce the rule of law against a corrupt government and legal system. It's why I have for over 25 years brought hard hitting cases and citizens grand juries to enable We the People to mete out justice the right way. But I have continually cautioned that the breakdown in our justice system, from the courts, to our Justice Department and its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), coupled with leftist calls for violence and actual violence via radical vigilante groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, funded by the likes of George Soros and supported by the likes of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder and many Hollywood actors such as Robert De Niro, Madonna, and a host of other leftist "beautiful" people in influential Tinseltown, would someday trigger an all out civil war between left and right.

It was only a matter of time until some reactive and unhinged people on the far right – or far left as the current bombing attempts may be part of a "set up" to blame President Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party in the lead up to the November 6, 2018, mid-term elections – fired the final shot that would trigger this war. This, regrettably, as I have warned was going to happen at some point. And, while the bomb threats against Obama, the Clintons, Eric Holder, Maxine Waters, John Brennan, Joe Biden, George Soros, Robert De Niro, and Corey Booker (and counting) cannot be justified under any circumstances, it is likely the frustration if not hopeless desperation among committed extremists which caused them.

While it has always been bad, the leftist media's inquisition against the president we duly elected to "Make America Great Again," coming after decades of failed Democrat and frankly Republican rule with the exception of former President Ronald Reagan, coupled with inaction by our current soon to be "shown the door" Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the crimes of his current and former corrupt political hacks at the department and the FBI such as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, James Baker, and of course Special Counsel Robert Mueller, obviously lit the fuse.

Notwithstanding that elite establishment criminals such as the Clintons and the cavalcade of others listed above are "above the law," with judges in our court system generally unwilling to go against the persons who put them on the bench, and you have a volatile situation.

But what also has fanned the flames of revolution, dangerously domestic terrorist style, is the profiteering and opportunistic actions of some in the so called conservative media. The best example is some of the prime time hosts on Fox News, who each day and night peddle false hope to the American people that justice is just around the corner. The most extreme and obvious example is Sean Hannity, who each night, with virtually the same "groupified guests," talk of major new developments that will finally end our dual system of justice and hold the likes of Hillary Clinton, James Comey and Robert Mueller accountable to the rule of law. There is only so much of this that any sincere and committed patriot can take before literally throwing up. While offering this warmed over babble may boost Fox News' ratings and advertising dollars, at some point, now the present, in the words of Popeye "enough is enough and enough is too much!"

The American people, while perhaps mildly enjoying the entertainment value of all of this, are fed up to the hilt. They want action instead of false hope!

And, what makes matters even worse are public interest watchdogs, such as the group which I founded, Judicial Watch, using their millions of dollars in resources doing little more than Freedom of Information Act requests, uncovering documents showing corruption, but doing little else. This may get Tom Fitton on television, but it does not bring about justice, as this head of Judicial Watch, who is not a lawyer, then implores if not begs the so called government to take action. But the citizenry know that this is a cop out; there is little to no justice that will be meted out by either the Justice Department, or the hapless fools in Congress that we call senators and congressmen. They too generate meaningless headlines to get their faces on the likes of Fox News, raising money for their political campaigns, and then being reelected to carry on their march to irrelevance at taxpayers' expense.

And the straw that broke the back of any respect among the people for Congress proved to be the now Justice Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. To call this a dog and pony show of hypocrisy, showboating and deceit from all political quarters – overwhelming by the corrupt leftist Democrat ones – is way too kind to describe the outrages that we all witnessed and were forced to endure and swallow.

So there you have it! A total breakdown of our justice system, coupled with the radical leftist media and rabid Democrats running interference for the likes of the Obamas, Clintons, and the other criminals who act as if and in reality have been above the law. Add our generally worthless judiciary, all appointed by the same people they are encharged to hold accountable, along with our corrupt Justice Department and FBI, and some in the opportunistic conservative media led by Fox News and its minion hosts, and the nation has gone beyond the boiling point!

Freedom Watch and I, and our staff, are striving to bring about real justice through our hard hitting cases and citizen grand juries which seek much more than just documents, but prosecutorial accountability. Indeed I am the only lawyer in American history to have a president, not surprisingly Bill Clinton, ruled by a court, before one of the few courageous judges, the Honorable Royce C. Lamberth, to have committed a crime.

But if our nation is not to be torn apart at its seams, this is not enough! I abhor and condemn the attempted bombings that occurred and continue to multiply this week against Democrats and other leftists like Robert De Niro. But I have warned the American people for a long time that if they did not demand and participate in meting out true justice for our nation's corrupt elite establishments, that a real violent war was inevitable. It appears that sadly we may finally have come to this point!

My Experience with adrenal fatigue.

Healthy Eating
from Marissa Liana
 Certified Nutritional Practitioner/Health Coach
My Experience with adrenal fatigue.
‘A constant state of fight or flight.’
   Fatigue and insomnia, digestive tract upsets, irritability and anxiety, prefer being alone, fluctuating blood pressure that is sometimes too low, perfectionist tendencies, difficulty relaxing, cravings for salt, head, neck and shoulder tension, loss of hair, and diminished sex drive.  These are all symptoms of adrenal fatigue and what I experienced roughly 2 years ago when I was in the midst of my near adrenal burn out. What was most concerning for me was the rate at which my hair was shortening, my intense episodes of random anxiety, my inability to properly digest my food and my frequent insomnia. These are the symptoms of ADRENAL FATIGUE, or more bluntly, adrenal BURNOUT. 
So what exactly is adrenal fatigue?
The adrenals are glands that produce stress hormones such as cortisol, adrenaline, and norepinephrine in response to stress. The adrenals also produce aldosterone which helps regulate blood pressure. The adrenal cortex also releases small amounts of male and female sex hormones. Norepinephrine increases heart rate and blood pressure, triggers the release of glucose from energy stores so we have more glucose as energy in the blood during times of stress, increases blood flow to skeletal muscle, reduces blood flow to the gastrointestinal system, and inhibits gastrointestinal motility. This is why you can not DIGEST FOOD properly when you are in a state of stress and may experience ongoing constipation. Adrenaline from the adrenals triggers our body’s fight or flight response.
If there are constant demands of stress placed on the body including physical (too much exercise!), mental, emotional, environmental, even dietary stress, this keeps our body in a constant state of “fight or flight” while releasing an excess amount of adrenocortical hormone into the blood stream. If the stress persists, this results in exhaustion of the adrenal glands glands. Many people also experience either significant weight gain (espeically around the mid section) or significant weight loss during periods of adrenal fatigue. This is due to the imbalances in blood sugar and cortisol in the body.
So what can you do if you think you are on the verge of adrenal burnout?
1) LIFESTYLE ADJUSTMENTS MUST ALWAYS be #1 priority. You can take all the vitamins and adaptogenic herbs in the world and still be adrenally fatigued if you don’t remove as many stressors from your life as possible. Remember, stressors can be physical, dietary, emotional and environmental.
Stress management techniques such as mediation, adequate sleep, mindfulness and moderate exercise, less often until adrenal balance is restored will also help. 2) Next, include adrenal supporting nutrients. These include vitamin C, B5, potassium, B12, vitamin E, and choline. I recommend a high quality multivitamin as opposed to supplementing with these individual nutrients to avoid imbalances. 3) DIET - Remove refined carbs and sugars. These negatively impact the adrenals, as do caffeine, nicotine, alcohol and sugar.*  4) Include adaptogenic herbs such as ashwagandha, Rhodiola and maca to increase the body’s resistance to stress, lower cortisol and nourish the adrenals.  If you're looking for help to create a diet and supplement plan that nourishes your adrenals, I would be happy to help! Send me an email at marissalianacnp@gmail.com today :).
                                             Until next time, stay well! Marissa

Extreme Sport

Direct Answers
from Wayne & Tamara
 
  I began seeing a man three years ago. We’ve gone through two breakups. Each time he realized he was not ready to give me the commitment he knew I wanted. But each time we resumed our relationship, things have been on a deeper level and more committed than before.
Last spring, he called when I had decided it was time to move on, though I knew in my heart with him was where I wanted to be. We attended family functions, went on vacations, and spent weekends with our children from previous marriages.
He says after two failed marriages he is not sure he is capable of having a successful marriage. He believes he is supposed to spend the rest of his life alone. And he accepts that.
At times he says he enjoys the things we do together, feels a connection between us, and is amazed how we are able to communicate. On my part, I feel a level of comfort and security when I am with him that I never experienced before. I can easily imagine a satisfying future spending the rest of my life with him. Here’s the question. If he’s concluded he’s supposed to be alone, am I a fool to stick around? Should I hope he realizes the tremendous possibilities we have to offer each other?
Part of me wants to believe it’s just his fear talking, and he will realize our true potential. But I don’t want to be naïve.
Ingrid
Ingrid, he is walking the knife’s edge. He says just enough of what you want to hear, just enough to placate you, just enough to keep you engaged. He has you hoping, can I win him over?
On the other side of the knife’s edge is, “I don’t want to marry her.” He is walking the blade perfectly, satisfying himself without losing his balance.
What do people say who live on the edge? It is thrilling. It is like skiing a black diamond ski run. Fresh powder and danger even for the most experienced. Fall, and you drop a quarter of a mile before you stop. He is living the dream. His dream. He is happy and content. A victory for you, whether it’s marriage to him or finding someone who loves you, would be his defeat. Either of your wins is his loss.
You want to stack up minutiae as if they are something. We get along, we vacation, our connection is deeper… On a scale, those are feathers compared to the lead weight of your past breakups and his refusal to marry you. You deserve to marry a man who wants you as badly as you want him.
Saying “I will be alone for the rest of my life” is the one lie he is telling. He is likely to be alone in the future the same way he is alone with you now. Men like this will never be alone. They will always find a woman who sees their “potential.” For them it’s a sort of sport, like running with the bulls at Pamplona. Only he will be pursued by women in white dresses pleading, marry me, marry me.
The two failed marriages are the excuse you cannot change or satisfy. He has the ecstasy of living on the knife’s edge, while you are afraid to take a leap at finding the man for you.
Wayne & Tamara
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Extreme Sport

What Can a Psychiatrist Tell Us About Vitamin D?

 The Doctor Game

By W. Gifford-Jones M.D.
What Can a Psychiatrist Tell Us About Vitamin D?
              Winter’s coming, so how much vitamin D do we need? How much time do you have to spend in the sunlight to obtain adequate amounts? How does obesity affect the dosage? How many diseases can be prevented by adequate amounts of this vitamin? And what can a psychiatrist tell us about this vital vitamin?

          Years ago I reported that Dr. Catharine Gordon, a professor of pediatrics at The Harvard Medical School, tested the vitamin D levels of teenagers 11 to 18 years of age. She found that 14 percent of these adolescents were deficient in vitamin D. Today about 30 percent of adults are low in D.

          Dr Glenn Braunstein, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, said her research was a wake-up call. It showed it’s not only the house bound, or the elderly in nursing homes, that are getting insufficient sunlight.

          In the 19th century, large numbers of children suffered from rickets due to a lack of sunlight. To resolve this problem children with rickets were taken for long voyages on what was called ”Boston’s Floating Hospital” to expose them to the health benefits of sunshine.

          Today we know that adequate amounts of vitamin D are needed in the bowel to absorb calcium and keep bones strong. Vitamin D also acts on bone cells to release calcium and maintain normal blood levels of this important mineral.

          Can a lack of vitamin D protect against infection? You would expect to get this answer from an infectious disease expert, not a psychiatrist. But Dr. John Campbell, a U.S. psychiatrist, noted that when the 2005 flu epidemic struck the Hospital for the Criminally Insane, the infection spared those patients who were taking vitamin D!

          Another researcher, Dr. Mitsuyoshi  Urasima, Professor of Epidemiology, in Japan, reports in the American Journal of Nutrition, that patients given 1,200 IU of D were less likely to develop influenza than those not receiving it.

          Dr, Jo Ann Manson, Professor of Medicine at The Harvard Medical School,  reports strong evidence that high blood levels of vitamin D protect against colon cancer.

          To get still another opinion I interviewed Dr. Andrew Saul, Editor-In-Chief of the Orthomolecular News Service, a world authority on vitamins. Saul says that colon cancer is clearly related to vitamin D deficiency. He adds that inadequate vitamin D levels are also associated with ovarian cancer. And that research by the National library of Medicine reveals there are 300 papers on how vitamin D helps to fight prostate and breast cancer.

          Dr. Michael Holick, at Boston University, an authority on vitamin D, believes vitamin D’s greatest strength is its role in fighting cancer. He says studies show that people living in higher latitudes who get less sun exposure have an increased risk of dying from almost all types of cancer, particularly breast, colon, prostate and skin cancer.

          Since we’re approaching winter, I asked Dr. Saul about Seasonal Affective Disorder, a condition when people feel “psychologically down” during the winter months. Saul says that vitamin D acts as a mood stabilizer. He recommends vitamin D to fight this disorder.

          In the book Saul authored with Dr, Abram Hoffer, “Orthomolecular Medicine For Everyone” he reports that a lack of vitamin D is also associated with psoriasis which can be treated with topical vitamin D. And that a deficiency of D is also linked to diabetes, heart failure and hypertension.     

          But don’t most of us receive enough vitamin D from the sun? We get some, but not as much as you think. It depends on where you live. For instance, if you live at a latitude above 35 degrees north which includes Boston, Philadelphia and all of Canada, vitamin D production from sunlight ceases from October to the end of February. Due to the angle of the sun’s rays you could stand outside naked all day and not receive enough sunshine to produce vitamin D!

          What is the right dosage?  The answer is not easy as there is some debate. Obese people need more vitamin D as fat holds onto it making it less available to the body. Dr. Saul claims 10,000 IU daily are safe. Others suggest a dosage of between 1,000, to 3,000 IU daily. So check with your own doctor.
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Those Dam Russians...

Logic
By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”
  
Those Dam Russians...
  The headlines read..... “Trudeau must come clean about Russian interference in 2015 Canadian election: Conservatives.”
Really..... Like, I don’t know how many times I read that....I keep saying.... LIKE REALLY.
The Russians interfering with Canadian politics....   As if Canadian politics are not messed up enough on their own?
If I ever read ‘fake news’... this has to take the cake.... As if the Russian even know where Canada is or care for that matter...
Canadian politics is so messed up that we could actually have Russian confused on who to back...
The Liberals are no different then that of the Conservatives.  The little engine that could NDP’rs are so desperate that they are the gray line between the Cons and Libs.
It must the only country in the world that it really does not matter who wins.... Nothing will change. 
The cost of living will continue to go up...our dollar keep sliding and jobs keep going south on us... Why would the Russians want to waste time in Canadian politics.
My understanding is that any government entity is only interest in another country political condition is if there are any gains to be made by doing so.
Most countries collect intel from one another to keep tab on the local economies and or any military movements.
Canada the cocktail of ethnic make up... has lost it’s unity.... If it is not for the Quebecois holding small pockets of culture, intellectual reservation and preservation of tradition.   Canada, has become a stew of cultures that can’t be defined other then called foreign.
Then the question... why would the Russians want to waste their time and resources on manipulating political outcomes?
We can stretch that thought even to the U.S.    Why would the Russian want to mess with American politics and if so... Why would the help the Republicans win?
Trump has turned that country on it’s head...   The Russians would want someone in power with more of their political inclination... not a guy like Trump.
CNN and it’s ever ending wet dream of impeaching Trump.... will go to any lengths to drag this out... As for the U.S. Russian investigation...That has to be the worlds biggest joke.
Like really...
It is a modern day witch hunt that serves no purpose other than to deviate from the real world issues.
Issues like the China move to take over the south seas and control shipping, industry and commerce coming in and out of the region.
Russia messing with Canadian politics.....   I can’t stop shaking my head at the stupidity of the notion.
Personally I think we need to restructure Canadian politics and take out the financial factor out of it.   Eliminate the factor that only the wealthy amongst us can afford to run for office.  We must eliminate and educate on the value of serving the people of the land.    We must re-allign our view when it comes to how we treat all our people.   Not some.  We need to put priority in building Canada.

Joe Ingino

Latest outrage from the D.C. swamp

Latest outrage from the D.C. swamp
By Larry Klayman
It never ends! The so-called Washington, D.C., establishment swamp grows murkier and more deadly with every passing hour! Needless to say, it is on the verge of swallowing up the vision and creation of our Founding Fathers. The federal judiciary is a major occupant of this swamp!

While I will get into this in depth in my weekly show on Radio America "Special Prosecutor with Larry Klayman," which airs each Sunday, and is podcast as well (go to www.freedomwatchusa.org for local listings and to hear my podcast), let us take a brief walk down memory lane of the corrupt judicial week that was.

First, "hot off the press," there is the ruling of the Honorable Timothy J. Kelly, incredibly granting a temporary restraining order in the lawsuit filed by CNN against the president and his staff for revoking the White House press pass of the "Communist/Clinton News Network's" Jim Acosta for improperly touching a White House female intern. Incredibly, and most tellingly, CNN was supported by Fox News, which increasingly has been moving left thanks to its new chiefs, the Murdoch sons, both of whom are dyed-in-the-wool liberals. (See Adriana Cohen, "Bill O'Reilly: Fox Has Gone to the Dogs," Boston Globe, Nov. 15.) More importantly is the sellout by this Trump-appointed Judge Kelly in ordering the president to give the vile Acosta back his press pass.

Not only is there clearly no First Amendment constitutional right to own a White House press pass – as CNN is free to send another, hopefully this time respectful reporter to cover the administration, among many other legal grounds for Kelly to have denied the CNN complaint – but this incredible ruling underscores what I have been preaching about the federal judiciary in particular for many years since I conceived of and founded Judicial Watch in 1994.

Put simply, the overwhelming majority of the jurists selected by both Democrat and Republican presidents are the compromised product of the establishments of both parties. They generally got their jobs by not ruffling feathers and not taking strong, principled positions. In the case of Kelly – a Trump appointee likely recommended to the president by Don McGahn, the former White House counsel and himself an establishment Republican who eventually was shown the door by The Donald, likely for his backstage collaboration with Special Counsel Robert Mueller – this is a jurist who not only lacks courage, but also is weak.

In a case I had before him recently, he ignored false testimony by the head of a prominent "conservative" public-interest group, mostly likely because to go against him could have harmed his standing in the conservative community. This person had submitted a sworn affidavit, under oath, attesting that he knew nothing about the underlying facts for a lawsuit I had filed, when testimony from a fellow board member later proved otherwise. The reason for this affidavit was so the head of the group could try to escape being questioned under oath about the case.

For a federal judge to look the other way to protect his own derriere was simply despicable, much less a violation of his oath of office to uphold the integrity of his own court and the justice system as whole.

But now Judge Kelly has gone a step further in revealing his true stripes; and they are not stripes of a judicial tiger. They are the stripes akin to the cowardly lion in "The Wizard of Oz." This is because not only does Kelly obviously want to keep his membership and "press pass" credentials in to the establishment "D.C. Swamp Club," but, like nearly all the judges I have encountered over the last 41 years of my legal practice, the jurist does not likely want to get on the bad side of a powerful media organization such as CNN, owned and operated by the mega Time Warner/ATT conglomerate. He obviously does not want this media conglomerate powerhouse, and its leftist competitors, to be trained on him.

Years ago when I was running Judicial Watch, I brought a libel suit against the Washington Post for having allegedly defamed me. As is true here, the District of Columbia Superior Court judge assigned to the case, sat on it for several years, only to later dismiss it, disingenuously claiming that the alleged defamation was a "close question" and that the benefit of the doubt had to go to the Post. After another several years of appeal, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed the dismissal, also citing a so-called "close question."
The bottom line is this: Judges are afraid to take on the media for fear that this will generate bad press for them down the line.
This is obviously not the way our judicial system should work, but it does show why the nation is going through an increasing downward spiral to a complete breakdown of ethics, morality and legality.

Judges are in principle our most important public servants, as they are not only empowered to protect We the People from not just the tyranny of the deep-state-controlled government, but also wrongs committed elsewhere. When they bail out, and not over Tokyo, and abdicate their judicial responsibilities to further their own cowardly skins, then the republic is in serious trouble.
And, the smaller lesson here is that even Republican-appointed jurists can be part of the problem, including the ones appointed, based on bad advice, by our chief law enforcement official, Donald Trump. With the growing and never-ending Mueller witch hunt and the the new reincarnated Nancy Pelosi-run House of Representatives, the president and his agenda, if not his longevity in office, are in serious jeopardy. Few have his back, even so called conservative jurists!
The days and months ahead will be fateful times for the survival our nation. Judges such as Timothy Kelly do not give us must cause to hope that the legal system is up to the task of protecting our constitutional democracy.
We the People, through citizens grand juries and other legal means, must, more than ever, rise up to save the nation. Go to www.freedomwatchusa.org to sign up for Freedom Watch's Justice League and our Judicial Selection Strike Force, designed to put principled judges on the bench. Please join the fight before it is too late!

WHY CALORIE COUNTING DOESN'T WORK - NOT ALL CALORIES ARE CREATED EQUAL.

Healthy Eating
from Marissa Liana
 Certified Nutritional Practitioner/Health Coach
WHY CALORIE COUNTING DOESN'T WORK - NOT ALL CALORIES ARE
CREATED EQUAL.
Are you counting calories but still not losing weight? It’s important to know that not all calories are created equal. Here’s why????
1 Nutrient density is not the same as calorie density. Nutrient density refers to the proportions of nutrients, specifically the vitamins and minerals that are contained in a food. Vitamins and minerals are considered essential nutrients because they are required to perform hundreds of roles in the body that keep us alive and healthy. They help strengthen our bones, boost our immune system, convert food into energy, repair muscle tissue, and increase rates of detoxification.
Too many people are eating calorie dense foods that lack nutrient density, which therefore sets their body systems up for failure. It is 100% possible to be over-fed and under-nourished.
2 Hormonal response of food. Carbohydrates, fats, and proteins all generate different hormonal responses in the body. Carbs increase insulin, the hormone responsible for fat storage. Proteins increase glucagon, which helps to burn/break down stored fuel sources including fat stores. Fats do not increase insulin, help to keep us full and cholesterol is actually needed for proper sex hormone balance (like estrogen and testosterone). The way food affects your hormones has a huge impact on your body composition and the way you look.
3 Food impacts your gut’s microbiome. In order to manage your weight, hunger and body composition, you must keep your healthy gut bacteria flourishing. Those who struggle with obesity actually have different microflora (good bacteria/probiotics) in their G.I tracts than those who are comparatively lean! Gut bacteria play a large role in extracting energy and nutrients from food. If your gut flora is compromised (from a diet high in refined carbs and processed food, diet low in fiber, diet lacking in raw, fermented foods) you are not probably utilizing your food for fuel and can carry excess weight. .
If you’re ready to start a meal plan that balances your gut, hormones and replenishes your nutrients, visit www.marissaliana.com or email me at marissalianacnp@gmail.com to set up a consult now.
                                             Until next time, stay well! Marissa